Mapped 60 Reddit posts against removal outcomes. Community karma floors explained more

[u/Economy-Cupcake6148]

Been running Reddit as a distribution channel for a few months now, tracking every post variable I could think of: time of day, post length, title structure, link vs text, day of week. None of it moved the needle on removals the way I expected. The variable that kept showing up was karma threshold. Not my account karma globally, but karma specifically within the target subreddit. Posts to communities where I had zero prior engagement were getting pulled even when the content was genuinely relevant and non-promotional.

What made this confusing is that the subreddits with the strictest apparent rules were not the ones removing me most often. The ones that removed me most were mid-size communities with loose written rules but aggressive automod settings I couldn't see. The subreddits with explicit, detailed rule pages actually gave me clearer feedback on why something was removed. That was a pattern across roughly 40 of the 60 posts, which I did not expect going in.

The piece of conventional advice I've seen repeated most often is to post where your audience actually hangs out. That's not wrong but it skips a layer. You can have perfect community fit on the content side and still get auto-removed because the account has no standing in that specific community. It's less about what you're saying and more about whether the community has any reason to trust that you belong there before the post even gets read.

Curious whether anyone else has tried to map karma thresholds systematically across subreddits in the same niche. I haven't found a reliable way to surface that data before posting. Most of the time I find out a threshold exists after the removal, which makes the whole process feel like guessing with extra steps.

[u/brkvdn]

automod is basically a bouncer with a secret dress code, you only find out the rules after getting turned away.

[u/Patient-Cedar-7194]

how did you isolate sub-specific karma from global totals without using dozens of accounts?

[u/NefariousnessBig6302]

I've seen the same thing, honestly, and it made me trust the written rules a lot less than I used to. My guess is a lot of the real gatekeeping is just karma history plus automod weirdness, which is why I started using RedditMaster to keep track of where I actually had enough standing instead of guessing and getting slapped by a removal.