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r/Hamilton PUBLIC
The City of Hamilton, Ontario. (This sub is in no way affiliated with the City of Hamilton Municipal Government)
Marketing Summary
r/Hamilton is a PUBLIC community on Reddit with over 139,886 members. It currently has a positive sentiment with an engagement rate of 5.9%. With a community friendliness score of 80, this subreddit presents a high conversion potential for authentic brand participation. Strict rules against self-promotion are in place, so marketing should focus strictly on value-driven community engagement.
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Subreddit Rules
- Be Respectful (No Personal Attacks/Witch-Hunts): We’re here for discussion and debate, but we are not here for blatantly rude comments that some may consider offensive or harmful. Name-calling, homophobic, racist, sexist, and misogynistic posts will be automatically removed. Multiple warnings may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.
- Keep it Hamilton Focused: This is a sub for the City of Hamilton, Ontario. Post about things happening in our community, newsworthy, events, and other helpful contributions. Posts about neighbouring cities don’t tend to do well here, and we would consider posting in their appropriate sub. We also suggest using our “search” feature for commonly asked questions, like *“I’m moving to Hamilton from…”* or *“where to find…”* Often times, with a sub as old as ours, the questions have previously been answered.
- Slurs and/or Hate Speech: Hate speech is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as *”public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation”.* - Such content will not be allowed on our sub, and is also part of [reddit’s Global Content Policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy).
- Hate is defined as: *feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone)(verb) Or intense or passionate dislike (noun).*
- Privacy - Security Cam Footage, Pics/Vids Containing Faces, Dash-Cams, Stolen Items, Missing Persons: To help ensure privacy, prevent doxxing, personal attacks, and misinformation, and to also be respectful of a persons right to innocence until proven guilty, we cannot allow posts of these types to be shared. This is unless it comes from a police/government or news agency. If a photo or video contains a person/persons, and they did not consent to having their picture or video taken/posted, it is expected that the face(s) be altered in such a way that the individuals not be easily identifiable.
- Editorialized Headlines: When posting an article from an outside source, we ask that you leave the title of the original post as is, unless it is automatically populated incorrectly - at which point, we would ask that you take the heading/headline of that page and post it exactly as it appears. The reason for this is to ensure that the context in which the item was created is presented as it was meant to be displayed. Additional commentary or notes can always be added in the comment replies.
- Spam/Low Effort Posts/Obvious Self-Promotions: Low effort posts/comments include:
- - Screenshots from other Social Media outlets (X screenshots allowed if news/council related) - Pictures of parked cars/parking lot/driveway photos - YouTube Videos of bands/comedy/performances etc.
- Same with obvious self-promotional plugs/videos. While things like community car-washes, lemonade stands, and general event promotions are fine, these *must* be posted in our weekly Marketing Monday sticky.
- Reddiquette / Reddit Content Policy: Additionally, we suggest using [Reddiquette](https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/reddit-101/reddit-basics/reddiquette) and adhering to [Reddit’s Global Content Policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy).
- Moderator Discretion: Moderators retain discretion to remove a post at any time if they feel it is violating Reddit rules, or are intended to only incite abuse, are trolling, or are deemed offensive in some way. This includes, but is not limited to, reposts, hate messages, self-posts that cover already heavily discussed topics. The same rule also applies for suspicious karma farming posts and accounts.
- Contacting the Mods: When contacting the mods, we ask that you [contact us via modmail](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/Hamilton) and not to our individual DM's or Chats. This ensures that all of the mod team can see your messages, and allows us to keep our personal accounts to ourselves. **Any messages related to the business of our sub sent to our personal accounts will not be responded to.**
What is r/Hamilton?
r/Hamilton is a public Reddit community created in December 2009 with over 139,886 members. The City of Hamilton, Ontario. (This sub is in no way affiliated with the City of Hamilton Municipal Government)
The community has a positive sentiment and an engagement rate of 5.9%. With a friendliness score of 80, it is considered very welcoming to new members.
Self-promotion is not allowed, so marketing efforts should focus on providing genuine value to the community.
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