Can I promote my product here?
Only if you are already an active participant who regularly engages with other members, and only if the post is genuinely about the University of Oklahoma campus or athletics.
Subreddit guides
r/sooners rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/sooners: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Current public stats
- Members
- 33,188
- Verified
- October 20, 2026
- Category
- Student and university life communities
Rules can change, so Rankhog keeps verification dates and the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
- No ticket posts outside of the marketplace thread: All posts regarding buying/selling tickets during the regular football season must be posted to the Ticket Marketplace threads. Individual posts will be removed.
- No Off-Topic Posts: Please keep posts on the topic of the University of Oklahoma. This includes posts about the campus and athletics.
- No racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry, etc.: No racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted, or otherwise discriminatory posts are tolerated.
- No inflammatory comments, personal attacks, trolling, or harassment: Posts & comments which are unnecessarily rude (inflammatory comments, harassment or personal attacks) or purposefully provocative (trolling) are not tolerated. These include inappropriate, inflammatory, or overly crude submissions which add nothing to discussion.
- Spam & Self-promotion: In accordance with Reddit rules, posting links to external sites for the purpose of driving traffic may result in an account suspension and/or a domain ban. Posting the same or similar links, posts, or comments repeatedly may also result in a ban. Self-Promotion: you must be an active participant in the /r/Sooners community who regularly engages with other members to promote your own material. Overly frequent posting may result in content being removed and a warning or ban. Refer to Reddit rule
Works well
- A question about campus life or OU traditions that invites students and alumni to share their own stories
- A discussion post about Sooners athletics that gives fans a reason to share opinions in the comments
- A post from someone with a real OU connection, like an alum sharing something they built that is relevant to campus or student life, shared after they have been active in the community
- A comment-first approach where you join existing threads about OU topics for weeks before ever starting your own post
- A helpful answer inside someone else's thread that shows you know the community, with no link attached
Avoid
- Posting a ticket sale or ticket request as its own post during the regular football season, because individual posts get removed and the marketplace thread is the only allowed place
- Dropping a link to your site with no history in the community, which reads as driving traffic and can lead to a suspension or a domain ban
- Posting the same or similar links, posts, or comments over and over, which the rules say can get you banned
- Starting a thread about something unrelated to the University of Oklahoma, like general business advice or a product pitch with no campus or athletics angle
- Writing rude, inflammatory, or trolling comments when someone pushes back on you in the thread
- Promoting your own material while being a lurker, because the rule requires regular engagement with other members first
What r/sooners Is For
This is the subreddit for the University of Oklahoma Sooners. The description says it is a place where students, alumni, and fans come together to discuss all things OU. The rules make the scope clear. Posts need to be on the topic of the University of Oklahoma, and that includes the campus and athletics. So the room is built around OU life, football, and campus news, and the people posting are tied to the school by studying there, graduating from it, or rooting for its teams. Anything outside that scope is off topic by rule.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
Four rules decide whether a marketing-adjacent post survives here. “No Off-Topic Posts” is the first filter, because your post has to be about the University of Oklahoma, including the campus and athletics, or it gets removed. “Spam & Self-promotion” is the big one for founders, and it says two things. Posting links to external sites to drive traffic can get your account suspended or the domain banned, and posting the same or similar links, posts, or comments repeatedly can get you banned. It also says you must be an active participant in the /r/Sooners community who regularly engages with other members before you promote your own material, and that overly frequent posting can lead to removal plus a warning or ban. “No inflammatory comments, personal attacks, trolling, or harassment” matters because marketing threads can draw pushback, and answering rudely puts you in violation. “No ticket posts outside of the marketplace thread” matters if you ever touch tickets, since individual posts get removed during the regular football season. “No racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry, etc.” is the baseline for how you talk to people.
What To Post
A good post here is genuinely about the University of Oklahoma first. If you are a founder with an OU connection, like you studied there or your product serves college communities, lead with that real connection and talk about the OU part of your story, not the product pitch. Ask questions that students, alumni, or fans actually want to answer, like something about campus life or game days, and be a regular participant in those threads long before you ever mention your own work. If you share a link, make sure it adds something the community wants and is not the same thing you posted last week. Keep it civil even when someone disagrees with you.
What To Avoid
The fastest way to get removed is going off topic, so keep every post tied to the University of Oklahoma campus or athletics. Do not post tickets outside the marketplace thread during the regular football season, because individual posts will be removed. Do not drop links to external sites just to drive traffic, because that can end in an account suspension or a domain ban. Do not repeat the same or similar links, posts, or comments, because that can get you banned. Do not promote your own material unless you are already an active participant who regularly engages with other members, and do not post your own stuff too often, because overly frequent posting can get content removed and earn you a warning or ban. Never post anything racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted, or otherwise discriminatory, and never get inflammatory, rude, trolling, or harassing in your posts or comments.
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Common questions about r/sooners
Can I post about tickets I want to buy or sell?
No. During the regular football season, ticket posts must go in the Ticket Marketplace threads, and individual posts will be removed.
Are links to external sites allowed at all?
The rules allow links but warn that posting them to drive traffic can lead to an account suspension or a domain ban, so any link needs to be clearly welcome and not repeated.
How often can I post my own material?
The rules say overly frequent posting may result in content being removed and a warning or ban, so space things out and keep contributing normally in between.
Can I post something general, like startup advice, with no OU connection?
No. The rules require posts to stay on the topic of the University of Oklahoma, including the campus and athletics.
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