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Habr rules
Last edit on — July 8, 2026.
Habr is a place for sharing knowledge and having fun with people interested in technology. To keep it that way, we've established a few simple rules from the very beginning; following them will improve the content and create a more comfortable atmosphere for everyone.
Here's a list of things you shouldn't do on Habr:
1. Unauthorized advertising and self-promotion
Do not use Habr as a platform to promote your (or others') projects, services, products, services, events, or personal brands. If the purpose of a post or comment is to draw attention to something, sell, generate leads or an audience, rather than share knowledge and experience, it is considered advertising.
Posts of an advertising nature are only allowed on company blogs or one-time posts in the "I'm advertising" hub. If the majority of your activity is related to a single company or product, we may suggest setting up a corporate blog or limiting such posts. However, turning a user account into a company blog by filling it with advertising instead of account information is prohibited.
Important: this rule applies not only to posts and comments, but also to usernames, avatars, profile information, and private messages. Do not use logos or names of organizations, projects, services, products, services, or events, and do not post links to resources (channels, blogs, landing pages, documents) whose purpose is sales, customer acquisition, or data collection.
Exceptions:
Branding of corporate blogs. The use of usernames and avatars that match the company name (or product or related projects under its management) is permitted on corporate blogs with an active subscription.
Important: After the subscription ends, new content with such attributes outside the corporate blog will be considered a violation.
Useful links (non-referral, without tags or abbreviations) that are relevant to the topic of the publication and significantly complement the material are welcome.
Links whose primary purpose is sales, lead generation, or other benefits may be removed, even if they formally correspond to the topic.
Job Title. The company name may be included in the job title, but no links or slogans, promotional phrases, or mentions of specific products, courses, or promotions.
Personal Contact Information. Links to personal social media accounts and personal blogs on major blogging platforms should only be included in the designated "Contact Information" field in the profile settings.
Mentioning your contact information and social media resources in any other places, including in your profile or private messages, may be considered intrusive self-promotion.
Technology-focused communities. A one-time mention of relevant social media channels and groups is permitted in the text of a publication. These channels and groups do not bear the company name, do not sell anything, and do not contain bots for sales or data collection. Use a direct link, not an "invitation link."
Repeated mentions of the same channel or community will be considered advertising and removed, including in previously published materials.
Indie projects. App and game developers are allowed to post a link to an app store even if they are monetized.
In controversial situations, Habr independently determines whether a project qualifies as indie.
Fundraising for socially beneficial technology projects. A publication may include one active link (non-referral, without tags or abbreviations) to a well-known crowdfunding platform. However, the project must be genuine, and the published material must be relevant to Habr and be an interesting, full-fledged publication that explains the project's features.
Any other fundraising attempts (including links to fundraising campaigns on social media and other sites, payment services, and the inclusion of card and wallet numbers, including cryptocurrency ones) — both within and outside of publications—are prohibited.
Book Publishing. Users are permitted to include active links (non-referral, without tags or abbreviations) to paid books they have authored (or co-authored) if the book is available in official bookstores, on major marketplaces, or on the publisher's official website.
If this rule is violated, the platform reserves the right to edit or remove advertising information without notifying the author, as well as restrict their rights by switching to ReadOnly mode. Promoting dangerous services or malicious information may result in account deactivation. The final decision on whether material constitutes advertising and violates the rules rests with Habr.
2. Ignoring of Habr's core topics and formats
Habr's subject matter is defined by a list of hubs. Below is a list of items that may be removed within the rules, possibly with demotion of account privileges:
Political discussions. There are far more suitable sites than Habr for discussing political and near-political topics.
Exception: no exceptions. Politics should not be present in any form in posts, comments, avatars, user profiles, or private messages.
Habr is not a complaints site. Habr should not be used for complaints, blackmail, settling scores, or resolving personal issues with employers, telecom operators, banks, hosting companies, service owners, or other individuals or companies. All disputes should be resolved outside of Habr.
Exception: neutral posts about how you encountered a problem, found a solution, and are sharing your experience are acceptable.
Hype and half-baked products, streams of consciousness and AI-driven dialogues, pseudoscientific or anti-scientific materials, and other topics that irritate readers.
This also includes inappropriate and low-quality content, the publication of monotonous, monosyllabic, or generated materials aimed at search engines rather than human readers.
None of the above applies to Habr.
Code listings, lists, polls, and media elements are permitted, provided they do not constitute the main content of the material, without which it would lose its meaning.
The Habr format is focused on publishing narrative text materials, in which the title should clearly indicate the topic. Posts, news, and translations should not be published as regular articles — special publication settings are provided for these formats. When publishing, select only suitable hubs and include relevant keywords.
Important: This rule applies not only to publications, comments, and private messages, but also to avatars, nicknames, and profile information.
3. Violation of typography standards
Texts should be formatted so that people can read them easily and enjoyably. Use the built-in typography tool in the Habr editor to format your materials. Structure your text and divide it into paragraphs so readers don't encounter a "wall of text." Avoid using paragraphs of one or two sentences, or the text will become a list.
