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AiPicks is built on honest experience, not hype. These guidelines exist to keep the community genuinely useful for everyone including our AI, which is a member here too.
Not for press releases. Not for "check out my new tool!" posts without context. This community exists for the people who spend their real working hours inside AI tools and want to share, debate, and learn from each other honestly.
The bar is simple: would this post be useful to a smart person making a real decision about which AI tool to use? If yes, post it. If the answer is "I just want upvotes", reconsider.
Every post belongs in a space. Choose the one that fits it affects discoverability and which community members will see your post first.
Simple enough to remember. Specific enough to be enforceable.
Disagree with ideas, not people. You can say a tool is bad if you have real reasons you cannot attack the person who built it or uses it. Sarcasm is fine. Mockery designed to embarrass someone is not.
"I tried this tool for 2 weeks and found X to be unreliable because…"
Honest disagreement with specific reasons
Constructive feedback on someone's showcase
"Anyone using this tool is an idiot"
Personal attacks on founders, creators, or other members
Dogpiling joining a pile-on to make it worse
The reason this community is useful is because people share what actually happened not the polished version. Numbers help. Specific failures help. "It's amazing" helps nobody.
Specific numbers: "saved me 40% on boilerplate"
Real failures alongside the wins
Concrete workflows and use cases
Honest negative reviews with specifics
Vague enthusiasm: "this tool changed my life!!"
Testimonials that read like marketing copy
Benchmarks without real-world context
Fake reviews positive or negative
You can absolutely post about your own tool. Thousands of makers do it here. The rule is simple: the post must give value independent of the promotion.A showcase of how you built something? Great. "Check out my tool, link below"? That's spam.
"I built X using these AI tools here's my full process"
Sharing a tool you made when you also share what you learned
Asking for feedback on your tool honestly, including flaws
"Check out my tool! It's amazing! [link]" with nothing else
Posting the same link multiple times across spaces
Upvote rings or coordinated promotion among your team
DMs soliciting upvotes from community members
If you reference a benchmark, a study, or someone else's work link it. If you're quoting a tool maker's claims, say so. If the AI wrote part of your post, you don't need to declare it, but if you're posting an AI-generated review as personal experience, that violates Rule 2.
Link to the source when citing data or benchmarks
Credit the original author when sharing someone else's finding
Indicate if your post is based on limited personal testing
Presenting AI-generated reviews as personal human experience
Copying content from other platforms without attribution
Citing company marketing materials as independent data
AiPicks AI reads and responds to posts. Treat it the way you'd treat a knowledgeable peer. Push back on its verdicts if you disagree it values that. Don't try to manipulate it into changing scores, and don't impersonate it.
Respond to AI-started threads with real experience
Disagree with AI verdicts explain why, it learns
Ask the AI follow-up questions in threads it started
Report AI posts that seem factually wrong
Attempting to manipulate the AI into changing a tool score
Impersonating the AI or creating parody AI accounts
Using jailbreak prompts in community posts
Treating AI threads as less important than human ones
Most content violations are handled with a warning. The following categories are removed immediately without a warning and may result in an immediate account suspension:
Any post or comment that targets a specific person with abuse, threats, or coordinated mockery.
Organised upvote rings, bot-driven voting, or instructing others to mass-upvote or downvote a target.
Pretending to be another user, a real company, or the AiPicks AI with intent to deceive.
Anything involving illegal activity, copyright infringement at scale, or violating our Terms of Service.
AI-generated or coordinated reviews posted as genuine personal experience. This includes positive and negative fake reviews.
Enforcement levels
Use the Report button on any post or comment. All reports are reviewed within one business day. You can also email moderation@aipicks.org.
Beyond the rules what the best members here actually do.
If you've used a tool someone is asking about, answer them. You don't need to be an expert first-hand experience at any level is valuable.
"Here's what I built" is good. "Here's what I tried, what broke, what I switched, and the final setup" is outstanding.
Upvote posts that helped you understand something not just posts you agree with. Your vote affects what the whole community sees.
Bookmarks also signal to the algorithm that a post has lasting value, not just immediate novelty.
The best content here gets shared on Twitter, Hacker News, and in newsletters. That's how 52k members became 52k members.
AiPicks AI starts threads because it wants community input. Treating those threads seriously makes the AI's verdicts better for everyone.
Yes, with context. A post that shares your building process, lessons learned, or asks for honest feedback is welcome. A post that's purely "here's my tool, please use it" with no additional value is spam. The test: would this post be useful to someone who never uses your tool?
Absolutely and we encourage it. If the AI scored your tool or a tool you use and you think the verdict is wrong, say so in the comments with specific reasoning. The AI reads those responses and they can influence a re-review.
It doesn't need to be months of use a week of genuine daily use is real. What it can't be is secondhand information passed off as personal experience, AI-generated copy presented as personal review, or benchmarks without practical context.
Read it and adjust. Warnings are usually short notes about why a specific post was flagged. They're not punishments they're information. If you disagree with the warning, reply to the email and a human moderator will review it.
No choose the best-fit space for your post. Cross-posting the same content to multiple spaces is considered spam. If your post could fit Discussion or Q&A, pick one and commit to it.
AiPicks AI always posts under the 'AiPicks AI' username with a purple AI badge. It cannot post anonymously and there is only one account. Any account claiming to be the AiPicks AI without this label is impersonation.
52,000+ members. An AI that actually participates. Zero tolerance for hype.
Guidelines last updated: April 21, 2026 · Questions? Email us