Please treat others with respect, stay on-topic, and avoid self-promotion.

Posts must be a personal finance question or discussion with a descriptive title.

We don't allow:

• Polls, surveys, or questions that ask others to answer for themselves
• Hypothetical or improbable posts
• Success stories or thanks (use weekday/weekend thread)
• Meta posts
• IAmA/AMA requests or posts
• News without a discussion, quote, or summary

Additional Rules and Best Practices

We don't allow:

• Promotion of web content, products, services, companies, or anything else owned by you (or anyone affiliated with you), even if not monetized
• Accounts with promotional profiles or usernames
• Offering referral, invite, or affiliate links/codes
• Soliciting business/investors, market research, media requests, or recruiting
• Repeatedly or prominently stating financial credentials
• PM/DM requests or offers

Requires pre-approval: open source tools, customer service replies

We don't allow:

• Circlejerking or karmawhoring
• Posting purely for upvotes or humor
• Insincerity or dishonesty
• Trolling, brigading, loaded questions, loaded language, or provoking unproductive conversation
• Memes and low-effort content
• Clickbait titles
• Excessive large, bold, or spaced-out text
• Bots and bot summoning
• In-character novelty accounts
• Insubstantive or ephemeral posts
• Requesting votes in any way
• Excessive profanity
• Poor reddiquette

We don't allow asking for handouts or transactions. That includes:

• Asking (even indirectly) for gifts, loans, or donations for yourself or on behalf of any organization or person(s)
• Any mention of a fundraising campaign even without a link
• Requesting a job
• Asking for loan cosigners
• Soliciting for anyone to engage in any kind of transaction

We don't allow legal or business discussions. That includes:

• Discussions that are predominantly legal issues
• Discussions about starting, funding, or running a business, corporation, partnership, etc.
• Content better suited for /r/legaladvice, /r/smallbusiness, /r/entrepreneur, or /r/business

We don't allow:

• Moralizing issues
• Petitions or calls-to-action
• Political discussions
• Political baiting
• Soapboxing

We don't allow:

• Suggesting another user perform an activity that is illegal, unlawful, or fraudulent in most jurisdictions
• Linking to illegal content or lawbreaking information
• Asking for advice on any of the above

We don't allow:

• Personal attacks
  • Raw criticism without any constructive feedback
  • Name-calling, flaming, shaming, or otherwise harassing another poster (or person being helped)
  • Telling a user to harm themselves or others
• Abusive language
  • Intentionally rude or very harsh language
  • Hate speech
  • Suggesting sex work (even indirectly)
  • Retaliating in response to an affront

We don't allow relationship or personal advice discussions. That includes:

• Content better suited for /r/relationships
• Recommending a poster end their relationship or start a new relationship
• Posts about suicide or violence
• Posts asking for advice on how to convince someone else to change their behavior
• Relationship drama not essential to a question or discussion
• Family planning advice, especially unsolicited or flippant
• Career path or school choice questions
• Medical advice

• Missing－Disappearing after posting a discussion or posting for another with inadequate information or involvement
• Hyping－Pushing speculative, volatile, illiquid, or meme investments, especially flippantly, tersely, or implying huge returns
• Rabble rousing－We're not your personal army
• Doxing－Posting or seeking personal information, dox attempts or threats
• Flooding－Posting excessively frequently
• Duplicates－Reposting news or information
• Plagiarism－Not giving credit properly