r/Leadership rules, stats, and what to post
Know the rules before you post. So easy grandma can do it.
- To post
- No minimum in the rules
- To comment
- No minimum in the rules
- Self-promotion
- Banned
- Links
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Promo risk
- High
- From the rules, not from removal counts
- Community age
- 17 years
- Since Sep 2009
About r/Leadership
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/Leadership: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.Checked from the r/Leadership rules on Reddit.
r/Leadership rules
4 rules, in the community's own words.
- 1
Posts must be related to the discussion of leadership
- The focus on the theme of success, inspiration, morality, critical thinking, and management are all very welcome.
- Posts that are not relevant to the topic at hand will be swiftly removed.
- 2
Don't self-promote
- Avoid engaging in any kind of self-promotion, such as directly sharing your blogs, videos, or online shop. This platform strictly prohibits such activities.
- Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, infamous for their excessive and undesirable marketing practices, may better suit your purposes.
- 3
Don't submit low-quality posts
- Confusing, sloppy, or brainless posts, and any containing NSFW material will be removed.
- Moderators reserve the right to use their discretion and remove any posts they consider unsuitable.
- 4
Don't ask for DMs, recruitment, or conduct surveys
- Abstain from requesting users to directly message you for any purpose, as it may come across as strange and inappropriate.
- This community is not designed for the purpose of recruiting prospective individuals.
- Refrain from conducting surveys by sharing links that aim to lure members into providing their personal information.
What to post in r/Leadership
What fits the room, and what gets removed.
Works well
- A written lesson from a real management mistake you made, told as a story with what you learned and no link anywhere.
- A question asking how experienced leaders handle a specific team situation, like giving hard feedback or losing a good person.
- A post on critical thinking or morality in leadership, such as how you decide between what is easy and what is right.
- A short reflection on what success means to you as a leader, written to invite discussion rather than to sell anything.
- A summary of a management idea in your own words, shared as a discussion starter with credit to the original thinker and no link to your own content.
Avoid
- Sharing a link to your own blog, video, online shop, or social media page, because the self-promotion rule says this is strictly prohibited.
- Asking people to message you directly for any purpose, since the rules call this strange and inappropriate.
- Posting a survey link that tries to collect personal information from members.
- Using the community to recruit people for a job, a project, or your company.
- Posting something vague, sloppy, or off topic that has nothing to do with leading people.
- Dropping a link with no real discussion around it, which reads as marketing and will get removed.
Best hours to post in r/Leadership
No pattern yet. r/Leadership does not have enough top posts from the last 90 days to name its best hours.
What r/Leadership Is For
This community is for discussing leadership. The public description talks about guidance and wisdom, a leader's stand, breaking walls, and uniting hands, so the tone is thoughtful rather than transactional. The rules say the focus on success, inspiration, morality, critical thinking, and management is all very welcome. The people posting here are interested in leading people well, whether that is managing a team, thinking through hard decisions, or learning what makes someone worth following.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
Four rules decide everything here. “Posts must be related to the discussion of leadership” means your post has to sit squarely on leadership, success, inspiration, morality, critical thinking, or management, or it gets swiftly removed. “Don't self-promote” is the hard one for marketers, because sharing your blogs, videos, or online shop is strictly prohibited, and the rule even suggests platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok may suit those purposes better. “Don't submit low-quality posts” removes anything confusing, sloppy, or brainless, and moderators keep discretion to remove anything they consider unsuitable. “Don't ask for DMs, recruitment, or conduct surveys” bans asking people to message you, recruiting members, and sharing survey links that lure people into giving personal information.
What To Post
A good post here is a genuine leadership discussion with no link and no pitch. Write about a real lesson from managing people, a hard decision you had to make, or a question about how to handle a team situation. Keep it on the themes the rules name, so success, inspiration, morality, critical thinking, or management. Make it well written and easy to follow, because sloppy or confusing posts get removed. If you are a founder, share what you learned about leading your team, not what you built, and let the discussion carry your credibility instead of a link.
What To Avoid
The fastest way to get removed is to post anything that smells like marketing. Do not share your blog, your video, your shop, or your social pages, because self-promotion is strictly prohibited here. Do not ask anyone to DM you, do not try to recruit people, and do not post survey links that collect personal information. Do not post something off topic either, because anything not about leadership gets swiftly removed. Finally, do not post anything sloppy or confusing, since low quality posts are removed and moderators have discretion to remove anything they find unsuitable.
A note from Anthony
What stands out to me is how blunt the self-promotion rule is. It does not just discourage promotion, it strictly prohibits it and even names other platforms as a better home for it, which tells you the people here have been burned by marketers before. I also notice there are no observed top posts in our data for this community, so I would treat it as a room where you earn trust slowly with one genuinely useful post rather than a place to test content. My honest read of the evidence is that this one is for learning and giving, not for launching.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog. Every guide is built from the community's own public rules and data, then checked by Rankhog's grounding audit before it goes live.
Common questions about r/Leadership
What subreddits are similar to r/Leadership?
Subreddits like r/Leadership are r/managers, r/Target and r/EngineeringManagers.
Can I share my blog post about management lessons?
No. The rule “Don't self-promote” strictly prohibits sharing your blogs, videos, or online shop, and the brief says platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok may suit you better.
Can I post here if I am a founder and not a manager?
Only if the post itself is genuinely about leadership, success, management, morality, inspiration, or critical thinking. The rule “Posts must be related to the discussion of leadership” is the gate, and moderators remove anything off topic.
Can I ask people to DM me for feedback on my product?
No. The rule “Don't ask for DMs, recruitment, or conduct surveys” bans direct message requests, recruiting, and survey links.
Are links allowed at all?
The rules do not state a position on links in general, so the safe read is that any link pointing back to your own stuff falls under self-promotion and should stay out.
Can I tell a story from my own experience running a team?
Yes, if you write it as a real leadership discussion with no link, no pitch, and no ask. It must fit the topic rules and be well written, because low quality posts are removed too.
Subreddits like r/Leadership
Other rooms for the same crowd.