r/ValueInvesting rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for value investing, the tradition that runs from Graham and Dodd through Buffett and Munger and the people who carry their ideas forward today. That means the conversation is about buying stocks based on their underlying value, not about quick trades or market noise. The people posting here are investors who read financial information, form their own views on companies, and expect the same from you. The rules make the room's priorities plain. They want stock discussions grounded in real analysis, simple beginner questions are welcome, and anything that smells like advertising, scams, or chat group recruiting is pushed out. The moderators also state clearly that what counts as on topic is at their discretion, so the bar for fitting in here is judgment, not just following a checklist.

Four rules decide almost everything here. “No Off-Topic Posts” limits posts to investing in stocks from a value investing perspective, and it explicitly lists crypto, personal finance questions, general business or political news, charting, day trading, and meme or penny stocks as off topic. “No Spam” bans content posted to many subreddits at once, accounts that repeatedly link the same websites, and accounts that exist only to advertise something, and it says over promoted websites can get their links banned too. “No Commercial Advertising” bans commercial products and services, with one narrow carve out for truly free services that have no freemium tiers and no account requirement, which may be introduced once, and it allows self-promotion of articles you authored if they are on topic. “No Single-Stock or Single-Source Promoting Accounts” bans accounts that mostly post about one stock or mostly self-promote one source, and allows limited self-promotion of original investing content for regular participants at the moderators' discretion. Three more rules matter if you plan to comment or engage. “No Low-Effort Posts” requires any stock post to explain the company or share financial information and state what you like or dislike about it, and it points short stock questions to the pinned Weekly Megathread. “No Off-Reddit Chat Groups” bans advertising Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, or similar groups or asking people to DM to join them. “No soliciting direct messages or contact info” bans asking for DMs, email, or contact details, and doing it to get around other rules can earn a ban. The rules also flag scams, personal attacks, and AI-generated content as things moderators remove.

If you are a founder or marketer reading this, the honest path here is narrow but real. The clearest opening in the rules is self-promotion of articles you authored, allowed when the piece is on topic, and limited self-promotion of original investing content for people who are regular participants first. So the shape is simple. Become a regular participant who comments on other people's stock analysis, then occasionally share an original article that actually discusses a company or a value investing idea, with your own thinking in it. Any stock post you make needs at least a basic explanation of the company or some financial information, and you should state what you like or dislike about the stock yourself. Simple beginner questions about value investing are welcome, so a genuine question in that spirit is a fine early post. Short stock questions belong in the pinned Weekly Megathread as comments. If you are unsure whether something fits, the rules tell you exactly what to do, send the moderators a modmail first.

The fastest way to lose your account here is to arrive as a marketer. Posting links to many subreddits at once, or repeatedly linking the same website, breaks “No Spam” and can get the website itself banned, not just your account. Advertising a commercial product or service breaks “No Commercial Advertising”, and even a genuinely free tool may be introduced only once, with no freemium tiers and no required signup. Accounts built around one stock or one source break “No Single-Stock or Single-Source Promoting Accounts”. Off topic content like crypto, personal finance, general news, charting, real estate, and day trading breaks “No Off-Topic Posts”. Scam links or get rich quick schemes break “No Scams”. Stock posts that just ask other people to do your research break “No Low-Effort Posts”, and short stock questions belong in the pinned Weekly Megathread instead. Advertising Discord, WhatsApp, or Telegram groups breaks “No Off-Reddit Chat Groups”, and asking for DMs or contact info breaks “No soliciting direct messages or contact info”. Personal attacks and harassment break their own rule, and note that moderators may delete AI-generated content, misleading titles, and unwelcome bots under their catch-all rule.

This is one of the strictest rule sets I have read while writing these guides, and I mean that as a compliment. Rule 5 is the one that changes everything, because it protects regular participants who share their own work while shutting out accounts built around a single stock or a single source. If you want a place in this room, earn it by writing real analysis first and linking almost never.