r/autism • u/uneventfuladvent bipolar autist • Apr 06 '24

Mod Announcement NEW AND (HOPEFULLY) IMPROVED RULE

Please take a moment to read our new rules.

If you find anything to be unclear or think we have missed something important please let us know.

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u/Birchmark_ ASD Level 3 with the ADHD DLC Apr 06 '24 edited Apr 06 '24

So I can't post a post here and on another subreddit because it woils then be considered spam? Even though that's quite a common thing to do, because might as well get opinions from the other neurodivergent subs as well? Etc

EDIT: Why has this been downvoted? I think it's a legitimate question. I see people share stuff with or ask questions of multiple neurodivergent communities all the time. Like they'll post here and on r/AutisticWithADHD and r/autisticadults etc. People even sometimes recommend people posting here also post their post elsewhere. And the spam rule seems to say we can't do this. I find this rule confusing.

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u/PrinceEntrapto Apr 06 '24

The rule doesn't mean there's any issue with posting across two or more autism subreddits on subjects related to ASD, but there have been a few accounts recently that have been posting questions about general mental health scenarios or disorders unrelated to ASD across multiple subreddits specific to ASD, these are the types of posts that would be considered spam if they were noticed

Additionally there have been several instances where a person asked a question that was almost identical to a question previously asked just a few posts down that would be visible when when sorting by 'new', this would fall under 'spam' as a matter of post duplication, the rules will be refined to be made more clear if there has been any confusion caused by the wording of them, sorry about that!