Changes to the guidelines
The community guidelines say that when we change something significant, we'll say so and explain why. This is that record — every change, newest first, with the reason for it.
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2026-09-10 significant change
Said plainly that businesses reach people here by buying advertising, and that ordinary posts written to sell something will be removed.
This was already covered by the rule about spam, which meant it was covered by a word almost nobody reads as being about them. Advertising here is looked at by a person before anybody sees it, and a post that skips that is taking something the people who paid for it did not get. The line deliberately leaves room for being proud of your own work: what is out is a post whose job is to get you to buy something.
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2026-08-30 significant change
First published.
These are the rules this place runs on. Every change to them from here on appears above this line, with the reason for it.