As the sub continues to grow, it felt like a good time to put our community rules down in writing. This gives everyone an opportunity to see what’s expected of contributors, and hopefully stave off any misunderstandings in the process. For the most part, they’re pretty straightforward:

1. No personal attacks. This seems obvious, but calling a user names is going to get your post removed. Remember that we have a lot of newbies coming here for help with improving their home security; let’s welcome them and share some knowledge.
2. Contribute to the discussion. Make sure your post is meaningful. It must somehow answer OP’s question, be relevant to the discussion at hand, or at least be about home security in general. Low-effort posts like “Ring sucks”, “Wyze rules”, or “12 gauge” are a violation of this rule. We’re not going to zap every post that veers a little off topic but if you find yourself debating Android vs iOS, it’s probably time to take the thread to another sub. Because everyone knows Blackberry OS is the best.
3. No personal identification. We don’t have the luxury of knowing all sides of the story, so refrain from posting information that can be used to track someone down. This includes posting things like “I don’t want to name any names but the CEO of SomeFakeCompanyName LLC tried to break into my home”.
4. Disclose your business relationships. If you mention a company and you have any relationship other than being a customer, you must disclose that in your post. This includes but is not limited to being an owner, employee, contractor, supplier, or affiliate of the company, or being in any way related to such.
5. Don’t spam. This includes but is not limited to posting affiliate links, self-promotion, attempting to solicit customers, offering to give quotes, and soliciting private messages. We don’t give “third final warnings” here.
6. Support your claims. If you accuse Company X of secretly monitoring your cameras, or you think Company Y is sending all your data to a foreign country’s intelligence service, that’s fine — but you must include links to reputable sources that support your claim. Reddit comments and other social media posts are generally not “reputable sources”.

This sub tends to be pretty well self-regulated, so these shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. But if you have any questions, feel free to send us a DM! And as much as we’d like to be everywhere at once, we can’t. So if you see a post or comment that violates one of these rules, please report it so we can check it out.

UPDATE DECEMBER 2022: Due to an unending barrage of crypto spam that the Reddit admins have been unwilling to address, we have implemented a karma floor for posting here. To post or comment, you must have at least 50 karma.