A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/netsec: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
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This community is a curated aggregator of technical information security content. The people who post here are security practitioners, students, researchers, and hackers. The mission, as the description says, is to extract signal from the noise and provide value to people who care about security. The content is meant to be technical and high quality.
The rule that decides whether your post survives is "Always link to the original source.", which requires every submitted link to be the original source of the information. The "Commercial advertisement is discouraged." rule is the one that decides whether a marketing-adjacent post lives or dies, because it bars commercial content unless you have a preexisting relationship with the community and a personal stake in its success. The "No tool posts" rule sends tool and exploit code links to the monthly discussion thread. The "No AI-generated posts" rule bans LLM-generated posts outright. The "Check the new queue for duplicates." rule removes links to subject matter that has already had recent coverage. The "No low-quality or political posts" rule removes anything that is not technical and high quality.
A good post here is a link to the original source of technical security content, with a title that gives brief context and is terse yet informative. If you are a founder doing respectful Reddit marketing, you should only post commercial content after you have spent at least six months submitting quality content and comments to this community with a minimal number of removed submissions. If you have a new tool, do not link to it directly, but you can link to a quality technical post that explains what is innovative about it.
Avoid posting anything that is not technical and high quality, because the "No low-quality or political posts" rule removes it. Avoid tool links and exploit code, because the "No tool posts" rule sends those to the monthly thread. Avoid AI-generated posts, because the "No AI-generated posts" rule bans them. Avoid commercial content if you are new, because the "Commercial advertisement is discouraged." rule blocks it unless you have six or more months of quality history here. Avoid duplicate topics, because the "Check the new queue for duplicates." rule removes them. Avoid hostility, because the "Don't create unnecessary conflict" rule brings out the banhammer.
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Yes, but only if you have been submitting quality content or comments here for at least six months and have had a minimal number of removed submissions, according to the "Commercial advertisement is discouraged." rule.
No, the "No tool posts" rule says to post tool links and exploit code in the monthly discussion thread instead.
No, the "No AI-generated posts" rule states that LLM-generated posts are not welcome.
You should check the new queue first, because the "Check the new queue for duplicates." rule removes links to subject matter that has already had recent coverage.
No, the "No low-quality or political posts" rule removes submissions that are political instead of technical.
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