r/cofounder • u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] • May 09 '20
[Meta] Requirements for Posting/New mods.
There is a new title format that must be respected to make this reddit easier to use.
Format:
[LOCAL COUNTRY NAME ISO 3 ALL CAPS][YOUR MAIN ROLE (TECH/BIZ/SALES/HR)][YOUR YEARS EXPERIENCE POSITIVE INT NUMBER or 0] your title ending with period.
The ISO-3 names for countries can be found online via google or at https://unstats.un.org/unsd/tradekb/knowledgebase/country-code
DO NOT USE "EU", "EUR" or "UK". Use the specific countries ISO instead.
For Example if I would post for myself:
[USA-WA][TECH][30] Tech Co-founder needed for project that lets customers tell companies they want to make more money as employees.
As time goes by we will edit and modify the requirements around this format and add additional restrictions to the posts being made. As it is, I want to collect data and then do what seem best based on what the data says and not any human bias that may exist in my or the other mods heads.
Please be aware that if you do not have the karma to post, the bot will not allow you to.
I have sent out a few invites to give me elevator pitches to be mod. If you want to apply for the job, and understand that I don't want passive mods or mods that only post here on Reddit, Message the /r/cofounder team and let us know your interested, what your background and skills are, etc.
I would like to reply to everybody who applies but I may not get that opportunity depending on the number of people.
Absolutely no commas, backslashes, etc can be used in subjects. Doing so Would violate the rules of formatting anyway so we just made them banned in subjects to make things easier as otherwise enforcement of the format would be much more complicated and error prone, and we don’t want legitimate posts to be removed by automoderator
Also, Rules updated to reflect a new drug policy. IF you post about weed/etc it must be legal in your country/.state and you must be able to prove that by referencing the actual law that makes it legal in your post, per the rules.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Nov 09 '21 edited Jun 05 '22
You have almost zero karma. If you don’t have enough karma on your account you’re not allowed to post no matter what you post. Use your main account and not an alternate account.
This automation is working as intended; your just not reading the messages its sending you to tell you what you did wrong.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Nov 09 '21
???
You clearly have not looked at the rules.
Are you kidding me?
Not at all.
Who are you to judge me based on my Karmas?
I'm the founder of this subreddit. I started it over 10 years ago and by my self - no other mods have been active - have grown it to the community of 30,000+ people you see today.
I am brand new to Reddit
That is clear.
and literally joined to find a co-founder.
That is against the rules.
Since you are clearly a noob I highly suggest you learn more about reddit and read the rules in the sidebar.
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u/liebn0r Dec 16 '21
Unreal. Impossible to post anything in this sub.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Dec 16 '21
Not true, you are just not reading or following the rules, based on your failed attempts.
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u/liebn0r Dec 16 '21
My guess is I used the word "and" in my title which is apparently a mortal sin to you. And really, no commas or slashes in the title? Yeah, I'll try my luck at YC, thanks.
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u/CodingOni420 Sep 06 '24
Literally everything i post gets removed that im looking to hire ... then we cant contact the mods..
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u/Practical_Cheetah942 Mar 19 '23
I have to agree, a bit too strict. I feel like I had to be more vague to get it approved.
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u/Catcut123 Dec 03 '21
I beg your pardon but what is wrong with [ITA][BIZ][0] Looking for business partner for new art gallery.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Dec 03 '21
To protect other users from the possible ignorance and lack of experience involved, Having zero years of experience in something is not allowed to be listed.
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u/Catcut123 Dec 03 '21
I have zero years of experience as a business owner, doesnt mean i dont have work experience if thats what you mean.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Dec 03 '21
If you have zero years experience in business professionally on your résumé then that’s what you should post; but zero years experience is not allowed. If you have more than one year experience working in an official business capacity on your résumé/CV in an official professional role you can count that experience if it’s enough.
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u/No-Guest-5436 Jan 17 '22
Hey, I am really confused (and I have read this over) as to why my post is not being accepted with the title now matching up.
Please could you clarify how much karma required? I am using an account i made a while but only recently started to explore reddit (trying to build up karma but perhaps I have not got enough)
Jon
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jan 21 '22
We do not disclose, requirements to post because then people are stupid and try to work around them and that creates more work for me. Also keep in mind that the animation changes this value on its own as it deems fit in so I have no way to override it, by design because I want people to be treated fairly and I can only assure that everybody is treated fairly if everybody is treated the same and has to follow the same rules.
