# Reddit participation brief and thread record

Use this worksheet to choose one subreddit, read its current rules and prepare one contribution. Publishing is optional. Leave every result field blank until a real person or moderator responds.

## 1. Customer and room

**Intended customer:**  

**User, buyer and referrer:**  

**Problem they discuss:**  

**Candidate subreddit and link:**  

**Date checked:**  

**Evidence that the intended customer participates:**  

**Who appears most often in the conversation:**

- [ ] Intended users
- [ ] Buyers
- [ ] Referrers
- [ ] Peers
- [ ] Other founders
- [ ] I can't tell yet

**If the customer isn't clearly present, what route connects this room to them?**  

**Fit decision:**

- [ ] Continue the room read
- [ ] Find stronger evidence that the customer is here
- [ ] Choose another subreddit
- [ ] Use a private route because the subject is sensitive
- [ ] Stop using Reddit for this customer

## 2. Room read

Record the exact wording or link instead of summarizing a rule from memory.

| Check | What the community currently says or does | Source or example | Date checked | What it means for this contribution |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Description and purpose |  |  |  |  |
| Full community rules |  |  |  |  |
| Pinned posts |  |  |  |  |
| Recurring threads |  |  |  |  |
| Required flair or format |  |  |  |  |
| Product and self-promotion rule |  |  |  |  |
| Outbound-link rule |  |  |  |  |
| Commercial disclosure rule |  |  |  |  |
| AI-content and AI-disclosure rule |  |  |  |  |
| Account-age, karma or verified-email condition |  |  |  |  |
| Post Check or other drafting guidance |  |  |  |  |
| Moderator removals or guidance on similar material |  |  |  |  |

**Three recent contributions that show the normal subject and level of detail:**

1.  
2.  
3.  

**Anything still unclear:**  

### Draft mod mail, if needed

Write a short factual question that names the subject, your relationship to it and whether you plan to mention a product or include a link.

> [Draft only. Send through mod mail after your review.]

**Moderator response:**  

**What changed because of it:**  

## 3. Contribution choice

**Choose one:**

- [ ] Reply to a live thread
- [ ] Original post
- [ ] Recurring or weekly thread
- [ ] Ask moderators before drafting
- [ ] Choose another room
- [ ] Stop

**Live thread or proposed subject:**  

**Link, if one exists:**  

**The exact question or reader need:**  

**Why this belongs in the community:**  

**First-hand source material I can support:**  

**Evidence and its limits:**  

**My interpretation or opinion:**  

**Customer, personal, security or confidential details that stay out:**  

**If this is an original post, proposed title:**  

**What the contribution supplies without a click:**  

## 4. Product, link and disclosure decision

**My relationship to the product, service, account or business:**  

| Question | Yes, no or unknown | Evidence or rule |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Does the community permit this product mention here? |  |  |
| Does it help explain the experience or answer the question? |  |  |
| Is my relationship obvious? |  |  |
| Does the contribution still work without it? |  |  |
| Does the community permit this link here? |  |  |
| Does the reader need the linked material? |  |  |
| Is my self-promotional participation below the 10% ceiling? |  |  |
| Is the local rule stricter than 10%? |  |  |

**Decision:**

- [ ] No product mention or link
- [ ] Product mention, no link
- [ ] Product mention and link, permitted and disclosed
- [ ] Use the permitted recurring thread
- [ ] Ask moderators first
- [ ] Don't contribute

**Exact disclosure, if needed:**  

**AI was used:**

- [ ] No
- [ ] Yes, with the current required disclosure recorded below

**Current AI rule and date checked:**  

**Exact AI disclosure:**  

## 5. Draft and response plan

### Draft for approval

> [Paste the complete reply or original post here.]

**Facts to recheck:**  

**Permissions to confirm:**  

**Final human reviewer:**  

**Time available to return to the conversation:**  

**Questions I can answer from evidence:**  

**What I will say when I don't know:**  

**How I will acknowledge and correct an error:**  

**Information I won't discuss:**  

**When I will leave an abusive or repetitive exchange:**  

**If a moderator removes or changes the contribution, I will:**  

- [ ] Read the reason
- [ ] Leave the removed material down
- [ ] Record what happened
- [ ] Use mod mail only when clarification would change future participation
- [ ] Reconsider the room, subject, format or commercial relationship

## 6. Thread record

Complete this section only after a real contribution is published.

**Publication date and link:**  

**Contribution type:**  

**Community rule and AI disclosure rechecked on:**  

| Person or audience type | What they recognized, asked or corrected | My response | Conversation or customer action | Public attention as context |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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|  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |

**Known profile or site visit:**  

**Requested resource or continued conversation:**  

**Trial, join, booking, purchase, return or introduction:**  

**Factual correction:**  

**Moderator action or removal:**  

**Views, upvotes and comments:**  

**What this attempt can tell me:**  

**What this one attempt can't tell me:**  

## 7. Next decision

- [ ] Continue contributing in this room
- [ ] Change the subject, format or product decision
- [ ] Choose another subreddit
- [ ] Use another distribution route
- [ ] Stop for now

**Reason:**  

**Next action:**  

**Date I will review the decision:**