What are Articles?

Articles are supposed to be text-submissions that will be stored in a database available to all of our users. Articles are meant to be educational, accurate and interesting. Please keep in mind that article submissions are not forum posts. Please do not write articles asking for help.

Submitting an Article

If you have a good article planned, written and edited then please feel free to submit an article. But please make sure there is none similar already existing. If you submit an article, and it gets denied, there must have been a reason. Please do not message us complaining how much time you spent, or that you did not save a copy. That is your fault. But please, feel free to message us asking what you can do to improve or change your article, to further benefit the community.

Updating a Current Article

If you have been reading an article, and feel it could use some updates, please message the original author and ask him/her to update it. Do not bother asking any of the moderators or submitting the updates yourself. If you submit a copy of someone else's work, it will not be accepted and you will be warned.

Voting for an Article

Many users would rather vote an article a 1, or a 10, then actually providing an accurate score and criticism. If you vote a 1, or a 10, please provide reason. Otherwise, there is no point. Votes are only meant to give the writer an idea of what level they are writing on. So please, provide reasoning for your votes, any more critical votes will not be tolerated. When voting on an article, please base your vote around style, formatting, accuracy, citations, and overall quality. Please do not base votes on your agreement with the subject.


Hackthissite Challenges- There are millions of ideas for articles out there, none of which have to do with the HTS challenges. We like to keep the HTS challenges spoiler free. Even if your article is spoiler free, it may be used with another article to form a detailed walk through. Nonetheless, we have enough.

Mathematics- Hackthissite needs mathematical articles! Some of the challenges which require encryption or encoding all derive from mathematics. How many people want to learn crypto, without understanding the concept of base 2?

Programming- Programming forms a major part of HTS, whether it is the programming challenges, the application challenges or the realistic challenges. Many things in life go much easier knowing how to program. Some cool introductory ideas are sockets, algorithms, recursion and efficiency. If you write a programming article, please make sure to provide source code, and link's to any libraries or compilers used.

Protection- As of now, we lack these type of articles. Whether it is a basic article describing installing and configuring a firewall + rules, or an in depth article describing the use of a packet sniffer to detect un-wanted access on your wireless network.


Anyways, those are just a few ideas to consider before posting an article. From now on, please refrain from posting help articles. Thank you.