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r/pittsburgh PUBLIC
Marketing Summary
r/pittsburgh is a PUBLIC community on Reddit with over 307,452 members. It currently has a positive sentiment with an engagement rate of 0.4%. With a community friendliness score of 80, this subreddit presents a moderate 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
- Location: * Posts should be relevant to Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and/or Southwestern Pennsylvania.
- This is not NextDoor. Avoid hyper-local news or issues – submissions should generally be of interest to people across the City, County and/or region.
- Posts concerning topics relevant across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, such as state politics and government, are generally allowed. We also encourage you to visit /r/Pennsylvania.
- Civility: * All users should follow [basic reddiquette](https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439).
- Personal attacks and insulting and mean-spirited comments directed other users are prohibited.
- Sharing personal information about another user without their consent ("doxxing") is prohibited by Reddit's site-wide rules.
- Don't make bad-faith posts or comments designed to provoke or anger people ("trolling").
- Threats, harassment and bullying of any kind are strictly prohibited.
- Hate Speech, Bigotry, and Demeaning Language: * Promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability is strictly prohibited by Reddit sitewide rules. Hateful, discriminatory or demeaning language will not be tolerated.
- The use of coded language to promote hate based on identity or vulnerability ("dog whistles") is also prohibited.
- Promoting or defending the work of a hate group will not be tolerated. The [Southern Poverty Law Center](https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map) maintains a useful list and map of active U.S. hate groups.
- Misinformation: * Do not post misleading or false information on any topic. Ignorance is not an excuse.
- While the moderators are not fact-checkers, we reserve the right to challenge any user making controversial or dubious claims for legitimate proof and remove questionable content without quality citations.
- Audience: * Submissions should be relevant to many people, and personal requests are strongly discouraged.
- Craigslist-like classifieds posts are only allowed in the weekly thread stickied at the top of the subreddit.
- Emergency exceptions, including posts about lost pets, can be made subject to the discretion of the moderators.
- Posts about missing persons require proof from a legitimate news or law enforcement source. And contact information should be law enforcements contact only.
- Advertising and Self-Promotion:
- advertising and self-promotion. Exceptions can be made for occasional submissions from local artists, makers, small businesses, and non-profits sharing or discussing their original work.
- Affiliate links are not allowed. Companies looking to advertise to /r/Pittsburgh can purchase targeted advertising through Reddit.
- Ask Me Anything posts by political candidates and prominent local figures are allowed. We encourage reaching out to the moderators in advance of posting them.
- Repeat: * Submissions should not be identical or extremely similar to content posted in the last 6 months. We encourage you to search the subreddit and Wiki for a topic before posting about it.
- Titles: * Submission titles should give users a clear idea of what the post or link is about.
- Using all caps, emojis, and multiple punctuation marks in titles is not allowed.
- Links to news articles should generally have the original headline of the article. Don't editorialize submission titles
- put your opinion in the comments. Adding to or changing original titles for clarification is allowed within reason and subject to discretion of the mods. Shock titles are not allowed.
- Acceptable Content:
- explicit or inappropriate images, videos or text. Limited exceptions are allowed only when part of legitimate news coverage.
- Illegal content or posts soliciting or facilitating illegal transactions is against [Reddit sitewide rules](https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043513471).
- Submissions including mobile website links or link shorteners are not allowed and will be removed.
- We encourage everyone sharing pictures to post them to /r/PittsburghPorn.
- Sports: * Professional sports-related submissions are generally not allowed in /r/Pittsburgh, with limited exceptions for noteworthy news or events. Please visit /r/penguins, /r/steelers, /r/buccos, or /r/riverhounds.
- No Requesting or Complaining about Votes or Karma: * Do not request upvotes or downvotes in post titles or comments.
- Don't complain about being downvoted or the karma on your post or comment.
- No Twitter links allowed.:
- Twitter links allowed.
What is r/pittsburgh?
r/pittsburgh is a public Reddit community created in April 2008 with over 307,452 members.
The community has a positive sentiment and an engagement rate of 0.4%. 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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