<b>This week on Reddit marketing: giveaways that build karma, not bans</b>

<b>This week on Reddit marketing: giveaways that build karma, not bans</b>

This week's threads on running promotions the community actually welcomes.

— [Tactic] Always clear a giveaway with mods first — unapproved ones read as vote-buying and get nuked (r/AskModerators)
— [Case] A tool maker ran a 'comment your use case to enter' giveaway and harvested 80 real testimonials (r/SaaS)
— [Rule-change] Reddit policy bars requiring off-site follows to enter, so keep entry on-platform (r/help)
— [Tactic] Pick winners transparently with a public RNG link; suspected rigging kills future goodwill (r/Entrepreneur)
— [Tool] Subreddit-specific giveaway threads (some subs have a dedicated weekly one) (r/giveaways)

Editor's pick: the use-case-to-enter mechanic — a giveaway that doubles as market research, which is the only kind worth the mod-approval hassle.