Reddit: Karma First, Selling Second

Reddit is the one platform where selling on day one gets you erased before a single buyer sees you. Brand-new accounts with no history get auto-filtered and quietly removed, ignored by moderators and the ranking system alike. The platform reads a fresh account with a promo link as spam and treats it that way until you prove otherwise. So your first move is not your best teaser. It is earning the right to post at all.

Treat the account like an asset

Think of the account the way you think of your page: something that gains value over time. Spend the first stretch building karma and history. Post and comment in normal, non-promo communities you actually care about, a hobby, a city sub, a fandom, whatever you would read anyway. Answer questions, share opinions, be a person.

Get verified in the subs that require it. Verification is often the one gate between filtered on arrival and allowed to post. Then read each sub's rules line by line. They are strict and specific, and the humans enforcing them tend to ban first and discuss never.

What the slow start looks like in practice

Instead of dropping a teaser into a big NSFW sub in week one, spend a couple of weeks commenting in smaller niche subs that fit your angle, finish the photo-and-sign verification those subs ask for, and only then post a curiosity-driven teaser that points back to your profile and free page. Now when a moderator or a scroller checks your history, they find a real account with a track record instead of a burner that showed up yesterday to sell something.

• Comment in non-promo subs you actually follow to build karma
• Finish verification in every sub that requires it
• Read each subreddit's rules before you post anything
• Let a real history build before your first teaser goes up
• Point teasers back to your profile and free-trial page

Reputation is the machine, content is the withdrawal

The patience feels expensive, because everyone wants the first post to convert. It will not, and chasing that is exactly what gets accounts torched. Reputation is the thing that compounds here. Once the account is trusted, your teasers inherit that trust, and the free-trial link in your profile starts pulling steady traffic instead of vanishing into a filter.

Treat the slow start as a business decision. You are building something that pays out for months, while the accounts that rush the sell rarely get to make a second post. Reddit is patient with people who act like they plan to stay, and quick to remove the ones who act like they need money tonight. Build the reputation first and the selling gets easy later.