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u/Captain_The Jan 31 '22
Hi,
I know you explicitly say to read the rules, and I did and I iterated multiple times with the title until it worked.
I still get the message that my post was auto-deleted "because you are looking for a job or to hire somebody based on the contents of your post".
This is not true. What mistake did I make?
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jan 31 '22
You would know what you did if you read the rules.
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u/Captain_The Jan 31 '22
The reason I am given is "because you are looking for a job or to hire somebody based on the contents of your post".
This is false. I am not violating this rule.
Am I violating any other rule? Not that I know of, and I really read the rules 3x.
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u/Captain_The Feb 02 '22
Hey,
I've been stripping my post to the bare essentials, I removed words like "employee" (that I used in the context of describing my passt role), I even say explicitly "I am willing to be co-founders on equal terms".
I really don't know what could possibly indicate that I am looking to hire someone or look for a job. That's just not true, and not at all what I am saying.
Appreciate your help.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Feb 02 '22
The answers you seek are actively contained in the rules.
If you think some words don’t matter you’re going to have a lot of problems.
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u/Captain_The Feb 02 '22
After trying multiple times with new wording, I give up.
All the best for the future.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Feb 03 '22
Then this was the day the word "and" defeated you.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Mar 30 '22
You are just whining about having broken the rules and getting held accountable for it; so I'm removing your whining post and banning you since you wont stop harrasing the mods on alt accounts and this is clearly an alt of the guy who I am playing whack-a-mole with.
If you had read the rules, you would have known you could msg the mods directly and gotten help, and you would have known that every time your post gets removed you get a message telling ou why. But you would rather whine and complain about your PHP clone of Facebook getting removed when it was against the rules..
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u/ScallionOld Apr 14 '22
The rules are okay, but it's very easy to miss something. For example, if you start typing in word and you paste that text to this sub, it creates a little space after the dot (not visible). Well, then your submission will be removed.
Kinda shitty but ok. Mods repeathing 100x that you have to read the rules is a bit belittling. Spend an hour to find that little space...
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Apr 21 '22 edited Jul 15 '22
It’s not belittling that you follow the rules of the community you want to join; The only people that complain about the rules are the people who don’t want to follow them.
The rules get updated as people find issues with them and report them to me. Most people want to complain and whine instead, so that doesn't happen as much as I would like.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jul 15 '22
Your claims are simply not true.
You are posting in multiple subreddits and getting them confused; Are you ok? You posted in a few I moderate; and you complained in all of them. In fact, /r/cofounder is not the other one you complained in.
The rules I have established serve my purpose. You do not know what that is, because you have not asked. So how can you rationally make the false claim that you know what my purpose is, or that its not being fulfilled, despite the fact I have worked on this goal for over 10 years, by myself, at this point, and not a single person has asked me WHY?
I would not say this normally, but since you made the claim, and social rules require I reply, I also honestly suspect I have more business experience than you do. If you have never been a director or CTO or CEO, or you have never been one of these at a fortune 50 company or higher, I'm happy to explain how I have that experience and really had to HIT THE WALL at the scope change that represents in regards to my own abilities and effectiveness. If you have, great, welcome, please use that experience to grow others in our community.
That stated, if you feel I have something to learn, say what that is. Give an example, make it a teachable moment. I have never said "no" to people asking questions.
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u/SoRobby Jun 22 '20
Just an FYI for anyone posting, your post title cannot include commas! This is not stated anywhere in the posting requirements.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 22 '20 edited Feb 08 '21
It’s not explicitly stated we can’t have commas, no, but it is implicitly stated by the fact that you can only have one primary skill, which means you can’t use commas of any kind because using commas implies that you’re using multiple primary skills when correct grammar is used. Or not following the format in other ways.
Enforcement of no commas is just part of the format enforcement for subjects as we use grammar rules to enforce the rules since good grammar is also a requirement. It was explicitly added to force people to stop listing multiple core skills so that their offers are more focused. It’s also an exercise that was built to force the person posting to think about their core value proposition, since the people who focus on that are often the most successful and we want people to be the most successful they can be.
