r/learnmachinelearning rules, stats, and what to post

This is a learning community for machine learning. The description says it is a space of learners and educators who want to ask questions, share resources, and grow together in understanding ML concepts. People here range from someone writing their first neural network to someone diving into transformers, so beginners and advanced learners both belong. The description also points people with other needs elsewhere, sending ML research to r/machinelearning, resume reviews to r/engineeringresumes, and ML engineers to r/mlengineering. That tells you the core of this room is learning and teaching, not hiring, not research papers, and not career admin.

Three rules decide everything here. “Be respectful” asks you to foster a positive learning environment and make everyone feel welcome, so a condescending or pushy tone will hurt you. “Share your content at most once per week” says you can share your works and achievements, but not spam, and the same content should appear at most once a week. “Post nothing that involves monetary transactions” is the strict one for founders, because it bans referral links, purely marketing content, marketing your paid online course, and soliciting services with offers of money.

A good post here teaches something or asks something. If you are a founder, the safest shape is a post that helps people learn, like a walkthrough of a concept, a lesson from building something, or a resource you made that is free and genuinely useful. You can share your own work and achievements, the rules allow it, but only once a week for the same content. Frame your post around what the learner gets, not what your product does. Ask questions too, because this is a community built around asking and answering. If your link is free, educational, and helps someone understand ML, it fits. If it exists to funnel people to a sale, it does not.

The clearest way to get removed here is money. Rule 3, “Post nothing that involves monetary transactions”, bans referral links, purely marketing content, marketing your paid online course, and soliciting services with offers of money. If your post exists to sell something, it does not belong. The second way is overposting. Rule 2, “Share your content at most once per week”, means repeating your own content inside a week is spam. The third is tone. Rule 1, “Be respectful”, asks for a positive learning environment where nobody is afraid to participate, so mocking beginners or arguing badly works against you.

What stands out to me is that the description itself routes people elsewhere, sending research to r/machinelearning, resume reviews to r/engineeringresumes, and working engineers to r/mlengineering. That tells me the moderators have thought hard about keeping this room focused on learning, so a founder who respects that focus will fit in fine. The once a week rule is generous by Reddit standards, but the money rule is absolute, so I would treat any link with a price tag attached as off limits here. I also have no top post titles to learn from in this community, which means I would start even more conservative than usual and watch what gets upvoted before sharing anything of my own.