r/MarketingAutomation rules, stats, and what to post

This community is an open discussion space for marketing automation, email marketing, and the benefits and qualities of different automation platforms. People come here to talk through automation topics or to ask questions about them. The description makes one thing very clear, and that is that advertising is not allowed. So the room is for marketers, founders, and anyone working with automation tools who wants genuine conversation, not a place to pitch.

There is one written rule here, and it is “Spam”. The moderator one-liner behind it says they remove spam to keep the focus on marketing automation discussions. On top of that, the public description states plainly that advertising is not allowed, so promotion is banned even though it is not spelled out as its own numbered rule. Between those two things, almost every marketing-adjacent post lives or dies on whether it looks like a genuine contribution or a promo.

Post real questions and real discussion about marketing automation and email marketing. If you are a founder, the safest shape is a question about a problem you are actually working on, like how to structure a workflow or which approach people use for a specific automation task. You can mention your own experience in plain words, but the post should stand on its own as something a marketer would want to answer. If you want to talk about a platform, frame it as a comparison or a question, not a pitch. Read the room first, since there are no observed top posts to model from, so start with the most helpful version of your post and let the discussion come to you.

Do not post any advertising, because the description says the community does not allow it and the policy brief confirms promotion is banned. Do not post spam of any kind, since that is the one written rule and the moderator one-liner says spam gets removed to keep the focus on discussions. Do not drop links that exist to send people somewhere else, because that reads as advertising even if you wrap it in words. Do not post a thinly disguised promo dressed up as a question, because the community exists for discussion and the moderators remove anything that is not that.

This is one of the strictest setups I have written about, because the community says no advertising right in its public description and the only written rule is “Spam”. There are no observed top posts to learn from either, so I would treat this as a room where you earn trust with plain questions before anything else. My honest read is that a helpful, specific question about a real automation problem will do far better here than any polished pitch ever could.