r/opensource bars AI projects and requires a year of maintenance for promotion
The subreddit also wants promoted projects to have multiple contributors and an existing community, and requires posters to have a year-old Reddit account with significant activity.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: reddit.com
Why it matters
The rules make one subreddit a tougher place to promote new or solo-maintained open-source projects, while leaving moderators to decide what counts as obvious AI use. That discretion is already drawing questions about how consistently the rules will apply.
Moderators of Reddit's r/opensource are tightening rules for project promotions, excluding projects that use AI, are made by AI, or are intended for AI. The new criteria also require promoted projects to be actively maintained for at least a year, have multiple contributors (subjectively, three or more), and have an existing community. Projects need an OSI license; common school projects and requests for maintainers or contributors are also out.…
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