Reddit Content Policy

The Reddit Content Policy is the company's official, sitewide set of rules governing what users and communities may post and how they must behave. It applies across all of Reddit and is enforced by administrators in addition to the individual rules each subreddit's moderators set locally. The policy is organized around a small number of core rules covering prohibitions on harassment, bullying, and threats of violence; content that incites violence or promotes hate based on identity or vulnerability; sharing or threatening to share someone's private information or non-consensual intimate media; sexual content involving minors; impersonation; spam and content manipulation (including vote manipulation, ban evasion, and subscriber fraud); and illegal activity or transactions.

The Content Policy has evolved substantially over Reddit's history, often in response to public controversy. Major revisions accompanied events such as the 2015 ban of harassing communities and the June 2020 update that explicitly prohibited hate and led to the removal of around 2,000 subreddits. Reddit publishes the policy through its help center and supplements it with detailed explainer pages for each rule, plus periodic transparency reports documenting enforcement. The policy is central to debates about free expression, platform responsibility, and consistency of moderation, and it forms the legal and operational backbone for both administrator action and subreddit-level governance.