u/Weird_Ride213 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Where in the rules does it say offering a course or being a business owner and talking about it against Reddit rules? Provide the link
u/michaelnovati replied ·
There are a wide range of content violations here and there are no specific written rules covering all of them.
MY PERSONAL EXAMPLES:
1. Generic posts about topics that share links back to blog posts or such. Typically these are sharing in a ton of communities at once and get flagged as spam.
2. Ads or marketing for a paid product. This is a gray area, depending on the user posting it and what the content is. For example, if it's a free event being shared, that's generally allowed. If it's like something that would be a Google Ads it's not. Similar to 1. bad actors tend to spam a ton of communities from new accounts.
3. Copy-paste blog posts. Kind of like SEO for Reddit I guess, like generic content being posted by a company directly that has no clear purpose stated and is trying to build SEO back to the company's site. I could see a world where this is fine, but if it's spammy no
4. Companies sharing things hosting in other communities. This is sometimes ok, but if the purpose of the share is to be an ad for a community the company controls, generally not. They should post in that community.