Reddit rules index · read 2026-09-26
Can you promote on r/netsec?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
- 573,187 members
- link posts only
- posting limited to approved users
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/r/netsec is a community-curated aggregator of technical information security content. Our mission is to extract signal from the noise — to provide value to security practitioners, students, researchers, and hackers everywhere.
What its rules say about promotion
Commercial advertisement is discouraged.
Our subscribers are here for interesting technical content, not to line your wallet. We don't allow the posting of commercial content unless the submitting user has both a preexisting relationship with our community, and a personal stake in its success. If you have not been submitting quality content or comments to /r/netsec for 6+ months and have had a minimal number of removed submissions, you should refrain from posting links to commercial services or products.
All 9 rules of r/netsec
- Always link to the original source.
We require that all submitted links be the original source of the information; whether it's a blog post, conference presentation, paper, video, mailing list item, etc. The only exceptions made are for content that is hosted on sites like YouTube or SlideShare, or if the original source is no longer available online. » [More details](https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/wiki/guidelines#wiki__always_link_to_the_original_source) - Titles should provide context.
Submission titles should give a brief bit of context for readers; being terse yet informative is ideal. » [More details](https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/wiki/guidelines#wiki__titles_should_provide_context) - Check the new queue for duplicates.
To avoid being flooded with news-of-the-week style stories, we remove links to subject matter that has already had recent coverage in the subreddit; should a new article be submitted which adds significant depth to the analysis, reach out to us - we're often willing to make exceptions for high quality content. » [More details](https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/wiki/guidelines#wiki__check_the_new_queue_for_duplicates) - Commercial advertisement is discouraged.
Our subscribers are here for interesting technical content, not to line your wallet. We don't allow the posting of commercial content unless the submitting user has both a preexisting relationship with our community, and a personal stake in its success. If you have not been submitting quality content or comments to /r/netsec for 6+ months and have had a minimal number of removed submissions, you should refrain from posting links to commercial services or products. - Don't create unnecessary conflict
Discussions should remain polite and civil; any hostility toward other users is likely to draw the ire of the moderators and a sharp rap from the banhammer. - No prohibited content or sources
/r/netsec requires that all posts be technical in nature and high quality. Multiple topics and sources are not permitted to be submitted due to conflicts with this requirement; our fulltext list of prohibited topics and sources, linked below, provides more details. » [More details](https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/wiki/betaguidelines#wiki_prohibited_content) - No low-quality or political posts
Submissions that are low quality or political in nature (instead of technical) are not permitted on /r/netsec and are subject to moderation. - No tool posts
We do not accept links to tool/exploit code or READMEs - please post these in the monthly discussion/tool thread instead. We do accept links to quality technical posts explaining what is innovative about a tool. - No AI-generated posts
LLM-generated posts are not welcome
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