r/PowerBI rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for people who use Power BI, Microsoft's data visualization and reporting tool. The description says it covers news, resources, and answers to user questions, so the room is mostly practitioners helping each other. People post here to ask how to build something, to share knowledge about the product, and to discuss integrated partner products. The rules also make clear this is not an official Microsoft support channel, so it is a peer community, not a help desk run by the company.

Three rules decide whether a marketing adjacent post survives here. “Keep it safe, friendly, fun and productive” sets the tone and includes the key ratio: about 1 in 10 of your contributions should be your own content. “Help and support the community” defines spam as excessive self promotional content without participation, meaning answering questions, offering guidance, and joining discussions. “No solicitations” is the strictest one: contributions must be free of promotional content, sales activity is prohibited, and that ban covers market research, customer discovery, and paid product validation, in posts and in unsolicited direct messages.

A good post here teaches something or solves a real problem, with no string attached. If you are a founder, the winning move is to answer questions, share a technique you genuinely figured out, or explain how you solved a data modeling headache, all without linking your product. When you do share your own content, keep it to roughly one post out of every ten contributions, and make sure the other nine are real participation. In depth knowledge of Power BI and integrated partner products is explicitly encouraged, so a detailed walkthrough with zero promotional angle fits the rules.

Posts get removed for disrespect, excessive self promotion, spam, and any sales activity or market research. The fastest way to lose your post is to drop a link to your own product with no history of helping people here. Asking users to fill out a survey, answer customer discovery questions, or validate a paid product is banned, and that includes sending unsolicited direct messages to members. Trying to sell anything, even softly, is prohibited. Being rude or dismissive in technical arguments also breaks the first rule.

The 1 in 10 rule is written right into the rules here, which I like, because it removes all the guessing about how much self promotion is tolerated. I also find it refreshing that market research and customer discovery are banned by name, so founders cannot dress up a pitch as a question. If you build something in this space, my honest read is that you earn the right to post by answering other people's DAX and dashboard problems first.