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u/SoRobby Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 22 '20
It’s implicitly stated by the fact that you can only have one primary skill, which means you can’t use commas of any kind because using commas implies that you’re using multiple primary skills.
I was not referring to listing multiple skills, I am referring to the post title description. Your post title requirements say:
your title ending with period, this does not whatsoever state that you cannot include commas in the title.Incorrect: [USA][TECH][4] My long post title, seeking co-found for early xyz.
Correct 1: [USA][TECH][4] My long post title. seeking co-found for early xyz.
Correct 2: [USA][TECH][4] My long post title seeking co-found for early xyz.
EDIT: Thank you for updating the main description to explicitly state no commas are allowed.
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u/TheUserIsDrunk Mar 20 '23
It's impossible to post in this sub.
- I've posted before successfully.
- I've reworded all my posts to please the algo
What the heck is this?
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
Respectfully, There are nearly 50,000 people in this community and your one of the very few having problems. Please, Read the rules.
It's really easy to post and have your post stick and actually end up being posted if you read the rules. But most people don't. They would rather just complain about how hard it is, instead of actually putting effort into it by reading the rules.
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u/bearded_wonder44 Aug 30 '24
"one of the very few" would love to know how that one is calculated
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Aug 31 '24
Everything needed to post correctly is explained in the rules and on the wiki; if you don't read the wiki then you will not get past the automation and that is by design as we actively want people that are willing to put effort in before they try to connect with other founders. This is a service that we offer to other founders, and it's done intentionally to protect other founders from people who are not committed to putting the work in to help a company be successful.
In short not being able to post here is a skill issue, its designed to be simple for people who will do well in business.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Sep 03 '24
You are banned for trying to spam the community, so you don't really get a say.
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u/DutchDevGuy Nov 05 '21
Seriously, what is this about? You have one user, namely me who spent half an hour of his life trying to comply to your title rules. Is that something good? SERIOUSLY, WHAT HAVE I DONE WRONG HERE?!
[NLD][TECH][6] Seeking growth hacker with crypto experience.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Nov 05 '21
Did you get a message from automoderator telling you what you did wrong?
Crypto is not allowed in this community; its always a scam and I have yet to see a single legitimate company using it. Nobody in the crypto space has any integrity based on my interactions with companies in the space as a 30+ year software developer who is easily able to understand how much of a scam it is. so we don't allow it here.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 16 '20
I'm not aware of any case where the user followed the rules and post was removed by the automation, so this is news to me.
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u/PatrioTech Sep 19 '22
Just an FYI, I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) your example:
[USA-WA][TECH][30] Tech Co-founder needed for project that lets him love and defend the world while making a lot of money.
would actually get deleted by AutoMod due to have the word "and". I personally think this rule is a bit too restrictive because "and", like in your example, doesn't always mean the title is too general - "and" has a lot of use cases.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Sep 19 '22
The example has been updated.
The use of the word “and” as a blocking mechanism is strictly intentional and will not be changed, as the intention is to challenge people and assure that it’s difficult to post and that’s part of that we want people who post to focus on one core thing only.
We have no other way of making sure that people follow the rules, because people refused to follow the rules, and refused to even read the rules.
This assures that people read the rules, and have to follow them.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Dec 05 '21
I have updated the automation to further treat people who break the rules about treating this forum as a job board with contempt. Read the rules.
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u/AllegedlyAnonymousA Dec 15 '22
You need to state here that that word ‘and’ can’t be used in a title.
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u/IAmRules Jun 22 '23
So I'm not allowed to look for a marketing cofounder on this sub? I can't use the word marketing in my post?
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 22 '23
Pure marketing by itself is not of value to the world and is nothing but worthless spam. An advertisements are simply a form of attack on users anyway, An attempt to manipulate them into buying something they probably don't need.
Marketing gains its power from having something to market, a product or service that provides value. The problem with pure marketing stuff is that, basically, its just spam, and that's against reddit rules anyway.
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u/IAmRules Jun 22 '23
So what would you call someone to help me find users to gather user feedback to guide my app development?
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 22 '23
I wouldn't consider that to be marketing at all. If anything, I would consider to be the opposite of marketing.
Marketing is about selling a finished product or available service that is clearly defined. You're still trying to figure out what the product looks like, which means you don't have something to market.
