r/UnethicalLifeProTips rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for sharing unethical life pro tips, which the description defines as tips that improve your life in a meaningful way, perhaps at the expense of others or with questionable legality. The description is clear that these tips are just for fun and nobody should actually follow them. People come here to read clever, slightly shady tricks and to share their own, and the tone runs from mischievous to dark but never truly harmful.

The rule that ends most marketing attempts before they start is “No Solicitation / Advertising / Transactions / Promotions”. It says do not solicit followers or customers for your personal services, do not ask for or offer money for services, and do not comment or post naming specific companies or websites, take it to DM. So you cannot name your product, your company, or even a comparison site in a post or comment here.

Honestly, almost nothing a founder would call marketing belongs here. The only respectful play is to participate as a person, not as a brand. If you post at all, bring one single, genuinely unethical, genuinely non obvious tip that has nothing to do with your business, follow the one tip per post rule, skip any made up statistics, and take any mention of a specific company or website to DMs instead of the post. If you cannot do that honestly, read and comment rather than post.

A post here dies for one of a few reasons. It is ethical instead of unethical, it is obvious, it is a list instead of a single tip, it names a company or website, it asks for money or customers, it is about Reddit karma, it references other Reddit posts, it includes fake statistics, it involves cheating on exams or dodging workplace monitoring, it is political, it doxxes anyone, or it pushes into violence, illegal territory, or physical danger. AI written content is also not allowed, so a post that reads like it was generated by a tool fits right into that spirit of removal.

What strikes me most here is that rule 1 bans AI content outright, which tells you this community is protective of tips that feel like they came from a real person's real life. The community also says right in its description not to actually follow any of these tips, they are just for fun. As a founder, my honest read is that this is a place to learn how people think about bending rules, not a place to plant your product. If you post here at all, post one clever, non obvious, human sounding tip and leave your business out of it completely.