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r/dating vs r/dating_advice

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Dating talk room vs case-by-case advice asks

r/dating describes itself as a place to vent, discuss and learn from dating experiences. r/dating_advice’s public description narrows that to advice about specific dating situations—not general debates—and sends longer relationships (over six months) toward relationship_advice or marriage communities.

In our directory, dating is larger (about 6.3M members, rank #126) than dating_advice (about 4.9M, rank #186). Activity samples flip the volume story: dating_advice posts far more often in our window (~544 posts/day vs ~185), which fits a request-driven advice room. Both samples are essentially all text. Our directory lists each name among the other’s related communities.

Rule titles underline the split: dating bans r4r ads and spam and requires civility; dating_advice bans pickup-artist/red-pill language, generalizations and gender-war framing, and flags off-topic or low-effort asks.

  • Choose r/dating to discuss or vent about dating in general under its civility and no-ads rules.
  • Choose r/dating_advice when you have a specific dating situation and want advice—not a broad debate.
  • Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut, so SubMouse opens them via the info tool rather than a full /r/ page.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/dating

/r/dating: vent, discuss, learn!

A subreddit to discuss and explore the dating process and learn from the experiences of others

Members
6.3M
7-day growth
+1.5K
Posts/day
184.6
Directory rank
#126
Created
Mar 2, 2008
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Dating

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Be polite and respect each other. Give good, ethical advice.
  • This is not the place to try and get a date
  • Stay on topic. No r4r ads, spam, advertisements or promotional content.
  • No Personal Information
  • No harmful or hateful rhetoric
  • No reposting

Open r/dating on SubMouse

About this community: r/dating is for venting, discussing, and learning about the dating process from others’ experiences—not for posting personal ads. Rank #126 (about 6.3 million subscribers). Rules ban trying to get a date here, r4r ads, spam, and harmful rhetoric; NSFW must be marked.

r/dating_advice

Dating Advice

this sub is for advice about specific dating situations not general debates. posts about relationships longer than 6 months post go to r/relationship_advice or if you are married post to r/marriage

Members
4.9M
7-day growth
+7.2K
Posts/day
543.7
Directory rank
#186
Created
Sep 27, 2010
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Advice, Dating

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • No hate-speech, personal attacks, or harassment
  • Spam / Advertising/ Solicitation of Dms
  • Pickup Artist / Red pill language /MGTOW
  • Off-topic / Low-effort
  • Self-pity
  • Repetitive topic
  • Generalizations & Gender war
  • Body Count

Open r/dating_advice on SubMouse

About this community: r/dating_advice (#186, about 4.9 million) is for advice on specific dating situations—not general debates. Its own description steers relationships longer than six months to r/relationship_advice and married topics to r/marriage. Rules bar hate/harassment, PUA/red-pill/MGTOW language, spam/DM solicitation, self-pity, gender-war generalizations, and several other low-value patterns. Text (~543.7 ppd).

Supported differences

Aspectr/datingr/dating_advice
Public focus (from each community’s public description) A subreddit to discuss and explore the dating process and learn from the experiences of others this sub is for advice about specific dating situations not general debates. posts about relationships longer than 6 months post go to r/relationship_advice or if you are married post to r/marriage
Size
r/dating is larger in our directory.
 6.3M members 4.9M members
Posting activity (our sample) 184.6/day 543.7/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 100% text posts 100%
Topic tags on SubMouse Dating Advice, Dating
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Be polite and respect each other. Give good, ethical advice.; This is not the place to try and get a date; Stay on topic. No r4r ads, spam, advertisements or promotional content.; No Personal Information; No harmful or hateful rhetoric No hate-speech, personal attacks, or harassment; Spam / Advertising/ Solicitation of Dms; Pickup Artist / Red pill language /MGTOW; Off-topic / Low-effort; Self-pity

What they share

  • Shared SubMouse topics: Dating
  • Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

r/dating short titles we collected include: be polite; this is not the place to try and get a date; stay on topic with no r4r ads/spam/advertising; NSFW marking; no personal information; no harmful rhetoric; no reposting. Our sample mix: text posts; common flairs include advice, questions and venting.

r/dating_advice: no hate-speech or personal attacks; limits on sex-related topics; no spam/advertising/DM solicitation; no pickup-artist/red-pill/MGTOW language; off-topic/low-effort; self-pity; repetitive topics; generalizations and gender war; body-count framing. Our sample mix: text posts at a much higher posts-per-day rate than dating in the same kind of window.

Where this comparison comes from

Public titles, descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory (see the date on this page). Short rule titles and posting-activity samples SubMouse collected for both names. Mutual related-list links between dating and dating_advice. Rule lines are short titles only — not full sidebar text or post bodies.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: