r/NoStupidQuestions rules, stats, and what to post

This is a place where anyone can ask any question without feeling silly about it. The description says ask away, and it also carries an honest disclaimer, this is an anonymous forum so answers may not be correct. People come here with everyday questions, small confusions, and things they felt too embarrassed to ask somewhere else. The rules make it clear the community wants genuine questions asked in good faith and genuine answers written by real people. It is not a place to promote anything, settle a score, or test a joke on a crowd.

The big one for anyone doing marketing here is “No self-promotion, shilling or begging”, which bans trying to draw traffic to a product, video, podcast, or website by phrasing it as a question, and also bans asking for upvotes, handouts, or fundraising. If you answer questions instead, “Top level comments must contain a genuine human-written attempt at an answer” applies, and it bans joke answers, link-only answers, telling people to google it, and accounts using AI to generate answers, which get banned. “Please try searching the subreddit for your question first” matters because repeat questions get kept to a minimum and the wiki lists the ones that come up again and again. “No trolling or joke questions” and “No disguised rants, agenda posts or potstirring” remove joke posts, leading questions, and anything asked to push an agenda. “No medical advice questions” removes health queries, and “No illegal/unethical or disturbing subject matter” removes things like asking where to find pirated content. “Be Nice: Follow Reddiquette” sets the tone, so civil disagreement is fine but insults and personal attacks are not.

A good post here is a real question you actually want answered, asked in plain and neutral words. Before you post, search the subreddit and check the wiki, because repeat questions are discouraged. If you want to be useful as a founder, answer other people's questions with a genuine, human-written attempt at an answer, and if a link helps, include a summary of it or answer the question yourself instead of just dropping the link. Keep every question free of agenda, free of a pitch, and free of a rant hiding inside it. If your question touches health, ask a doctor instead of this forum.

The fastest way to get removed is to phrase a promotion as a question, like asking what tool people use when the answer is your own product. Asking for upvotes, birthday wishes, handouts, or fundraising support falls under the same rule. If you answer, do not drop a link and leave, do not say google it, and do not use AI to write your answer, because accounts doing that get banned. Do not repost a question that has been asked many times before, do not post medical advice questions, and stay away from suicide topics or questions about sexual assault, which belong with the dedicated resources the rules point to. No joke or troll questions, no memes, no song lyrics as a title, no illegal or disturbing subject matter, and no rants or agenda posts dressed up as questions. Insults, slurs, and bigotry are not permitted at any time.

The rule that bans accounts using AI to generate answers is the one I would tattoo on my forearm if I could, because it tells you exactly what kind of answers this room wants. I also love that the description admits answers may not be correct, which is a rare bit of honesty and a good reminder to be humble if you reply here. There are no observed top posts for this community yet, so read the wiki of repeat questions before you post and let that be your map.