Found a dead simple way to get my posts seen on Reddit without getting banned

I've been on this platform for about 8 years now and I remember when you could just drop a link and people would click it. Those days are gone. Last month I was trying to share a blog post I wrote about local zoning laws and censorship and it got flagged within 10 minutes. I tried a different approach after watching some guy on YouTube talk about how Reddit bots scan for certain patterns. Instead of linking anything, I wrote a super detailed personal story about how the city council tried to block a resident from speaking at a meeting. Then I just mentioned I had the full transcript on my site if anyone wanted to dig deeper. That post got 400 upvotes and 30 people asked for the link. No ban, no removal, just actual engagement. Has anyone else figured out a trick like this that works on the strict newer platforms?

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smith.nancy1mo ago

Oh man, I tried that once and accidentally started a whole neighborhood feud over someone's cat being on the wrong porch.

troy_price1mo ago

Honestly, that personal story method is gold. Ngl I did the same thing last week on a local news sub, wrote a long post about a neighborhood issue and just casually dropped that I'd put the city documents on my site, got way more traction than any direct link ever did.

evan_cooper731mo ago

troy_price nailed it with that personal story method. I tried something similar on a gardening sub last spring. Instead of linking to my seed exchange spreadsheet, I wrote about how I accidentally grew 40 tomato plants from one packet of seeds and had to give them away to neighbors. At the end I just mentioned I'd put together a list of hardy varieties on my own site if anyone wanted to check it out. Got over 200 upvotes and a dozen people asking for the link. It felt more like real conversation than just dropping a URL and running. The trick is making it feel like a natural part of the story, not a sales pitch.