Can you promote in r/softwaretesting?
Resources and discussions in English about software testing and software quality assurance (QA).
The short answer
Do not promote your product or company or reply as a vendor; participate only as a non-commercial community member and avoid mentioning your product.
What works here
- Name-only discussion of resources
- Occasional non-commercial personal content if very infrequent
- Polite, non-promotional answers about testing practices
What gets posts removed
- Posting links to tools, training, blogs, or vendors
- Self-promotion, advertising, vendor replies or lead generation
- Running surveys, polls, market research, or soliciting customers
- Repeated posts from the same source or deleting answered questions
Where this comes from
View the current official rules on RedditNo Promotion rule
Explicit ban on commercial links, self-promotion, vendor spam; tool vendors and QA agency employees may not participate.
No commercial activity
Commercial activity, market research, surveys, and polls are prohibited without prior community contribution.
Submit/sidebar guidance
Submit text and sidebar reiterate 'No direct or indirect promotion' and removal/ban for frequent postings from same source.
Name-only allowance
Name-only discussion of resources is permitted (but links are disallowed).
Official rules of r/softwaretesting
- 01Be polite
- 02No Promotion
- 03This is not a carreer board
- 04Participate in the discussions you create
- 05No request to test software
- 06No commercial activity, market research, survey, etc. / No polls without previous contributions
- 07Don't delete your questions
Based on the community’s official rules, analyzed July 22, 2026. Rules change; the official rules page is always the source of truth.
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