> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.socdefenders.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# SOC Defenders community: karma, voting, and contributions

> Learn how to participate in the SOC Defenders security community — submit articles, upvote content, comment on threats, and build karma.

SOC Defenders is built around an active community of security professionals who surface, discuss, and validate threat intelligence together. By voting on articles, commenting on threats, and submitting new content, you help the community distinguish signal from noise — and build a reputation that reflects your contributions.

## Submitting articles

To share an article with the community, use the **Submit** page. Paste the URL of the article you want to share, select a category, and submit. Your submission enters the feed where other members can vote on it, comment, and save it.

The submissions page lists all community-submitted articles and supports the same category, severity, and IOC filters as the main news feed, so you can browse submissions by topic.

## Voting

Each article displays a vote count. Use the **upvote** button to signal that an article is relevant, accurate, or valuable to the community. Voting affects how articles rank in the **Hot** and **Top** feed views, surfacing the most useful content to more members.

You can also upvote and downvote **comments** within article discussion threads (subject to karma requirements — see below).

## Commenting

Open any article and scroll to the **Discussion** section to leave a comment. Comments let you add context, share related IOCs, flag inaccuracies, or discuss detection strategies with other practitioners. You must be signed in to comment.

## Saving articles

Click **Save** on any article to add it to your **Saved Articles** list. Your saved articles are available at any time from the **Saved** section of the platform, making it easy to build a personal reading list or reference collection of relevant threats.

## Karma

Karma is a measure of the quality of your contributions to the community. It is calculated solely from the votes other members cast on your comments — not on articles you submit.

| Action                                | Effect   |
| ------------------------------------- | -------- |
| Another member upvotes your comment   | +1 karma |
| Another member downvotes your comment | -1 karma |

Your karma level unlocks additional community capabilities:

| Karma threshold | Capability unlocked                                |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| 0+              | Upvote comments                                    |
| 20+             | Flag content for review; vouch for content quality |
| 50+             | Downvote comments                                  |

<Tip>
  The fastest way to build karma is to leave specific, substantive comments — analysis of a technique, a detection note, or context that other analysts find useful. Generic comments attract fewer upvotes than comments that add something the article itself doesn't say.
</Tip>

## Leaderboard

The **Karma Leaderboard** ranks community members by total karma points, recognizing top contributors. The leaderboard is a useful way to find experienced analysts worth following and to gauge the depth of engagement within the community.

## Daily email newsletter

Subscribe to **Get Daily Threat Intel** to receive a curated digest of the day's most significant cybersecurity news delivered to your inbox every morning. Enter your email address in the newsletter signup at the bottom of the feed. You can unsubscribe at any time.

## Community guidelines

All participation on SOC Defenders is subject to the platform's acceptable use policy. Submissions, comments, and votes should contribute to accurate, useful threat intelligence — not spam, self-promotion, or misinformation.