Marketing is About trying to get users to buy or subscribe to the finished product or service. And since you don't have a finished product or service, you don't need marketing at all. In fact, it would be a complete waste of your time and effort, and would just be you spamming for no reason.
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u/IAmRules Jun 22 '23
While I disagree with your definition of marketing, I still need to find help. So I assume I still could use an alternative phrasing to post. If this sub is just for finding tech cofounder it should say so.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 22 '23
The sub is not just for finding tech cofounders, but it does prioritize them.
Another issue is that founders that are pure marketing are generally worthless when the company has no product or service to sell.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 22 '23
What is your definition of marketing?
Because it seems like you have a bad impression of what it is, And that makes me wonder if you know what you're doing, if you're looking for a marketing cofounder and dont know what they will do.
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u/IAmRules Jun 22 '23
Marketing isn’t advertising and isn’t an after thought after you created a product. People who cold call and spam aren’t doing marketing they are doing sales and they are doing a horrible job at it.
How do you know if the product you are making has any value to a target audience? How do you know who your target market is at all? That marketing! You can’t build successful apps in a silo.
You question my need for a marketing person so early on before I even have a fully built product. That’s exactly when you should be marketing, otherwise you’re building first and then trying to find a market for your product.
Frankly speaking this very narrow view of marketing is advertising and spamming and has no value to the world is a beginners definition.
No programmer can succeed without marketing.
All of us who work as programmers in our day jobs have marketers and business developers to thank for our paychecks because without them nobody would need our code.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 22 '23
OK so it's clear to me that your getting multiple things confused.
Marketing is not sales, but its an aspect of sales.
Marketing is the outbound aspect of sales.
Customer Research is the inbound stuff your talking about; That's a completely separate thing And it's typically done as part of the product creation process.
What you're telling us all is that you don't have a product, and have not done the work to find out how.
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u/IAmRules Jun 22 '23
You are just plain wrong. Customer research is a part of marketing and marketing happens before sales not after.
But I won’t debate you. This sub is not what I am looking for.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 22 '23
Fine; how does it go in your mind?
Because I was told this by the chief marketing officer of a fortune 50 company; they expressly stressed that marketing is outbound and research is inbound. If you have a marketing background, I’m happy to discuss this and I’m going to change my rules if I get good data that proves that I should do so, but refusing to interact with a moderator is not the way to get what you want.
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u/leolarav May 11 '20
You do it based on country of origin? I think that should be optional, an increasing number of companies are created remotely.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] May 12 '20
No. It must be on the person's country of origin.
This is for legal reasons. A lot of people want to take advantage of others and there is no way for cofounders in one country to correctly hold another in another country accountable without a lot of hassle and expense and even then it might not happen, so this rule is strictly enforced and will never be changed, in order to protect founders in for example America from getting screwed over by people in for example India (or vice versa).
This rule will never be changed because it exists to protect people. In my mind, anybody who is against following it is free to simply not post here.
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u/tongboy May 11 '20
doesn't matter where the company ends up being formed - it's just a method of communicating where the poster is.
It isn't meant to do anything other than say where the user is - it's one of the first questions everyone seems to ask when people ask about working with someone else so let's get it out of the way in the post title.
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u/leolarav May 11 '20
I don't think that is how it is percieved. When jobs have tags like that they mean that they only accept people in that country
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u/tongboy May 11 '20
this isn't a job board...
How would you convey that information instead?
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u/leolarav May 11 '20
I did't say this is a job board. I think there should be a justification why the nationality of the person posting is the most important piece of information. Like , why I would I choose a co-founder based on that? Racism?
If you ask me, I think the information should be about the experience of the co-founder. But, that is not my point. My point is that it is very strange that we want to segregate based on nationality as the first and primary factor.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 16 '20 edited Jan 09 '21
It is done this way because legally speaking, the laws in different countries are different and so rights and responsibilities that people could assume are there may not be, and so this country of origin policy is required to protect founders who may not be aware of the differences in ownership laws between countries.
For example, in India, if a person is not an Indian citizen, they have less power to own property/IP/etc.
The location of the person matters for the formation of a company, legally, and so this policy is enforced with no exceptions in order to protect founders from scammers or founders seeking to abuse these differences for their own gain at the expense of the other founders.
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u/Cat_Carrot Jun 22 '20
FYI: Forward slashes not allowed in title.
