How is community content moderated?

By reporting, with an automatic circuit breaker. Anyone can report an item, and when an item collects three open reports it is hidden automatically, before a human looks at it. An admin then decides whether to restore it or confirm the removal.

Three parts, and the middle one is the part that matters.

Anyone can report. Every shared item carries a Report this content action with three reasons and an optional details box:

• Inappropriate / harmful
• Spam / advertising
• Incorrect data / misleading

You can report a given item once.

Three reports hide it automatically. This is a database rule, not a queue someone works through — the third open report on an item hides it immediately. The effect is that obviously bad content disappears at the speed of the people who noticed it, not at the speed of a moderator's inbox.

Then a human decides. An admin reviewing the queue has three actions: Keep, which restores the item and closes the flag; Hide, which confirms the removal; and Hide + Ban, for an author who should not be publishing at all.

What this means for you as an author. An item of yours can be hidden by three reports before anyone has judged it. If something you shared vanishes, that is the likely reason, and the restore path is a human review rather than a re-upload.

Report the third category too. Incorrect data / misleading is the one people hesitate over because it feels less serious than the other two. In a trading context it is the most damaging of the three — a plausible, wrong rule costs more than obvious spam, because someone will follow it.