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Rule 1 - Questions must be clear and direct and may not use the body textbox
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Rule 1 - Questions must be clear and direct and may not use the body textbox
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All questions must be clear, written in English, and conclude with a question mark
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All context in the title must be necessary to understanding the question; do not give “example answers” in the post title (i.e. “Other than your mom, ______?”)
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No text in the text box - any additional info from you must be added as a comment to your post
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Rule 2 - No personal or professional advice requests
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Rule 2 - No personal or professional advice requests
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Askreddit is NOT your personal or professional advice platform
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Do not makes posts asking for professional advice - medical, legal, financial, or otherwise
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All posts asking for advice must be generic and not specific to your situation alone
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Do not use first person pronouns
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No crowdsourcing naming or purchasing decisions
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Rule 3 - Open ended questions only
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Rule 3 - Open ended questions only
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Post must be an open-ended discussion question
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Title must not be phrased to allow a simple yes/no answer
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No questions that have definite answers
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Question must not be a poll or survey
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No “Either/Or” type questions
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Do not ask for NSFW links
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Do not specify a length (eg "in three words...") or make your post into a game
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Rule 4 - No personal info
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Rule 4 - No personal info
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Do not post or seek any real or fake personal information (examples include: full names, phone numbers, email addresses, or social media accounts)
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Only link another user's comment when it is relevant and never when it is to launch a personal attack or encourage others to do so
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Do not ask questions designed to target specific usernames or links to social media
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Rule 5 - No loaded questions
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Rule 5 - No loaded questions
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Do not include an opinion, bias, or lead respondents towards expressing a specific opinion in your post title
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Do not use this subreddit to promote a specific agenda or to gain positive or negative publicity for an entity or person
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Rule 6 - [Serious] tagged posts are off-limits to jokes or irrelevant replies
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Rule 6 - [Serious] tagged posts are off-limits to jokes or irrelevant replies
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[Serious] posts are off-limits for joke replies and irrelevant or off-topic comments and discussion
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If the OP asks for answers from a specific group in a [Serious] post, top level comments must be made from members of that group
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Posts that do not receive relevant answers within an hour will be removed
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Rule 7 - No begging for goods or services, or Reddit rewards
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Rule 7 - No begging for goods or services, or Reddit rewards
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Do not ask for Reddit rewards, money, goods, services,or favors
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Do not form a brigade to draw positive or negative attention to posts or comments in AskReddit, even from other subreddits
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Rule 8 - Be respectful to other users at all times and conduct your behaviour in a civil manner
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Rule 8 - Be respectful to other users at all times and conduct your behaviour in a civil manner
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Do not make personal attacks, insult, or demean a specific group or person
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Do not use slurs without relevant context and quotes
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No blatant statements of bigotry
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No posts that 'bait' users into breaking other rules
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Zero tolerance for posts/comments that sexualize minors
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Zero tolerance for posts/comments that encourage suicide
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Rule 9 - No image only replies or large ascii art
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Rule 9 - No image only replies or large ascii art
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Comment replies must consist of more than just an image or link
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No ASCII/emoji images over one line
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Rule 10 - Harmful Misinformation
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Rule 10 - Harmful Misinformation
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Do not downplay the effects of a medical crisis
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Do not undermine the efficacy of vaccines where there is widespread agreement among the medical and scientific communities
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Do not encourage illegal activity
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Do not encourage delayed medical treatment
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Rule 11 - No spam, machine generated content or karma farming
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Rule 11 - No spam, machine generated content or karma farming
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Do not post spam
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Do not edit comments to mislead and/or advertise
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Do not farm karma or shotgun comments
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Bots are not allowed in r/AskReddit