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Can you promote on r/homelab?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
AI content must be labeled Its rules allow AI-assisted content only when it is labeled as such. Other communities' AI rules.
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- its rules on Reddit
Welcome to your friendly /r/homelab, where techies and sysadmin from everywhere are welcome to share their labs, projects, builds, etc.
What its rules say about promotion
No piracy
Keep piracy discussion off of this subreddit, everything here should be done legally and through the right means. Mentions of and recommendations of piracy to other users will be removed and you will be banned if trying to endorse/sell keys, this includes 'key swaps' and giveaways of keys.
No Commercial Advertising or Monetized Referral Links
Monetized referral links, affiliate links, product advertising, and company advertising are not allowed. Contact the moderators via Mod Mail before posting if you believe an exception applies. Non-commercial personal projects are permitted, but must follow all other sub rules.
What its rules say about AI and bots
Software Project Posting Requirements
All software projects must be relevant to r/homelab, use a "Project: Software" flair, disclose AI usage with post flair and in the text of the post, include responses to the prompt displayed when posting with one of the software project flairs, and the user must meet the minimum subreddit karma requirement. Posts that do not meet these requirements, try to bypass the "Project: Software" flairs, provide incomplete or misleading disclosures, or otherwise violate community standards may be removed.
All 11 rules of r/homelab
- Don't be an asshole.
This is a great community with many awesome people, don't ruin that. Any negativity or unnecessary comments will be dealt with and possible bans will be handed out. - Post Details.
We love detailed homelab builds, please put as much detail about your lab as possible and what you are using it for. Posts with just a few pictures and no context behind them will be removed. Detail can be posted as a reply to your own post. - Not Homelab Related
Discussion about your homelab, homelabing, questions you may have, discussion about applying your skill from the homelab to the workplace are all acceptable reasons to post. Unrelated posts will be removed. - Shitpost/Low Effort
Please no shitposting or low effort posts. This includes a picture of some hardware you just bought, speed test screenshots, lab porn which is just a home network, "what should I do with it" posts, "here's what I want to run which hardware" or help posts where you have not posted details of the research you have done up until this point (This reddit isn't your personal Google). - No piracy
Keep piracy discussion off of this subreddit, everything here should be done legally and through the right means. Mentions of and recommendations of piracy to other users will be removed and you will be banned if trying to endorse/sell keys, this includes 'key swaps' and giveaways of keys. - No Commercial Advertising or Monetized Referral Links
Monetized referral links, affiliate links, product advertising, and company advertising are not allowed. Contact the moderators via Mod Mail before posting if you believe an exception applies. Non-commercial personal projects are permitted, but must follow all other sub rules. - Software Project Posting Requirements
All software projects must be relevant to r/homelab, use a "Project: Software" flair, disclose AI usage with post flair and in the text of the post, include responses to the prompt displayed when posting with one of the software project flairs, and the user must meet the minimum subreddit karma requirement. Posts that do not meet these requirements, try to bypass the "Project: Software" flairs, provide incomplete or misleading disclosures, or otherwise violate community standards may be removed. - Sales & Offers
Please post sales, wants, offers, deals and price checks to /r/homelabsales. As deals are commonly regionally specific, they would be of greater benefit to people on the homelabsales forum where they can get sorted and searched for. This includes: * Sales * Wants * Offers * Deals * Price Checks - No Pandering
Posts of "Humble" labs or age related posts are seen as an attempt to gain extra karma, please keep post titles relevant. - Giveaways
All giveaways of any kind must be vetted by the mods before posting. Often, giveaways are better suited for /r/homelabsales. If you want a giveaway posted in /r/homelab, please message the mods. - AMA's
All AMA's of any kind must be vetted by the mods before posting. If you want an AMA posted in /r/homelab, please message the mods first. AMA's posted are automatically removed, until a mod approves it. The mods must be included and approve of it, before we approve the post for the public.
What the written rules don't show
- Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
- Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
- The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.
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