It’s come to my attention lately that there are a variety of platforms and layouts for Reddit - even an Old Reddit and a new (rip). The sub rules are sometimes hard to find, and, even when you can, sometimes they aren’t clear enough.

I’m going to show you how to draft quality personal ads that will attract the attention of the people you’re hoping to connect with, keep you from annoying the others, avoid bad karma and downvotes, and keep your personal from being removed and your account placed on a posting ban. Isn’t that amazing? A WIN/WIN/WIN for posters, readers, AND the moderators!

Everyone say “YAY!”

That was thunderous! You’re all a great group of people! And so kinky too!!!

Okay, let’s get down to it! A post has two main components: the Title (in this case, “A GUIDE to Making High Quality Personals”) and the body (what you’re currently reading). The body is completely optional; you can use it to add detail or color, but nothing is required to be in it.

The Title, however, is what a readers look at while they scan down the long list of posts submitted since their last viewing. It is critical in giving the viewer information of whether they are of interest to the poster, and whether the poster is of interest to them. Therefore, it’s the critical part of a posting. It’s where we require certain information to be.

That information can be summarized as WHO, WHERE, and WHAT. I’ll tackle these one at a time.

• WHO This identifies who is posting. Examples are sissy, CD, trans, MtF, sub, Dom, switch, Daddy, Top, Trainer, Hypnotist. The more descriptive the term you use, the more your ad will attract the type of person you’re hoping to find. One frequent poster often describes themselves as something like “worthless sissy faggot”. That communicates to a reader that the person will accept (and probably desire) a considerable amount of humiliation and degradation. Some people put just age, like “26 TX for training”. Age is probably helpful, but it isn’t who you are; you could be a 26 sissy or a 26 Daddy. Are you seeking training or offering it? That obscurity will degrade your results. Some think that who they are is self explanatory. If I’m looking for a sissy, that means I’m a Dom, right? Wrong! Sissies seek other sissies all the time! Here’s another example of what I see all time - “35m” - translating to 35 year old male. Unfortunately, males are about 95% of the subscribers, leaving me to try to deduce the WHO from the rest of the title. Avoid the obscurity; spell it out!

• WHERE Where you are … or where you are looking (for example, taking a trip to Vegas and looking to have a meetup there) is as important to the reader as who you are. When deciding what to put for a location, keep in mind that many readers use the search filter to find people near them. So choosing “Beantown” will keep you from being viewed by a person who filtered on “Boston”. I’m in MD near DC and Northern VA is in my back yard, too. I can put NoVa as my location, or DMV is used often as an acronym for DC/Maryland/Virginia, but if I want to show up in the most searches, I’d put DC/MD/VA down, to catch the attention of anyone filtering on any of those three locations. Too wide an area (US is one I see often and we’re going to stop accepting) isn’t really helpful to someone trying to evaluate how easy having meetups would be. Large geographic areas like US, Canada, Europe, EU, don’t accomplish that and don’t meet the needs of defining your location. And, some of you are looking for an online thing. No problem; for you, your geographic location isn’t even pertinent - just insert “Online” to your title.

• WHAT A personal ad means someone is looking for something or someone. If that isn’t the case, you’re posting in the wrong sub. Saying “looking” or “seeking” without the WHAT isn’t enough. If you’re posting, we know you’re looking or seeking … seeking WHAT, exactly? Until I know that, I don’t know if I qualify or can help. “Looking for fun” is about as bad as “looking”; how will the reader know what YOU find to be fun? It’s up to you how wide or narrow a ‘net’ you want to cast, but keep in mind that’s what you’re doing when writing your WHAT. Besides, without a clear what, expect your personal to be flagged and/or removed.

Hope this is useful in making full use of the sub

A bientot