r/vottovara

Not because I spammed links or ran ads. Most of the time I was simply sharing things I had made by hand.

* r/GothFashion removed a photo of a pendant I had made for someone going through a special moment in life. The title was: "I made this pendant for a specific person, for a special moment in their life." It was marked as promotional.

* The same subreddit also removed a video called "Transforming wire and a stone into a pendant" with no explanation I could figure out.

* r/pagan removed a photo titled "Made this pendant with an aurora opal that glows like magic" because it was considered promotional.

* r/Fairycore banned me after I posted "Transforming wire and a stone into a pendant" with a photo of the pendant. I still don't know why.

* r/WitchesVsPatriarchy banned me after a post I made on Saturday was reviewed by a moderator on Monday and classified as being posted outside their marketplace day.

* r/goblincore became my biggest mystery. Several of my posts were removed (December 2025, February and May 2026), including "I made a bat. It took me 90 hours of weaving to bring this winged pendant to life" and "I spent hours weaving wire around obsidian until this creature emerged." They were just stories about making fantasy-inspired pendants by hand, so I never quite understood what rule I had crossed.

None of this is catastrophic. Reddit moderators have difficult jobs and every community has the right to set its own rules.

But as someone who makes things by hand, I've realized something strange: sometimes sharing a handmade object or the story behind it is immediately interpreted as promotion, even when there's no shop link, no price, and no invitation to buy. Many of the pieces I posted had already been sold months or years earlier I simply wanted to share the craftsmanship and the stories behind them.

For creators here: how do you share your work and the stories behind it without accidentally crossing into what Reddit considers self-promotion?