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reddit~4 min to deploy
Reddit Moderation Safety Baseline
Toxicity, account-age, and brigading controls for automated moderation — with a signed reason for every removal.
For: Trust & safety and community ops running automated moderation
Auditable enforcement trailAppeal-ready evidence
What it enforces
Toxicity threshold
Removes content above the toxicity threshold for young accounts.
Account-age guard
Escalates removals on established accounts for human review.
Brigading signal
Restrains mass actions that match a coordinated-brigade pattern.
reddit-mod-safety-baseline.yaml
# Reddit Moderation Safety Baseline
# Fork: adjust thresholds; every removal emits an appeal-ready dossier.
apiVersion: decionis.dev/v1
kind: PolicyPack
metadata:
name: reddit-mod-safety-baseline
surface: reddit
standards: [auditable-enforcement]
defaults:
mode: shadow
emit_dossier: true
rules:
- name: toxicity_threshold
when: "action == 'moderation.remove'"
decision: |
REMOVE IF toxicity > 0.85 AND author.account_age_days < 30
ESCALATE IF toxicity > 0.85
ALLOW OTHERWISE
reason_code: toxicity_over_threshold
- name: account_age_guard
when: "action == 'moderation.remove'"
decision: |
ESCALATE IF author.account_age_days >= 365
ALLOW OTHERWISE
reason_code: established_account_review
- name: brigading_signal
when: "action == 'moderation.bulk_remove'"
decision: |
RESTRAIN IF signals.coordinated_pattern == true
ALLOW OTHERWISE
reason_code: coordinated_brigade_suspected
Fork it, change the thresholds to match your environment, and deploy in shadow mode first — it defaults to listen-only so nothing in your live pipeline changes.