Answer the immediate question, explain what your resource adds, and let the reader choose. Use editable replies for the full resource, an in-thread summary, a decline, or no response.
An offer and four ways to follow through
When a guide, checklist, example, or tool adds useful detail beyond an answer you can give right here.
An offer and four ways to follow through
Only after an explicit request for the full resource, and only if the community permits the link. Reply publicly by default.
An offer and four ways to follow through
When the reader asks for the steps here, wants one section, or cannot access the full resource.
An offer and four ways to follow through
An optional brief acknowledgment if it helps close an active exchange. No reply is also fine; stop the offer either way.
An offer and four ways to follow through
For your own notes only. Silence is not permission; do not post this card to Reddit or send it as a message.
When an extra resource is worth offering
Offer a resource when someone has a specific problem, the material directly helps with that problem, and the community permits this kind of sharing. A checklist can make a repeated process easier; a worked example can clarify a difficult step. If a short answer solves the whole problem, just give the answer. Do not manufacture a conversation to distribute a link. Reader interest and community permission are separate checks: asking first does not guarantee acceptance or prevent removal.
Jump to product
Use the template page as the entry point, then move into subreddit discovery, timing, and safer execution paths.
Customization
Say whether it is a checklist, article, spreadsheet, video, code sample, or interactive tool. Name the exact job it helps with, such as preparing a reproducible bug report, rather than promising a complete growth system.
Give an honest reading or setup estimate and anything needed to use it. A five-minute checklist and a workbook that needs an hour of data entry are different offers. If you have not checked the length, describe the format without inventing a time estimate.
State whether access requires an email, account, subscription, or payment before asking if they want it. Identify who made it and whether you are its author, an employee, an affiliate, a customer, or unaffiliated. Disclose compensation where it applies.
Write the one or two steps the reader can apply now. If the advice only says to read your document, the offer is not ready. Keep the resource optional even when it contains more detail.
How to use
Read the question, existing answers, and current community rules. If resource offers or promotional links are prohibited, give a standalone answer instead. If the rules are unclear, resolve that with moderators before making the offer.
Deliver the practical steps in your opening comment. Briefly explain the resource format, task, time cost, access conditions, and your relationship. Let the reader choose whether more detail is useful.
Full resource: share the permitted link with context. Summary only: provide the requested steps here without a link. Decline: stop, with at most a brief acknowledgment. No reply: take no further action and keep any tracking note private.
Public replies are the default. Agreeing to see a resource does not mean agreeing to a DM, sales outreach, email collection, or a subscription. A private channel needs a separate explicit request and must comply with community rules; do not use it to bypass a public restriction.
Examples
Avoid
I wrote a huge guide on this exact topic. Read it here: [Link]
Better
For a useful bug report, write the exact action that fails and what you expected instead. Add the smallest example that reproduces it, with private data removed. I wrote a one-page checklist for this; it takes about five minutes to read and needs no signup. Would the full checklist help, or do you just want the reproduction steps here?
Illustrative author offer: the reader receives useful advice immediately and can judge the extra material. Use the authorship, length, and access claims only if they describe your actual resource.
Avoid
Sure, I can summarize it. Send me your email and I will get you into the sequence.
Better
Here are the reproduction steps you asked for: start with a clean session, perform only the action that triggers the bug, then record the expected and actual result. Remove tokens and customer data from any sample. If it only fails with a specific input, describe that condition too.
Illustrative summary-only response: it delivers the requested slice of advice in public without turning a request for help into a subscription or lead form.
Mistakes
Yes to a summary means a summary. Yes to an example means an example. Neither response is a request for the entire resource, a private message, or a signup form.
An opening that only says 'I have a framework' makes the reader work before receiving help. Put practical advice in the first comment, even if nobody ever asks for more.
No reply does not tell you why someone stayed silent. Leave the offer alone. Do not bump it, try a DM, tag the reader again, or treat them as a lead to chase.
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Next step
Start with the discussion, contribute something useful, and let the reader choose whether to explore further.