Community Standards / Purpose of Subreddit

Purpose of r/learntohack:

Stereotypes of hackers pervade the media, enticing young people who would be a perfect fit for the culture, but who try to become a part of it with the intentions of cracking.

Unfortunately, no community exists that effectively guides those young people to true hackerdom. After some discussion on this topic, I decided to make this subreddit.

Structure of r/learntohack:

Newcomers to r/learntohack are given a simple task: in HTML write a home page describing themselves (we have a lose definition of self here). While developing your homepage and slowly making it better and better, share advice, like how to use <div> effectively, or share JavaScript code. A more thorough post on the homepage task and why it was implemented will be posted later.

After a person has created a page that successfully impressed one of the moderators or a large amount of the community (usually the latter), a moderator will comment on your latest post with an "accolade". To show your standing in the community, you are expected to begin any post after receiving accolades with a set of numbers, each one linking to the accolades you have received.

For example, if u/NiBuch posted, "Great homepage, u/glit_lu. I've decided to give you an accolade [1]," I will prefix my next post with [1]. If the post is a text post I will begin the post with the text "[1]" linked to NiBuch's comment. If the post is a link, I will be expected to be able to provide the link to any moderator who asks for it, or anytime a large amount of people in the community express doubt.

After [1], most users will generally move on to learning about basic programming syntax through Python. A more detailed post on [2] will be posted later, along with explanations of [3]+.

Keep in mind that [1][2][3]... are not levels, but indicators of how much you have contributed to the community of r/learntohack. In the future we may incorporate flair to throw out some of the first world manual labor of linking and typing extra characters.

Moderators of r/learntohack New moderators will be chosen by the unanimous decision of all moderators at the time. At the time, only u/NiBuch and I are moderators, and at any given time r/learntohack will probably have only about five moderators.

Guidelines of r/learntohack Mostly, there are no rules. Community standards like accolades are expected to be respected. Posting offtopic things or things that do not contribute to the community so much as promote political movements or teach malicious cracking techniques will result in total annihilation. Our dinosaur will consume you.

That's all I can think of, but post your thoughts in the comments. This'll probably be revised, so read over it every now and then.