A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/soc2: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
Checked October 22, 2026 from the community's public Reddit pages:
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
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This community exists for people on both sides of SOC 2 audits. The description says it was created because there is a lack of quality information around the topic, and it wants a space where auditors and auditees involved in SOC audits can trade ideas and ask questions. In practice that means compliance folks at companies going through an audit, auditors who run those audits, and security practitioners talking about audit related work. The rules widen the door a little, so war stories from the SAS70, WebTrusts and SysTrusts era and other security or audit topics are welcome too.
Four rules decide everything here. “Posts and comments should be relevant to SOC 2” sets the topic bar, and it is generous about what counts, including war stories from the old SAS70, WebTrusts and SysTrusts days and other security or audit topics. “No advertising” is the one that ends most marketing attempts, and it explicitly covers comments that ask for a direct message instead of answering in the post itself. “No Low Effort Posts or AI slop” means if you praise a platform or service you must explain how it does the thing or how you used it to do the thing, and it also bans replies that show you did not read the message you responded to. “No market research, builders or tool feedback” is the strictest of the set, because it bans posts seeking feedback on tools you are building, posts about pain points, and anything that makes it obvious you are not an active practitioner.
The bar is simple, be an active practitioner sharing something real. A good post is a specific question about your own audit situation, an honest account of how you handled a control or an evidence request, or a war story with lessons in it. If a tool or service comes up, do not just say it does the thing, explain how it does the thing or how you used it to get through your audit, step by step, with what worked and what did not. Answer other people fully in the thread itself, never with an offer to continue in direct messages.
Do not advertise or solicit business, and do not ask anyone to direct message you so you can answer there instead of in the thread. Do not post low effort praise of a product, AI slop, or a reply that makes it obvious you never read the message. Do not run market research, ask for feedback on something you are building, or fish for pain points, because the community is for active practitioners and these posts get removed. Stay on topic, meaning SOC 2 audits, getting compliant, interpreting guidance, or security and audit matters generally.
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The rules ban advertising outright, so a post that exists to sell gets removed. What survives is a genuine on topic contribution where any mention of a tool comes with a real explanation of how you used it and what actually happened.
The rules do not state a position on links, so treat links carefully and lead with substance. A link that only serves to send people to your business looks like advertising and the advertising rule covers posts and comments that solicit business.
The policy brief says AI content is discouraged, and the rules call out AI slop by name. If you use any assistance, the final comment must show you read the original message and answer it with your own specific experience.
No. The rules say the community is for active practitioners and that market research and tool feedback posts are no longer allowed, including anything about pain points or what you are building. The suggested path is to pay practitioners for their time instead.
The description says the community exists for auditors and auditees involved in SOC audits to trade ideas and ask questions, so a useful post is a specific question or a detailed account from real audit experience that other practitioners can learn from or answer.