No-astroturfing policy

Reddit is structurally dismantling the bot playbook: API pre-approval, human verification, lawsuits. ThreadCite is built for the other side of that war. This page is the public, binding version of the pledge on our homepage. It applies to our code, our company, and every customer account.

There is no code path in ThreadCite that submits posts, comments, votes, edits, or direct messages on Reddit. Not behind a flag, not on a schedule, not on your behalf. Drafts end at a copy button; a human pastes and posts from their own account. Our continuous integration fails the build if a write path is ever introduced.

No upvote pods, karma farming, engagement rings, or any feature that coordinates votes or inflates engagement. We will not build them, and accounts that organize them around ThreadCite output lose access.

No sockpuppets, purchased accounts, or “managed” personas. ThreadCite connects to one Reddit username per brand: a real person, posting as themselves, accountable for what they write.

All Reddit data comes through the official Data API under a registered, read-only app, within its rate limits. If the API is down or denies a request, we wait. There is no HTML-scraping fallback, ever.

Any draft that mentions your product includes a disclosure snippet (for example, “Full disclosure: I work on X”) by default. Subreddit rule cards, promo-ratio meters, and weekly cadence caps run before the draft screen, so the compliant path is the easy path.

Some guardrails can be overridden by a human who insists. Every override is written to an audit log with who, what, and when, and we tell you at the moment of override that we think it is a bad idea. Patterns of override that amount to spam are grounds for termination.

Using ThreadCite output for coordinated inauthentic behavior breaks our terms and gets the account terminated, without refund. If you believe someone is abusing ThreadCite, email abuse@threadcite.app with a link. A human reads every report.