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r/SolarUK PUBLIC
UK Community for Solar, Battery and EV Chargers. Be respectful, constructive and polite
Marketing Summary
r/SolarUK is a PUBLIC community on Reddit with over 23,790 members. It currently has a positive sentiment with an engagement rate of 4.3%. 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
- UK Only: Content must be relevant to the United Kingdom only or interesting for the benefit of our members.
- Post Relevance: Posts must be relevant to: - Solar - Batteries - EV chargers - Anything related to the above, eg heat pumps, home automation, wind turbines etc - go to r/LegalAdviceUK for questions about contracts, disputes etc - go to r/HousingUK for help with planning permission questions - go to r/UKPersonalFinance for tax and financial questions (for example comparing Battery arbitrage to other high risk investments)
- SolarUK Etiquette: - Be respectful, remain friendly and polite
- - Be constructive and helpful - No political or environmental arguments
- - No arguments, rude or abusive posts - Post must meet our ‘Quality Content’ standard - Use the follow and vote buttons - Do not post just to correct someone, ie kW vs kWh
- - Do not post Not Safe for Work (NSFW) content
- AI Content: - If your content is using Artificial Intelligence (AI), make this clear at the top of your post.
- - If the AI content is considered poor quality, misleading or overly long and complicated to read, it will be removed.
- Commercial Suppliers & Installers: Professional installers and commercial suppliers are welcome by following: - Reddit account must be in the name of your company - Contact the Moderators to inform us who you are with links and information about your company. Once approved, we will add a flair (tag) to your account profile so that members are aware who you are. - No hard sell
- - No private messaging unless you are contacted first
- - One post to introduce your company only.
- - No excessive posting / replies
- Recommendations: Recommendations based on experience or opinion are accepted so long as: - They are not overly pushed or excessive - Factually correct. Even if you’re being genuine with your intentions, factually incorrect posts will be removed. - No Ohme - They removed the price cap for Octopus Intelligent Go. - No Tado or GivEnergy - They are charging for previously free services
- - No recommendation to oversize batteries unless specifically evidence based
- - No cold recommendations to other users
- DIY Content: We allow posts about plug-in (balcony) Solar that is plug 'n' play into a standard UK socket.
- We do not allow: - DIY installations or discussion. r/SolarDIY is the place to go for advice. - Anything where your own wiring is needed - Illegal or anything not according to UK regulations
- No Legal, Planning, Tax or Financial Advice: We do not allow any legal or planning questions or advice
- - r/LegalAdviceUK for questions about contracts, disputes etc
- - r/HousingUK for help with planning permission questions. - If your installer loses MCS certification after you signed the contract, then this constitutes a major breach of contract. - For domestic installations - Most relevant legislation is the Consumer Rights Act 2015. - Financial disputes - If credit card or finance agreement; Section 75 claims can be submitted.
- Quality Content Only: We pride SolarUK on quality, accurate and verified information wherever possible. Members wish to learn and understand based on the content you submit.
- Moderators will robustly remove content to protect members.
- Before posting, think!
- - Fact check your content before posting
- - Distinguish your comment between opinion and fact
- - Provide evidence wherever possible
- - Be constructive, helpful and polite
- Opinion only based content that we consider could be misleading will be removed.
- Links, Referrals & Applications: We do not allow referral link posts. You can add custom links to your reddit profile. If you are looking for a referral link, please tap on one of the member’s profiles. - No paywalled links - No referral links of any kind - No Calculators or Estimator Applications without prior approval - No homemade / AI website links without prior approval - No cold DM's pushing referral links
- If you have a link you would like to advertise, please contact the moderators.
- Member Conduct: Any moderation action taken will be messaged to you, we moderate a large volume of comments weekly. Please respect our decision, we do not have time to debate this. Our decision is not personal against you.
- - Anyone being rude or abusive in response to our moderation decision will be temporarily banned - Anyone persistently breaking rules, being rude or abusive will be permanently banned
- - Any member sending unsolicited, inappropriate, rude or abusive DM's will be permanently banned.
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What is r/SolarUK?
r/SolarUK is a public Reddit community created in May 2018 with over 23,790 members. UK Community for Solar, Battery and EV Chargers. Be respectful, constructive and polite
The community has a positive sentiment and an engagement rate of 4.3%. 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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