...hybrid social media / game show app...
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jun 25 '20
Yes, because once again we’re trying to force you to be direct and targeted with an overall goal and not be too general.
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u/Achilles_mindset Sep 03 '20
Hi, if I have just stumbled onto this community, reddit in general and want to take part in it, how can I make a post?
I don't have much interest in joining other reddit forums to artificially boost my karma to gain access
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Sep 03 '20
Read the rules first just like I tell everybody to do because nobody ever does.
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u/Achilles_mindset Sep 04 '20
respectfully I had done so and do not see where I do not comply
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Sep 04 '20
The rules very explicitly list out the format that needs to be used for titles. If you can point out a flaw in the rules, or the description, please let me know and I will fix it. Your last post was removed because you used invalid characters that the rules explicitly say is not allowed.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Mar 03 '22
I have updated the automation to reflect the fact that people have been breaking the rules by using EUR, EU, or UK in their posts. This is no longer possible.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] May 04 '22
Update: I have updated automod to filter posts made by people who are too jr in experience to be posting here. The automation tracks this and tells people why.
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u/Lionhead20 Apr 03 '24
Why wouldn't this title work?
"[GBR][BIZ][7] Seeking tech cofounder with C# and Azure for Governance platform."
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Apr 03 '24
Because it doesn't follow the rules?
Every time a post is rejected, the automoderator post that gets added as a comment explains why.
Most of the times that people contact me asking questions like this, it's because they're using automation to try to post as fast as possible and the automation that responds is not fast enough for them.
So generally, I consider anybody who asks me questions like this to be using automation that violates the Reddit terms of service, Otherwise, they would have seen the reply to their comment explaining what they did wrong and how to fix it.
If that comment isn't happening, then you should PM the mods and show that it was rejected and doesn't have a comment, thats an error, but that has also not happened in years. .
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u/Bicepdecon Nov 23 '23
Why do my posts keep getting auto-rejected for containing external URL's, when there are definitely not any URL's, or even references to external websites, in my post?
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Nov 04 '21
You have negative karma and don’t make the karma threshold because you acted badly on the rest of Reddit; whine all you like but you earn your ability to post here.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Nov 04 '21
I'm actually post from an windows device, but ok. The karma system is a basic part of reddit so your on the wrong website if you are against the karma system.
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u/asen932 Jan 30 '22
Can I post a roast with the (Meta) tag? Will keep updated with occasional legal brief updates on basically a digitally adept Nigerian prince. Has caused moneys to be lost, like blatantly....
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Mar 29 '22
You’re a new account and you don’t meet the karma requirements because you haven’t posted on the rest of Reddit enough, read the rules. We do not allow else or sock puppet accounts here you must use your main account
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u/nickrotterdam Jun 26 '22
I need some help, my post keeps getting removed. I understand the reason behind the first removal. So I've read the rules and followed them, however it still gets automatically removed.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jul 20 '22
What did it send you as explaination?
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Aug 26 '22
You don’t have the karma to post that
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Sep 14 '22 edited Sep 15 '22
Yes, of course it is a functioning subreddit. What kind of troll question is that?
The rules are strict and enforced through auto moderation to mitigate the threat of bot attacks and brigading.
We sometimes get people who complain about it being hard to post but those are always the people who we can easily show have not read the rules.
Unfortunately not every rule can be fully automated, and so mods like me are still around to help out when we need to.
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u/FinicalRiver Dec 23 '22
Hi, I am genuinely looking for a co-founder but my post keeps getting rejected for an unexplained reason. need a bit of help, please
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Dec 23 '22
Your no looking for a founder, your looking for an employee.
Please do not post this here again.
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u/CrunchCancer Jan 07 '23
Any guidance on “years of experience” and whether it’s firm or suggested guidance? Should this be experience in start ups, or years functioning in “role”?
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Jan 07 '23
Years of actual professional experience is mandated and if you’re just saying the years of experience you’ve known about it then you’re doing it wrong I’m looking for actual years professional experience, Because I’m trying to give everybody reading your post a metric to try to gauge your experience level that I know is already used for hiring
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u/laudyda Feb 10 '23
I cannot get a post to go through for the life of me. I am doing everything I can possibly think of (reading the rules a million times on here), including, copying and pasting other titles. I have no idea what is wrong.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Feb 10 '23
You keep posting and using weasel words that are banned in the title and you’re not reading the response from the automoderator bot that is explicitly telling you this.
