r/homesecurity
Home security
Founded May 2010 · Public — anyone can post
We're a place to get help with and discuss all topics relating to home security. All topics from beginner questions to help with your esoteric GE panel from 1989 are welcome! Are you looking for advice on cameras or security systems? Try using the search bar! NOTE: We require a minimum of 50 karma to post.
Members
110,343
110K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
+1.1%
+1.2K members · ≈31d
Published rules
8
4 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Sep 8 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/homesecurity
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 45% | 16 |
| Lessons / story | 26% | 109 |
| Rant | 16% | 44 |
| Tool comparison | 4% | 6 |
| News / link | 3% | 79 |
| How-to | 1% | 148 |
| Show & tell | 1% | 53 |
| Discussion | 1% | 20 |
| Promo | 1% | 1 |
Based on 69 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 12
- Top 10% score
- 122
- Text posts
- 88%
- Got no replies
- 9%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 16:00 UTC, Mon 03:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned.
- Disclose your business relationships: 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.
- No spam: Everyone has their favorite brands. But if all you do is post the same brand over and over without explaining why, that's spam. Likewise, don't post affiliate links, self-promotion, attempts to solicit customers, offers to give quotes, or solicitations of private messages. In fact, doing anything that earns you money is going to be a violation of this rule.
- No Solicitation: No affiliate links, no links that earn you money/anything, no self-promotion, no promotion of your business, no promotion of your channel or subreddit. No attempting to solicit customers, no offers to give quotes, or ask others to send private messages. Remove the excessive query string parameters from URLs that track users clicking on links when sharing, (generally EVERYTHING after the question mark is unnecessary tracking).
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers practical, actionable advice
- — Shares personal experiences and solutions
- — Suggests alternative approaches or products
- — Provides specific technical details or explanations
- — Discloses professional affiliation when relevant
What r/homesecurity's rules say about promotion
4 of 8 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Disclose your business relationships
rule 4 of 8
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.
No spam
rule 5 of 8
Everyone has their favorite brands. But if all you do is post the same brand over and over without explaining why, that's spam. Likewise, don't post affiliate links, self-promotion, attempts to solicit customers, offers to give quotes, or solicitations of private messages. In fact, doing anything that earns you money is going to be a violation of this rule.
No Solicitation
rule 7 of 8
No affiliate links, no links that earn you money/anything, no self-promotion, no promotion of your business, no promotion of your channel or subreddit. No attempting to solicit customers, no offers to give quotes, or ask others to send private messages. Remove the excessive query string parameters from URLs that track users clicking on links when sharing, (generally EVERYTHING after the question mark is unnecessary tracking).
Removal reason shown to posters: No solicitations.
No Surveys
rule 8 of 8
This one should be pretty obvious as it's spam, but no surveys, no school projects, no link to research surveys, no opinion collecting, etc.
The other 4
- Reddiquette
- Don't Troll
- No Doxing
- Don't post conspiracies
Read from r/homesecurity’s published rules on Sep 9. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/homesecurity — frequently asked
How many members does r/homesecurity have?
r/homesecurity has 110,343 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 9. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/homesecurity growing?
Over the last ≈31 days r/homesecurity changed by +1.1% — a gain of 1.2K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/homesecurity?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/homesecurity yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/homesecurity created?
r/homesecurity was founded in May 2010 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/homesecurity?
r/homesecurity publishes 8 rules and 4 of them address promotion. The first, “Disclose your business relationships”, says: 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,… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/homesecurity for mentions?
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Can my AI agent read r/homesecurity's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/homesecurity's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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