Compliance guides

Market on Reddit & X without getting banned

Straight, no-hype guides to the rules that actually decide whether an account survives: what triggers a ban or a shadowban, how the 90/10 self-promotion norm works in practice, and where each platform's terms draw the line on automation.

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Written by the team building the compliant way to do it — and useful whether or not you ever open an account.

Guides in the collection7

Sections of written guidance36

Questions answered outright14

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Reddit rulebook · 5 Beyond Reddit · 2 What we do about it The 90/10 ratio

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The Reddit rulebook, in 5 guides.

What Reddit actually removes people for, and what it merely regulates. Read in order if you have never posted about your product; jump straight to the one you need if you have.

Reddit marketing without getting banned8 sectionsA practical 2026 guide to Reddit marketing that doesn’t get you banned: the 90/10 rule, what triggers shadowbans, and how to promote on your own account, compliantly.Reddit self-promotion rules4 sectionsWhat you can and can’t do when promoting on Reddit in 2026: the 90/10 rule, disclosure, subreddit-specific rules, and the practices that get accounts removed.The Reddit 90/10 rule3 sectionsThe 90/10 rule is Reddit’s self-promotion norm: at most 10% of your activity should be promotional. Here’s how to apply it without getting flagged.Avoiding a Reddit shadowban7 sectionsA shadowban makes your posts invisible without warning. Here’s what triggers one in 2026 and how to keep your account healthy while marketing.Is Reddit automation against ToS?7 sectionsNot all Reddit automation is against the rules — but some kinds will get you banned. Here’s the line between compliant API use and the automation Reddit punishes.

Beyond Reddit

What every platform's terms actually say

Automation is not banned anywhere we operate; unattended, undisclosed, at-scale automation is. These 2 guides cover where each line sits and what a compliant setup looks like.

X (Twitter) automation rules, explained

What X allows when it comes to automation and bulk activity, which API tier you need to post, and how to automate replies without risking suspension.

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Social media automation, compliantly

Every platform allows some automation and bans some. Here’s the common-sense framework for automating Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook without risking your accounts.

4 sections · 2 questions answered

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In practice

The advice, executed

FounderReply does the compliant version of everything in these guides. Here is the whole of it, stated as what always happens and what never does.

How FounderReply acts on your accounts

No tool can promise you will never be banned. What a tool can do is refuse to do the things that get you banned.

Always

Acts only on accounts you connected yourself, under a credential you can withdraw from that network’s own settings.

Starts every action gated. Nothing goes out until you release it, on any plan, unless you raised that dial yourself.

Names the platform rule you are crossing, and the risk to the account, before it saves a looser setting — and writes your decision to the audit log.

Paces activity like a person: no burst posting, no identical text across communities.

Reads a community’s own rules before it drafts anything for that community.

Never

Moves a dial for you. No plan, upgrade or default raises an action from held to unattended.

Creates or operates fake personas, sockpuppets or bot networks.

Touches votes, follows or any other engagement metric on your behalf.

Blasts the same link or the same text across many communities.

Hides that an account belongs to you when a community asks for disclosure.

The ratio the rulebook turns on

Nine parts useful. One part yours.

Reddit's widely-cited norm is that no more than about one action in ten should be self-promotional. Accounts that invert the ratio are the ones that get flagged — not the promotion itself. All 5 Reddit guides above are some face of that one rule, and the cross-platform ones rhyme with it.

Where readers go next

Subreddit rulesPer-community write-ups: what each subreddit allows, and how founders post there without being removed.Read The approval queueThe gate the guides keep describing, as a product: every draft waits until you release it.Read Tool comparisonsHow the other tools in the category handle the same rules, with dated claims and honest concessions.Read

Put the guides to work

Read the rules, then use them.

Your own connected accounts, a credential you can withdraw, and a human releasing every reply before it goes out. All 7 guides stay free either way.

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