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title: "Community Roles Knowledge Base Article | ThreatConnect"
slug: "community-roles"
description: "This article defines all Community roles in ThreatConnect and lists all permissions for each Community role with respect to Community administration and threat intelligence."
updated: 2024-04-19T18:42:19Z
published: 2024-04-19T18:42:19Z
canonical: "knowledge.threatconnect.com/community-roles"
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# Community Roles

Table 1 defines each owner role for a Community.

| Owner Role | Definition |
| --- | --- |
| **User** | Users that can only view existing data in a Community. |
| **Commenter** | Users that can view existing data and create and reply to Posts in a Community. |
| **Contributor** | Users that can view existing data, create and reply to Posts, and create Indicators, Groups, and Tags in a Community. |
| **Editor** | Users that can view, create, and delete data (i.e., Posts and threat intelligence), as well as edit threat intelligence, in a Community. |
| **Director** | Users that can view, create, and delete data (i.e., Posts and threat intelligence), edit threat intelligence, and administrate members in a Community. |
| **Banned** | Users that have no access at all to a Community. |
| **Subscriber** | Users that can only view [published](/v1/docs/the-publish-feature) data from a Community. |

## Community Administration

Table 2 provides the specific permissions for each Community owner role with respect to Community administration. System Administrators can view these settings under the **Access Control** tab of the **Edit Owner Role** window for the owner role. The permissions are defined in the [“Community” subsection of the “Intel Access Permissions” section of *Permission Definitions*](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/permission-definitions#community).

| Owner Role | Invite | Membership | Settings | Attribute Type | Security Label |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **User** | None | None | None | Read | Read |
| **Commenter** | None | None | None | Read | Read |
| **Contributor** | None | None | None | Read | Create |
| **Editor** | None | None | Full | Full | Full |
| **Director** | Allowed | Modify | Full | Full | Full |
| **Banned** | None | None | None | None | None |
| **Subscriber** | None | None | Read | Read | Read |

## Threat Intelligence

Table 3 provides the specific permissions for each Community owner role with respect to threat intelligence. System Administrators can view these settings under the **Intel** tab of the **Edit Owner Role** window for the owner role. The permissions are defined in the [“Community” subsection of the “Threat Intelligence Permissions” section of *Permission Definitions*](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/permission-definitions#community1).

| Owner Role | Attribute | Indicator, Group, Track, Victim | Tag | Copy Data | Post |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **User** | Read | Read | Read | None | Read |
| **Commenter** | Read | Read | Read | None | Create |
| **Contributor** | Create | Create | Full | Allowed | Create |
| **Editor** | Full | Full | Full | Allowed | Full |
| **Director** | Full | Full | Full | Allowed | Full |
| **Banned** | None | None | None | None | None |
| **Subscriber** | Read | Read | Read | None | Read |

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