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Cool. I just started using Reddit, but is it ok if I link to my website instead? I'd rather people check that out first.

As long as the end of the link is a comic, it can point anywhere - it's not a specific resource for any hosting platform, but resource of webcomics.

Personally I would prefer it that it in general points to the most complete form of a webcomic (to support it's nature as primarily a resource for people looking to read comics) but nothing to that regard will be enforced.

As for blogs, reviews, or art sites; those are more then welcome in the comments of a link to a comic, but the top level links should take a user to a comic when they click it; imo that makes a better user experience with the lowest bar to reading comics, which is what the subreddit is all about!

I hate to be "That guy", but you need to be careful with "vote manipulation" on reddit. If you are caught you can (and will) have your account shadow banned. Having one or two friends upvote you is okay, but if an entire community gets on board there is a higher chance this "scheme" can get found out (especially if you plan it out a public forum).

Those initial votes CAN be helpful, but be careful. If the normal reddit users don't care for your content they will equalize the votes and send you back down in a matter of moments.

Also, if you do get into the habit of ONLY posting your comic Reddit will take notice and put you on "watch list". Especially if you are discovered of "vote manipulation" by asking for votes on Twitter, or other publicly available sites online. If you cross the line Reddit can consider you a spammer, and down comes the ban hammer.

Again, I hate to be that guy, but don't treat Reddit as a means to market your comic. Like Tapastic, it is a community. And they can sniff out schemes pretty easily. So be careful.

Good luck!

I'm aware of those rules, and you are right, but I do want to point out a few things! As the original post in the thread says the 10%/90% global rule still applies - if more than 10% of your posts are self-promotion (ie: links to your content) you are risk of a shadowban; this is true and I encourage people to keep that in mind as it out of my control of as the moderator of this subreddit.

Second; no one here has directly requested the votes of other members for their comics; merely by directing submissions and traffic to the subreddit, it's well within boundries; keeping in mind that sort of behavior is rarely directly enforced by the admin staff as is (there are very small compared to user base) and the moderation staff of this subreddit is just me.

And third... I made the subreddit for people to submit their comics to it! While it has (enforced) anti-spaming rules to prevent, shall we say, insistent promotion, it's for the purpose of people sharing long form story comics, so no one is going to complain about rule abiding submissions! Reddit is not exactly a monolithic community, and the goal here is build a subsection of that community that is looking for and looking to enjoy submissions of long form story webcomics.

I did give this a fair amount of thought to make sure we are building a community tool valuable to both readers and creators, and hope that people can both find new readers and new comics to read through it across all comic communities.

PS To General Topic: I am still fighting with the Spam Filter on Tapastic submissions. Feel free to submit direct Taptastic links and I WILL fish them out of spam, so don't panic. Feel free to ping me with a message if you like, but I will find and approve it through.

Bump! And yes, make sure that 90% of your contribution to Reddit is regular comments and only up to 10% is a link to your own comic! It's VERY important!

This is really nice, I'll join. Can I post more than one link in one post? Other than Tapastic, I have two facebook pages, one for the English version and another one with the original Italian, with a lot more pages (untill we catch up). In case someone wants to see waht's going on now.

I don't know if you can do that. When you submit a link, it's just one - unless you submit a regular comment and then add the link there? Really not sure, sorry. But if you point to a site where you have your other links up, I guess that would work.

BTW, I just noticed I know you from somewhere! I'll send you a message there smile

I actually saw your avatar around on that "elsewhere", but I didn't realize it was you in this topic. Funny. Small world.

10 days later

I think this subreddit is important, have you tried becoming affiliated with rcomics and rwebcomics? Having them link to this subreddit on the side would be super helpful promotion.