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Can you promote on r/cybersecurity_help?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
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This subreddit is r/techsupport but focused on solving individuals' cybersecurity concerns, removing malware, and more. Please be sure to follow the posting guide for accurate and helpful answers.
What its rules say about promotion
Questions & answers only
No spam, news, trolling, marketing, memes, joke responses, solicitation, personal attacks, blogs, etc. This is an easy rule to follow. Simply use this subreddit to: * Ask personal/cybersecurity questions, or * Give a clear, helpful, and unbiased answer This is what it's for. Anything else is out of scope.
No affiliates, referrals, or astroturfing
People come to this subreddit to get accurate and unbiased answers to their cybersecurity questions. Generally, responses should refrain from giving answers which involve *any* vendor. The **vast majority** of security problems faced by home users do not require vendor-driven solutions. Marketing - especially unethical marketing tactics such as astroturfing - is not permitted. Any violation of this will result in a permanent ban.
What its rules say about AI and bots
Only trusted bots are allowed (LLMs are never trusted)
Trusted bots are vetted by moderators and assigned the "Trusted Bot" flair. These are the only bots permitted. Unapproved bots, or humans parroting bot responses (ex. pasting results from ChatGPT) are not permitted. https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity_help/comments/1d1iqbz/scaling_security_support_via_bots_on/
All 10 rules of r/cybersecurity_help
- Practice good security when assisting or observing
On r/techsupport, malicious links and possible malware are banned. On r/cybersecurity_help, we specifically ask people to upload samples of malware, post suspicious links, and more. **If you do not know how to stay safe when handling samples or unsafe links: don't click on them, don't download them, don't run them, don't interact with them at all.** You are responsible for your own cybersecurity at all times. - Follow the posting guide
To ensure that our community can answer your questions as efficiently and correctly as possible, we have a thorough guide for posting on this subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity_help/wiki/guide All posts must follow its rules and expectations. - Questions & answers only
No spam, news, trolling, marketing, memes, joke responses, solicitation, personal attacks, blogs, etc. This is an easy rule to follow. Simply use this subreddit to: * Ask personal/cybersecurity questions, or * Give a clear, helpful, and unbiased answer This is what it's for. Anything else is out of scope. - No incomplete posts
Submissions consisting of the following are considered incomplete and will be removed: 1. Posts with empty body, only a link in the body, title copied into the body, and/or lack of information in the body. 2. Posts with non-descriptive titles. Please make your title and contents descriptive. To combat this, there are requirements for posting: * Posts must have a minimum of four words in the title. - No account recovery
If you are locked out of **any** account (such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, Microsoft, Apple, etc.), there is **nothing** we can do. Whether you misplaced your 2FA key, lost your phone, forgot your password, whatever - there's nothing we can do. You **have to** contact the support staff for the account you lost access to. There will be no exceptions to this rule. Do not message the mods asking for an exception to this rule. Report anyone offering "help" with these - they are scammers. - No moving to DMs or other services
Any and all communication is to be kept public and on r/cybersecurity_help. We take this very seriously, as support subreddits have had problems with scammers attempting to prey on less-knowledgable users by offering 'private services' over DMs or otherwise. Please report anyone that attempts to coax users to DMs, or reaches out over DMs for a post on r/cybersecurity_help, as both are expressly prohibited and will result in a permanent ban from r/cybersecurity_help. - No affiliates, referrals, or astroturfing
People come to this subreddit to get accurate and unbiased answers to their cybersecurity questions. Generally, responses should refrain from giving answers which involve *any* vendor. The **vast majority** of security problems faced by home users do not require vendor-driven solutions. Marketing - especially unethical marketing tactics such as astroturfing - is not permitted. Any violation of this will result in a permanent ban. - No finding, tracking, or doxxing people
This subreddit cannot assist in attempting to find, track, identify, or doxx people, no matter the reason. You must work with law enforcement or a private investigator. There are no exceptions to this rule. This is both a subreddit policy and a [Reddit policy](https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043066452-Is-posting-someone-s-private-or-personal-information-okay-). Violations of this rule (asking for *or* giving this type of information) will result in a permanent ban. - We are not your personal army
Professionals and other contributors on this subreddit will help answer your questions if they decide to. It is inappropriate to ask or demand favors beyond that. This is *especially* true for asking members to commit crimes, such as: * Hacking into accounts. * DoS/DDoS attacks. * Harassing people. * etc. People may also elect to give an answer which isn't the answer you were looking for. Ex: asking if a torrented game is malware, you may be told "if you don't trust it, don't run it." - Only trusted bots are allowed (LLMs are never trusted)
Trusted bots are vetted by moderators and assigned the "Trusted Bot" flair. These are the only bots permitted. Unapproved bots, or humans parroting bot responses (ex. pasting results from ChatGPT) are not permitted. https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity_help/comments/1d1iqbz/scaling_security_support_via_bots_on/
What the written rules don't show
- Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
- Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
- The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.
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