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r/dating_advice vs r/dating

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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_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).

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.

Supported differences

Aspectr/dating_advicer/dating
Public focus (from each community’s public description) 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 A subreddit to discuss and explore the dating process and learn from the experiences of others
Size
r/dating is larger in our directory.
 4.9M members 6.3M members
Posting activity (our sample) 543.7/day 184.6/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 100% text posts 100%
Topic tags on SubMouse Advice, Dating Dating
Selected 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 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

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: