Hi All, posting this on behalf of the mod team. Recently, the sub report queue has been filled with reports of AI posts and spam and many new posters, and I felt it might be good to clarify the rules and their intent, and allow the community a say in if they work or don't work as they have been around for a bit now. Rules as Is - October 14, 2026:

1. Keep It Clean and Civil. This is self-explanatory. We want this to be a place people can share, learn and grow and to stay on topic. Generally, we don't see many issues reported here.
2. No Commercial Posting Without Approval. This one is intended to stop sales reps, unauthorized market research, and investor pitching. This is not a subreddit for sales. This is not a subreddit for figuring out your SaaS or ODM/OEM market needs. This is for learning RF and sharing knowledge. We do want to support open source tool development and free educational tools that help those here learn and grow. If you want to share something with a FREE version for hobbyists and/or educational use, please ping the mods - we don't want to block something good, but we also do not take a stance in endorsing any specific product. We don't take sponsorship or partnerships to shill products. If some company or university team wanted to do an AMA (or similar) for technical content sharing and topics, that is something I think we could be open to as a community, but again, we wanted to open the floor to this concept before we accepted any proposals (and no, none are in the pipeline today).
3. No AI Posting/Low Effort Posts This is where the most issues seem to be coming in now. The moderators' intent with this one is the prevent the single sentence "help me design X" posts with no details, the pure AI walls of text, and frankly, the conspiracy theories, as well as AI bot posts. Vibe-coded open source tools were NOT intended to be covered by this third rule as banned. AI generated content isn't strictly prohibited as long as its CLEARLY been reviewed for quality and is used to help bolster the discussion or is trying to contribute to the community. We are open to amending or adding to our rules. Perhaps a clear one could be asking for posts using vibe coding or AI generated content to label it (and we can add a tag for it so posts are labeled as such and can be filtered), or we can make a separate rule or thread.

Do these work as is for now? Do we want to change these? Add to them? We are open to suggestions.

Jobs Topic: Please keep employment discussions to the appropriate threads. Solicitation has a thread pinned at the top of the sub (jobs thread) that we can update. If this is an issue for some reason, let us know so we can address it.

Posting Restrictions/Bot detection: Reddit has automatic karma and behavior restrictions on posting. This is a reality to prevent bot accounts from spamming a sub, but fresh accounts with interactions basically can be auto-labeled as a bot risk before they can post to a subreddit pending other actions the user has taken on the account. We have tried to manually intervene here, but this also gets wrapped into the queue with reports. Please let us know if you see this happening to you. To note - participating in Reddit helps remove this restriction ahead of time. A 10 minute old account created to ask a question looks the same as a fresh bot account to the site filters. We aren't online 24/7, so there is a delay when we have to manually intervene. We DO scan accounts when this happens, so if you are spamming a post to a ton of subs and the content/quality breaks rules or is poor, we can choose to not approve the post.