r/moderatelygranolamoms rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for almost hippies, which the rules describe as a place where all parents are welcome, not just moms. The name says moms but the rules explain the name was passed down and cannot be changed, and the mods ask members not to exclude non-moms from the space. The people here are parents who lean a bit natural or crunchy in their parenting choices but stay grounded, and the rules show they care a lot about kind conversation, safe medical discussion, and protecting children in public online spaces. This is a support and conversation community for parents, not a place built for businesses, which shapes everything else in this guide.

The rule that decides everything for a founder is “No spam or self promotion”, which bans promoting your own items for sale, promoting on behalf of your employer, referral links, and using the sub to collect data for market research, so there is no promotional lane here at all. “Good faith participation” is the rule that raises the stakes, because if your removed post was your only participation, or all your past participation looked similar, you get banned, so a single promotional post can end your account in this community. “No low effort posts” matters if you ever share anything, because images and article links need accompanying text that gives context, and broad or repetitive questions get removed too. “Don’t give or solicit medical advice” shapes any health adjacent conversation, since only studies, personal opinions, personal experiences, and what your own medical professional told you are allowed. “No Photos of Children” bans photos of children in any context, even with faces covered, because the sub is open to the public. “No vaccine dissuasion” and “Vaccine megathread” mean vaccine talk, including the Vitamin K shot, belongs in the weekly sticky and nobody may discourage vaccination. “Respectful conduct” sets the tone, with no clap backs, callouts, or pointed replies, and reports instead of arguments.

Honestly, the safest good post here is not a marketing post at all, it is genuine participation as a parent. Join conversations about the everyday choices this community exists for, share your own experience in your own words, and be useful without a link. If you share a link or an image, the rules require accompanying text that gives context, so write a real paragraph about why you are sharing it and what you took away from it, and keep that link non promotional. If you have a question, make it specific and fresh rather than broad or repetitive, because the mods remove questions that have already been answered at length in previous posts. If health comes up, frame everything as your personal experience or point to studies, never as advice. And remember the tone bar, be doubly kind, assume the best of what people say, and never get sharp with anyone in the comments.

The fastest way out is self promotion, because “No spam or self promotion” bans promoting your own items for sale, promoting on behalf of your employer, ads for home businesses, referral links, duplicate posts, bots, and using the sub to collect data for academic or market research purposes like survey links. The second fastest way out is a one and done account, because “Good faith participation” says that if your only participation was removed rule breaking content, or all your prior participation looked similar, you get banned. Photos of children are banned in any context under “No Photos of Children”, including faces covered or kids outside the shot, so never attach an image with a child in it. Medical advice is banned under “Don’t give or solicit medical advice”, so do not tell anyone what to do about a health question, and if you are a medical professional, word your response so it cannot be misconstrued as medical advice. Keep every vaccine and Vitamin K conversation inside the weekly megathread per “Vaccine megathread”, and never dissuade anyone from vaccinating per “No vaccine dissuasion”. Low effort posts get removed under “No low effort posts”, so no image or article link without context, no lazy polls, no broad repetitive questions. And keep your tone kind under “Respectful conduct”, because clap backs and callouts are not tolerated here.

The “Good faith participation” rule is the one that made me sit up, because it says you can be banned if the only participation you ever had was rule breaking content, which is exactly the pattern of a drive by marketer. I also love that the mods openly admit they would rename the sub to moderatelygranolaparents if the name had not been locked, it tells you they care more about who is in the room than the label on the door. No top posts were observed for this community, so treat every rule here as the whole map and go slow.