r/Guitar vs r/piano
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Guitar community vs piano community
r/Guitar’s public description is a forum for exchanging guitar-related information from novice to experienced players. r/piano’s directory text is simply all things piano related.
In our directory, Guitar is larger (about 3.5M, rank #298) than piano (about 1.3M, rank #823). Activity samples show Guitar posting more often (~145 posts/day vs ~59). Both samples mix text with video and images; Guitar also shows galleries. Guitar’s sample flairs include question, gear, play, discussion, newbie and purchase; piano’s sample uses performance-critique, beginner/intermediate help, discuss-this and digital-piano question flairs.
Rule titles: Guitar enforces positive-karma/no-new-accounts, bans spam and discourtesy and removes empty posts; piano steers common questions into a weekly thread and bans low-effort images, basic tutorials and generic playlist dumps.
- Choose r/Guitar for gear, lessons and play discussion under its karma and anti-spam rules.
- Choose r/piano for practice, digital-piano help and critique-friendly performances under its weekly-thread rules.
- Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.
r/Guitar
Guitar - gear, reviews, lessons, and discussion for everyone!
Welcome to r/guitar, a community devoted to the exchange of guitar related information. This is a forum where guitarists, from novice to experienced, can explore the world of guitar through a variety of media and discus…
- Members
- 3.5M
- 7-day growth
- +2.2K
- Posts/day
- 144.6
- Directory rank
- #298
- Created
- May 28, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 46%, videos 23%, images 18%
Topics: Guitar
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- HOW TO SUBMIT A POST IN R/GUITAR
- POSITIVE KARMA ONLY - NO NEW ACCOUNTS
- POSTS WITH NO TITLE OR CONTENT WILL BE REMOVED
- SPAM, SELF-PROMOTION, ADVERTISING BY PROXY, SOLICITING SOCIAL MEDIA VIEWS, ETC. ARE NOT ALLOWED.
- DISCOURTESY - ANY DISCOURTESY TOWARD OTHERS WILL RESULT WITH A PERMANENT BAN
- MEMES/JOKE/TROLL POSTS, AND ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ARE NOT ALLOWED:
- GEAR APPRAISALS, SELLING, OR DONATION SEEKING ARE NOT ALLOWED IN R/GUITAR
- GCJ Related
- JOIN OUR WHITELIST
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r/piano
Piano
All things piano related!
- Members
- 1.3M
- 7-day growth
- +767
- Posts/day
- 59.4
- Directory rank
- #823
- Created
- Oct 28, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 49%, videos 38%, images 10%
Topics: Piano
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- Common generic questions should be asked in the 'There Are No Stupid Questions' post
- No low-effort images, memes, or contextless images
- No basic tutorials
- No generic piano music videos / playlists
- No spam, advertising, low-content blog posts, etc.
- Be nice to each other
- No critique in "No Critique" posts
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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/Guitar | r/piano |
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| Public focus (from each community’s public description) |
Welcome to r/guitar, a community devoted to the exchange of guitar related information. This is a forum where guitarists, from novice to experienced, can explore the world of guitar through a variety of media and discus… |
All things piano related! |
| Size r/Guitar is larger in our directory (about 2.7×). |
3.5M members |
1.3M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
144.6/day |
59.4/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
text posts 46%, videos 23%, images 18% |
text posts 49%, videos 38%, images 10% |
| Topic tags on SubMouse |
Guitar |
Piano |
| Selected rule titles (short names we collected) |
HOW TO SUBMIT A POST IN R/GUITAR; POSITIVE KARMA ONLY - NO NEW ACCOUNTS; POSTS WITH NO TITLE OR CONTENT WILL BE REMOVED; SPAM, SELF-PROMOTION, ADVERTISING BY PROXY, SOLICITING SOCIAL MEDIA VIEWS, ETC. ARE NOT ALLOWED.; DISCOURTESY - ANY DISCOURTESY TOWARD OTHERS WILL RESULT WITH A PERMANENT BAN |
Common generic questions should be asked in the 'There Are No Stupid Questions' post; No low-effort images, memes, or contextless images; No basic tutorials; No generic piano music videos / playlists; No spam, advertising, low-content blog posts, etc. |
Rules and posting patterns we can verify
Guitar short titles include: how to submit a post; positive karma only — no new accounts; posts with no title or content removed; spam/self-promotion/advertising by proxy not allowed; discourtesy leads to permanent ban; memes/joke/troll limits. Our sample flairs include question, gear, play, discussion, newbie and purchase.
piano: common generic questions go in the ‘there are no stupid questions’ post; no low-effort images/memes/contextless images; no basic tutorials; no generic piano music videos/playlists; no spam/advertising; be nice; no critique in ‘no critique’ posts. Our sample flairs include performance critique, beginner/advanced help, discuss-this and digital-piano question.
Where this comparison comes from
Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Short titles only.
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.