r/websiteservices rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community built around website services, which means the people here either need web work done or do web work for a living. The rules make the shape of the place very clear. There are threads where people request services and threads where people offer services, so this is a working marketplace style subreddit where clients and providers meet. Around that core, members talk about the craft itself, the work of building and running websites, and the day to day questions that come with it. If you build websites, design them, or hire people who do, this is your room.

Four rules decide whether your post survives here. The first is “Self Advertisement(s)”, which says no self advertisement unless the thread is requesting services or is flaired “Requesting Services”. The second is “Direct Profile/Financial Links”, which bans direct links to your freelance profile or money app, and it applies even in threads flaired “Offering Services”. The third is “Affiliate/Shortened Urls”, which bans affiliate links and shortened urls outright. The fourth is “Civility”, which requires you to remain civil and forbids stalking, trolling, threatening, abusive language, and racism.

The safest and most welcome post here is genuine help with no link attached. Answer questions about building, designing, or fixing websites, share what you have learned from real projects, and explain your reasoning so people can judge the advice on its own merits. If you want to offer your services, wait for a thread that is requesting services or is flaired “Requesting Services”, and follow that thread's lead. When you share a link at all, make it a full, direct url to something genuinely useful, never an affiliate link, never a shortened one, and never your freelance profile or a money app.

The fastest way to get removed is to advertise yourself in a thread that is not requesting services, because “Self Advertisement(s)” only allows promotion when the thread asks for it or carries the “Requesting Services” flair. Do not link your freelance profile or your money app anywhere, because “Direct Profile/Financial Links” bans those even in threads flaired “Offering Services”. Do not post affiliate links or shortened urls, because “Affiliate/Shortened Urls” bans both with no exceptions. And never stalk, troll, threaten, insult, or use racist language, because “Civility” gives no room for any of it.

This is one of the strictest link policies I have seen, because even threads where people offer services do not allow freelance profile links. That tells me the community wants conversation, not storefronts. My honest read is that if you show up to genuinely help, the rules barely touch you, and if you show up to sell, every single rule is aimed at you.