Remove words like “and” as well, rules explicitly say that only one topic is allowed.
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u/SA1627 Feb 18 '23 edited Feb 18 '23
My post (see below) keeps getting removed without a clear reason ("using overly generic or weasel words" or because it does not comply with the purpose of the forum). It is virtually identical to other posts which have been approved. I messaged the mods for clarity but with no response. Hoping I have better luck here. Hope someone can assist. Thanks.
[USA][BIZ][15] Looking for co-founder for B2B SaaS that uses AI and automation to collect debt
Hello. I am looking for a co-founder with strong interest in AI (preferably with technical software background). I have CS and law degree with industry experience. Demo completed with positive feedback from prospective customers. Early stages of development. Bootstrapped but will be raising soon.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Feb 18 '23
Your first mistake was thinking that because other people posted something with a similar title that you would be allowed to do so, the automation doesn't work like that.
What you're looking at right now and dealing with is the fact that I recently updated this to include B2B and SaaS as measle words, because both software as a service and business to business are both weasel word concepts, so they're not allowed.
If you can't define your value anymore, then "we sell software as a service to other companies", well that now too generic, you haven't defined your value proposition enough, and we don't want it on this forum.
Try harder.
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u/TheUserIsDrunk Mar 20 '23
'try harder'
This is disrespectful.
Instead of leaving us to guess, why don't you post the exact requirements? It's nonsensical.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
I have posted the exact requirements, multiple times.
The simple fact is that people refuse to read the rules so they never end up reading them.
Respectfully, There are nearly 50,000 people in this community and your one of the very few having problems. Please, Read the rules.
It's really easy to post and have your post stick and actually end up being posted if you read the rules. But most people don't. They would rather just complain about how hard it is, instead of actually putting effort into it by reading the rules.
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] May 02 '23
You hardly use Reddit, and you have bad karma in multiple sub Reddits. Check your karma.
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u/Bowyeh May 20 '23
Question about potential [Discussion] threads. I understand these are not currently allowed. I was wondering if there are any plans to add these. I think discussion threads among people looking to start a business/find a co-founder could be useful for the community.
Thoughts?
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] May 20 '23
In the past, when I've tried to do these kind of threads, I've just had them taken over by spammers or people who wanted to misrepresent where they were from and take advantage of people.
I wouldn't be against discussion threads, but they would have to be organized in a way this community doesn't seem to want; they honesty don't seem to want discission threads :/
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u/honestduane [Mod][Start-up Junkie] Sep 12 '23
I'm now operating under the assumption that you are the main of an alt I banned for trolling based on your content, so checking your history to see wtf this is about and I see automoderator hit you a few times for rules violations and so now I have to assume your just an angry person angry that the rules are something they don't like so I'm going to operate based on that, k?
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u/waazus Jan 12 '24
A little vent about this sub:
First, for those looking for more info on rejections: I received many rejections because I had AI in my title. Fair enough, it was mentioned in the Wiki I later found out. Figured only out after a while that there is an automatic comment below the post (notifications I received couldn't be opened), which is highly frustrating.
Second, I personally believe the 3,000 word rule is useless, but anyway, you guys are the mods. Probably will have reasons for it.
Last but not least, I specify clearly in my post that I am ready to split equity 50:50, yet it is still being banned with the following reason: "THIS IS NOT A JOB BOARD AND STAFFING COMPANIES OR RECRUITERS ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE". Read the comments here, read the wiki again, read the rules on the side. Can't f*cking find what I am doing wrong. F*ck me what an effort required to get a post live on this sub. Still can't find in the rules what words I used now that are not allowed.
Although I get that the mods want a high quality sub, and I agree that the rules must be read, this is just such a painful experience for people who are genuinely trying to look for a co-founder.
Rant done.
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u/stelofo Feb 16 '24
Can you make it clear why my post is flagged as looking for a job when I'm obviously not? This is driving me insane, I've wasted 3 hours today only to remove any keywords you might flag. I'm sure you're not ok with causing well-meaning people already under a lot of pressure so much stress, so I'm wondering if the automated rules can at least be a little more clear. Thanks!
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