Remember that a significant portion of Habr's audience visits mobile devices. Therefore, long blocks of code and large images should be hidden in a spoiler to avoid people having to scroll through them.
Important: Ignoring moderator recommendations regarding publication formatting is considered a violation.
4. Posting generated materials
You should not post texts that are:
partially or completely generated by neural networks or written and edited using neural networks;
consisting solely of generated images;
consisting entirely of dialogues between you and neural networks;
consisting entirely of responses from neural networks.
If your texts appear to be the work of a neural network, a moderator may move the post to drafts and restrict your account rights.
Exception: it is permissible to use neural networks to create a comprehensive text-based content (CDP) and images that supplement the post.
A small percentage of generated content is permitted in large, interesting, specialized, and technical articles, as a supplement to the original text.
5. Swearing, unethical statements, trolling and flooding
It will be more enjoyable to spend time on Habr if the materials and discussions are free of profanity and euphemisms, insults, rudeness and boorishness, personal attacks and speculation, generalizations and labeling, sarcasm and trolling. Treat others as you would like to be treated.
Avoid posting unethical statements (including veiled ones) directed at other users and those who do not use Habr.
Avoid posting the same (or similar) comment under different posts to attract attention or for any other purpose.
Avoid persistently harassing other users (including through threats, blackmail, and provocation) in comments or private messages.
If you want to praise an author or, conversely, point out spelling or punctuation errors, use the private messaging system.
Important: This rule applies not only to publications, their program code and images, comments and private messages, but also to profile information, avatars and usernames.
6. Manipulation of voting results
If you've been granted voting rights in a community, you have the right to vote as you see fit. However, if you monotonously rate the posts and comments of one person or company, mindlessly downvoting everything, your vote may be permanently reset to zero without notice.
Important: this rule also applies to positive ratings — if you use your account solely to boost your rating, the voting function may eventually be disabled, with all previously submitted votes being rolled back.
Use the voting function wisely!
7. Abuse in private messages
Avoid sending the following in bulk private messages on Habr:
requests for invitations, changes to someone's karma, or a post's rating (a notification about new content is considered a request to rate it);
requests for consultations (for questions to IT specialists, use the Habr Q&A and Habr Experts services);
requests for help setting up something or solving a problem;
requests to participate in a survey or express an opinion on something;
offers of services or employment (for job and employee searches, use the Habr Career service);
reviews of the company the user works for, or questions for that company;
any requests aimed at drawing attention to a project, product, event, or service.
8. Creating virtual accounts and circumventing restrictions
It's always nice to talk to smart people, but you shouldn't create additional accounts for this purpose. It doesn't matter whether it's for boosting karma and upvotes for posts or comments, strengthening your argument, posting ads or spam, or especially for bypassing restrictions. In this case, even your main account (not to mention all subsequent ones) could be deactivated.
Do not violate the "one person, one account" principle. A user account is inextricably linked to the person who signed the user agreement. Therefore, the following is prohibited:
Registering an account using someone else's information or for another person;
Registering multiple accounts by one person;
Registering accounts using group or public email addresses;
Using one account by multiple people;
Transferring account access to another person.
An account must not contain information about any legal entity or public association. Turning a user account profile into a company profile or advertising brochure is prohibited.
The list of violations remains open because it's always possible to come up with something not described above. In such cases, moderators rely on common sense and their own sense of what's right. There's no need to debate their decisions or create propaganda about them — if they imposed sanctions, they had a very good reason. Repeated violations may result in more severe sanctions.
As you can see, the rules are simple, and we would appreciate it if you followed them.
Habraethics
These are not recommendations for compulsory implementation, these are the rules of etiquette, to adhere to which is quite simple.
Network etiquette remains network etiquette on Habr.
Respect the opinion of others. It does not have to coincide with yours..
Refuse to post messages aimed only at increasing Habrapower. Strive to just write more interesting and better.
Argumented publication, even if it is contrary to your opinion, should not receive a downvote. One does not have to adapt to your tastes.
If similar topics are repeatedly raised under different pretexts, this does not mean that you have to put a minus. This only means that the problem has not yet been solved.
Each author has his own personality, so if you have already seen such an article somewhere, this does not mean that the message is nothing new and interesting. Read and ponder the author's opinion.
Changes in karma have a much greater responsibility than rating the commentary. 1-2 comments should not become a reason for understating karma.
Do not abuse your voting ability. It is necessary to understand that the downvote is very different from the upvote, downvote depresses the person, and does not develop it. Put upvotes when you like something, but think before you put a downvote, if you didn't like something.
The first comment is not the only comment in the topic. Before evaluating it, read a couple more.
Downvote is not an argument, and, moreover, not a counterargument.
You shouldn't what is not accepted in a civilized society, contrary to laws, morality and ethics.
Do not do to others what you do not want to get from them yourself. Put yourself in the place of the person with whom you communicate. Defend your point of view, but do not offend others.
Help others where you can do it.