tbh, its worse than that. This one time, I used to post to reddit, without adding a link, and some guy from competition used to reply to comments of people who used to ask for the tool name and link. haha basically i sow the crop and he reaped it.
Reddit is banning accounts so frequently. I would suggest avoid posting anything for the first week of account creation, and even when you post, do not add a link. unfortunately the only way for startups to promote themselves now is to do shadow marketing.