r/Securitysystems
Security Systems: Alarms, Cameras, Hardware...Advice and troubleshooting.
Founded July 2011 · Public — anyone can post
This sub is about security systems, home security, business security, security cameras, access control, etc. Anything else is not acceptable.
Members
1,369
1.4K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
0.2
from the last 100 posts, spanning 588.1 days
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.3%
+17 members · ≈34d
Published rules
2
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Oct 12
sampled Oct 13
Distinct posters
89%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 9 · 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/Securitysystems
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; scores were unavailable for this sample.
| Format | Share of posts |
|---|---|
| Question | 56% |
| How-to | 19% |
| Discussion | 12% |
| Rant | 5% |
| Tool comparison | 5% |
| Lessons / story | 2% |
| Promo | 2% |
Based on 50 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Text posts
- 80%
- Busiest windows
- Sun 18:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned.
- Spam - Obvious spam, nonsense, self-promototion...: No posts or comments that are obvious spam, nonsense, click on articles for money, self-promotion of items/services, etc.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Directly answers the question with a specific recommendation.
- — Provides alternative solutions or warnings against certain brands.
- — Offers brief, actionable advice.
- — Mentions specific product names or system types.
What r/Securitysystems's rules say about promotion
1 of 2 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Spam - Obvious spam, nonsense, self-promototion...
rule 1 of 2
No posts or comments that are obvious spam, nonsense, click on articles for money, self-promotion of items/services, etc.
The other 1
- Innappropriate - Rude, unacceptable behavior, etc.
Read from r/Securitysystems’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/Securitysystems — frequently asked
How many members does r/Securitysystems have?
r/Securitysystems has 1,369 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 13. 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/Securitysystems growing?
Over the last ≈34 days r/Securitysystems changed by +1.3% — a gain of 17 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/Securitysystems?
Around 0.2 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 588.1 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/Securitysystems created?
r/Securitysystems was founded in July 2011 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.
Who posts in r/Securitysystems?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 89% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 12. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/Securitysystems?
r/Securitysystems publishes 2 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Spam - Obvious spam, nonsense, self-promototion...”, says: No posts or comments that are obvious spam, nonsense, click on articles for money, self-promotion of items/services, etc. 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/Securitysystems for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Securitysystems into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/Securitysystems's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Securitysystems'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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