r/ShopifyeCommerce rules, stats, and what to post

This community is a question and answer desk for Shopify. The public description says it is exclusively for asking technical help questions about how to do things on Shopify, and the first rule repeats that it covers Shopify and its associated apps, development, marketing, optimization, and e-commerce more broadly. The people posting here are store owners, developers, and marketers who hit a wall while building or running a Shopify store and want a specific problem solved. The people answering are other members who know the platform, and the moderators make it clear in the rules that sharing knowledge should happen in the comments rather than as its own post. Everything else, including promotion, market research, feedback requests, hiring, buying and selling, and AMAs, is out of scope.

The rule that decides everything here is “✅ Technical Help Question about Shopify / E-commerce”, which says the subreddit is exclusively for asking technical help questions about Shopify or its associated apps, development, marketing, optimization, and so on. If your post is not a question like that, one of the ban rules will catch it. “❌ Promotional Content” pushes all promotion into the pinned master promo thread. “❌ Market Research” bans surveys and research posts outright. “❌ Advice Posts / Case Studies” bans sharing value as a post and asks you to do it in the comments instead. “❌ Website Feedback” and “❌ App / SaaS Feedback” ban asking for feedback on your store or your product. “❌ “Has anyone tried ______?” posts” bans asking for reviews of specific products or services. “❌ Link & Leaves” requires that any link you share comes with a description or a reason for sharing. “❌ Asking for DMs” bans soliciting direct messages, so any help you offer has to happen publicly on the post itself.

A good post here is one specific, technical question about Shopify or e-commerce. Describe what you are trying to do, what you already tried, and what is blocking you, then ask the community how to fix it. If you want to share a link, include a clear description of why you are sharing it, because links with no reason are not allowed. If you want to mention your app, your store, or your startup, the only place for that is the pinned master promo thread. If you want to be visible as a founder, the rules themselves point you at the best method, which is regularly reading the new posts and answering member questions in the comments where your expertise applies.

The fastest way to get removed is posting anything that is not a technical help question. That means no promotion outside the master promo thread, no market research, no advice posts or case studies, no website feedback, no app or SaaS feedback, no has anyone tried posts, no hiring or job hunting posts, no buying or selling posts, no unapproved AMAs, and no asking for DMs. Links need a description or a reason for sharing, so a bare link with no context is a removal waiting to happen. Illegal or pirated content is banned, and anything that violates Reddit rules is banned too. The moderator one-liner sums it up plainly, posts that are not technical Shopify help questions get removed.

This might be the clearest set of rules I have read for any community, and rule 4 is the one that stops me in my tracks. It bans advice posts and case studies, then tells you the right move is answering member questions in the comments, which is exactly the respectful Reddit marketing I built Rankhog around. There is no shortcut here, just show up in the New Posts queue and be useful.