I Posted on Reddit 5 Times in March. Not One Made It Through.

March is over. Final count for my Korean data scrapers on Apify: 91 users, ~11,400 runs, and roughly $110-130 in revenue . None of it came from Reddit. Not for lack of trying. The March Reddit Report Card Post Subreddit Result Self-promo comment r/webscraping 144 views (the comment, not a post) [OC] Melon chart viz r/dataisbeautiful Spam filter — removed Korean music insight r/Korea Awaiting moderator approval K-pop data discussion r/kpop Spam filter — removed MCP server showcase r/mcp Spam filter — pending 5 attempts. Current karma: 1 . The one "success" was a comment on r/webscraping's monthly self-promotion thread — not even a post. Why This Happens New Reddit accounts are in a sandbox. The platform doesn't trust you yet, and it shouldn't — it has to filter out bots and spammers at scale. The rules aren't explicit, but through experimentation, here's what I found: Day 1-30 : Most link posts get filtered, especially in niche subs. New accounts with no post history look identical to s