Community Guidelines

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Community Guidelines

Welcome to Discuss - Always Free Tools — a community for finding (and building) free alternatives to the paid tools we rely on every day.

Our Mission

Help each other spend less and ship more by:

  • Sharing the paid tools we pay for, and what we’d actually need from a free alternative
  • Building those alternatives — sometimes solo, sometimes with the community
  • Surfacing the best community-built tools to alwaysfreetools.com, with full credit to the maker

:white_check_mark: What’s Welcome

  • Genuine “Find me a free alternative” requests — be specific about your scenario
  • Show & Tell of tools you’ve built or discovered, open-source or not, as long as the page works without payment
  • Ideas, observations, market gaps — the kind of thing you’d jot down on a napkin
  • Polite disagreement and constructive critique
  • English or Chinese — the translator plugin bridges the gap

:prohibited: What’s Not Welcome

  • Affiliate links, referral codes, or hidden incentives (zero tolerance)
  • Self-promotion of unrelated products without contribution
  • LLM-generated filler posts and karma farming
  • Drive-by negativity (e.g. “X sucks”) without alternative or argument
  • Piracy, credential trading, account sharing, or any illegal content
  • Cross-posting the same request to multiple categories

:clipboard: Posting Quality

  • Use the topic template in each category — it’s there to help both you and readers
  • Tag your post with the correct Tool Type — that’s how others discover it
  • One specific request per topic — don’t bundle three paid tools into one thread
  • Asking for help? Include what you tried, what failed, and your environment
  • Sharing a build? Include a live demo, source if public, and the tech stack

:shield: How We Moderate

  • We assume good faith first and warn before banning
  • Edits are visible in post history; nothing is silently changed
  • Bans are appealable via the Meta category
  • Our principle: prefer to remove the post, not the person

:globe_with_meridians: Connection to alwaysfreetools.com

  • Outstanding community tools may be featured on the main site, with full credit
  • Featuring requires your consent — say so in your Show & Tell post
  • We never claim ownership of your work; we curate and link out

:megaphone: Reporting

Use the :triangular_flag: Flag option on any post to alert moderators. For severe issues (harassment, illegal content, doxxing), DM @aft directly.

These guidelines evolve with the community. Suggest improvements in :globe_with_meridians: Meta.

Last updated: 2026-05-17

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