TLDR: I think Reddit installed hyper-sensitive auto-moderators in 2023, and there's lots of false positives.
Longer answer: I've had the same problem. The weird thing is I've been on Reddit for over a decade without any problems, so I think it's because of the 2023 moderator's strike. Reddit then scrambled around to automate some moderation functions -- and ever since there's been "Post removed" notifications happening in several forums the second you post.
What's frustrating is I think these removals are in error. (Maybe I've somehow tripped several minor red flags, like posting more than commenting or not being subscribed to a forum where I'm posting, so the automation mistakenly "scores" my post as suspect.) But when you message Reddit's (human) moderators... They actually can't tell you why your post was removed. [They don't know what's happening in the black box of the auto-moderation tools, any more than you do.] I've contacted them more than once, and usually they just don't respond. But one said "I'll check into it..." -- and then didn't respond.
The other thing is that a lot of the experienced human moderators left in 2023, so I'd guess the ones they have now are often newbies who don't want to "rock the boat" by questioning or trying to challenge what Reddit's automated tools are doing.
What part of "no advertising or self-promotion" are you struggling to understand?
Look at the subreddits you're posting to: do you see any OTHER posts that look like your "From Calendar Frustration to Productivity: How I Built My Own App to Solve it" post?
I know nothing about the guts of Reddit's filters, but I wouldn't be shocked if there's also an accumulative penalty for posting identical content that's already been removed over again.
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Longer answer: I've had the same problem. The weird thing is I've been on Reddit for over a decade without any problems, so I think it's because of the 2023 moderator's strike. Reddit then scrambled around to automate some moderation functions -- and ever since there's been "Post removed" notifications happening in several forums the second you post.
What's frustrating is I think these removals are in error. (Maybe I've somehow tripped several minor red flags, like posting more than commenting or not being subscribed to a forum where I'm posting, so the automation mistakenly "scores" my post as suspect.) But when you message Reddit's (human) moderators... They actually can't tell you why your post was removed. [They don't know what's happening in the black box of the auto-moderation tools, any more than you do.] I've contacted them more than once, and usually they just don't respond. But one said "I'll check into it..." -- and then didn't respond.
The other thing is that a lot of the experienced human moderators left in 2023, so I'd guess the ones they have now are often newbies who don't want to "rock the boat" by questioning or trying to challenge what Reddit's automated tools are doing.
Look at the subreddits you're posting to: do you see any OTHER posts that look like your "From Calendar Frustration to Productivity: How I Built My Own App to Solve it" post?
I know nothing about the guts of Reddit's filters, but I wouldn't be shocked if there's also an accumulative penalty for posting identical content that's already been removed over again.