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Glossary · term169 of 202

self-promotion flag

A marker Reddit or a scraper applies to a post where the author is promoting their own project, used here as one signal for classifying a post as a launch.

also written as self-promo flag

Related terms
launch postA post announcing a newly built or released project, identified by a self-promotion flag or a title opening with a first-person build verb like built or released.view term->relevance filterA rule that discards scraped posts judged off-topic before counting or analysis begins, so the remaining pool reflects only genuinely relevant items.view term->
At a glance
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1 post
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first used
jul 2026
Appears in
  • Open Source Has a Distribution Problem, Not a Building ProblemOpen source distribution decides whether your project gets found. A one-week census of 106 launches, and the title that scored 154 in one sub and 1 in another.meta-analysis1 min
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