r/OnTheTipOfMyTounge rules, stats, and what to post

This community exists for one simple job, helping people find a word that is stuck on the tip of their tongue. Someone posts a description of the word they cannot remember, and other people try to guess it. The public description says it plainly, the subreddit is either for help finding that right word, or guessing the word that the poster is trying to remember. So the room is full of two kinds of people, people hunting for a word and people who enjoy the puzzle of finding it for them. There are no published rules on the public rules page, which is unusual, but the moderator one-liner makes the expectation clear anyway, keep your posts relevant to finding or guessing words.

The only honest way to show up here is to take part in the actual game, finding or guessing words. If you genuinely have a word stuck in your head, describe it well, give the clues you remember, and ask for help. If you enjoy word puzzles, spend time guessing for other people and being useful in the comments. A founder can build real goodwill here just by being the person who finds the right word for someone. If you ever mention your own work, it should only happen naturally inside a conversation that is already about words, and only if it truly helps the person asking. The safest posture is to post nothing promotional at all and simply be a helpful member of the room.

There are no published rules to quote here, so the safest guide is the moderator one-liner, keep your posts relevant to finding or guessing words. Anything that is not a word hunt or a word guess is off topic by that standard. That means a post about your product, your blog, or your launch does not belong here, because it is not about finding or guessing a word. When the rules page is empty, the topic itself becomes the rule, so treat relevance as the line you cannot cross.

This is one of the friendliest ideas on Reddit, a whole room built around helping a stranger remember one word. The evidence shows no published rules at all, which I find refreshing, but the moderator one-liner makes the deal clear anyway, show up to find or guess words. If your marketing can survive that test, you probably do not need my guide.