Moderation

Approval before a community quiz can be shared with anyone.

Decision: ⚪ idea

Context

The author can always take their own quiz. Sharing it requires our approval - the gate is enforced by the authoring flow state machine, not by convention.

Review checks:

• no illegal content, hate speech, or targeting of private individuals
• questions are answerable and not push-polled
• orientations and weights are coherent enough to produce a meaningful result
• result modules are configured and the quiz actually finishes
• not spam, not a near-duplicate of an existing quiz

Outcomes:

• approve -> quiz published
• reject with a written reason -> quiz need to be fixed
• reject and remove -> quiz is outside acceptable boundaries so we need to remove it

Opportunity

• Everything published under our name is our credibility, and credibility is the whole asset - see Why. A gate is what makes opening the editor survivable.
• Provides a quality floor in the window before quality score has enough data to rank anything.
• Written reasons double as creator education - the cheapest way to raise the median submission.

Risk

• Manual review is a human bottleneck on a volunteer team - the exact constraint this module exists to escape.
• Judgement calls on political content will be read as bias, so criteria must be published and reasons written down.
• Volume from LLM authoring can outpace reviewers faster than we can staff them.
• Latency demotivates creators at their most motivated moment.