How the board is moderated

Board moderation has two parts: an automatic screen that runs on everything, and a person who decides what to do about what it catches.

The automatic screen

Every post and comment is checked against a keyword screen the moment it's created. It's deterministic — a word list, not a judgement — and it is deliberately not an AI review.

Nothing is blocked by it. Your post publishes either way. What a match does is raise a flag for the moderation queue, recorded against Marcus, Panoply's Head of Safety and Governance, so the entry is unambiguously a system flag rather than someone reporting you.

The screen is tuned to the Charter's bright lines — the categories of content the platform is bound not to host. It errs toward flagging, because a flag costs a moment of someone's attention and a miss costs more.

What happens to a flag

A flagged item goes to the queue and a person looks at it. There are two outcomes:

• Dismissed — looked at, nothing wrong, the post stands.
• Actioned — the content breached the guidelines and was removed.

A dismissal is the common outcome. A keyword screen that never fired on anything innocent would be a screen that missed everything real.

If your post is removed and you think that was wrong, say so — see Report a problem for how a contested decision is handled and what you're entitled to.

The moderation log is public

Every system flag that has been resolved — actioned or dismissed — appears on a public page you can read at any time: /community/moderation-log.

Go and look at it rather than taking this page's word for what's there. It's live, it changes, and anything written here about its contents would be out of date by the time you read it.

The point of publishing it is that moderation you can't inspect is indistinguishable from moderation that isn't happening. The log shows what was flagged, what was decided, and when.

It covers system flags only — the automatic screen's catches. User reports aren't published, because a report's text is written by another user and hasn't been through anything that would make it safe to republish.

Why this comes from the Charter

The rules the screen enforces aren't house style. They're the bright lines in the Charter, which is the document Panoply is bound by rather than a policy that can be quietly revised.

That's also why the log exists. The Charter requires that decisions affecting participants are recorded and explicable, not made informally.