What is the residual score, and why can it override a good score?

The residual score is the same model re-run over only the four signals that survive deleting the link — standalone value, rule match, contribution ratio and account standing — renormalised to 100. Override A caps the verdict at the residual's band. If the post is not worth posting without the link, the link is the post, and every community treats that as advertising. Override A is worsen-only: it can never improve a verdict.

Can a post score 80 and still fail the Checkpoint?

Yes. The sample proves it: post P-07 scores 80 out of 100, which is the POSTABLE band, but its residual is 72 because the community's written rules do not permit the post. Override A caps it at REWRITE. There is also a proven bound in the other direction — Override A alone can never move a post from POSTABLE all the way to WILL BE REMOVED, because reaching a score of 75 requires a residual of at least 66. That bound is proved exhaustively over all 729 mark combinations, not asserted.

What is the precedent floor?

Override B. If the community has removed a post of this type before and the condition that caused the removal is unchanged, the verdict is WILL BE REMOVED regardless of score. You are not predicting an outcome at that point; you are repeating one. Marking the precedent as resolved does not fire the override — the sample includes a post that proves it stays inert.

Does the Checkpoint connect to Reddit, LinkedIn, or any other platform?

No. It is fully offline and deterministic. It fetches nothing, posts nothing, reads no account, and calls no API. Every input is a mark you make from the community's own published rules and your own posting history, and the same inputs always return the same verdict. There is no evaluation date anywhere in the product, so nothing in it drifts.

Does the Checkpoint score people?

No. It grades a planned post and the account posture behind it — never a person, and never a moderator. It is not a moderation tool, not an audit, and not a way to evaluate anyone's behaviour. It is not legal advice, and disclosure obligations for paid or affiliated promotion vary by jurisdiction and platform; confirm yours.

For founders posting into rooms they do not own

Delete the link.If nothing is left, the link is the post.

Name: Self-Promo Survivability Checkpoint
Brand: RedHub AI
SKU: SPS-079
Price: 79 USD
Availability: InStock

Every moderated community removes self-promotion on the same structural grounds, and every founder learns them by getting removed. This grades the post before you publish it — six signals, three verdicts, and a ceiling that reads the post as if the link were already gone.

Get the Checkpoint — $79one-time · instant download · yours to keepdeterministic · offline · grades posts, never people

Six deliverables · runnable

Runnable Python engine

stdlib

Workbook that reproduces it

.xlsx

2,187-combination verifier

exhaustive

Pre-Post Playbook

.docx

Rewrite Runbook

.docx

Seven-post worked sample

.csv

Works alongside

Anti-Slop Content System · Founder / Exec LinkedIn Authority System · GEO / AI Visibility Playbook

01.The Problem

You do not get told why the post was removed. You get told nothing.

0

Explanations you receive

Most removals are silent. The post simply stops being visible to anyone but you, which is why founders repeat the same mistake for months.

6

Signals that decide it

Standalone value, rule match, contribution ratio, affiliation disclosure, account standing, link placement. Weights sum to 100.

1

Account you get

Standing is the input to every future post's score. Burning it in one community is not a bad day; it closes the room.

The advice everyone gives is “add value, don’t just drop links.” That is true and useless, because it is not testable before you press post. This makes it testable: delete the link, re-score the post on only what is left, and let that number cap the verdict.

02.See It Work

Change a mark. Watch the ceiling bite.

Load a sample post

Grading r/SaaS. Change any mark and the verdict recomputes. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Standalone valueweight 24 · residual

Delete the link. Is anything left?

Worth reading with the link deleted.

Community rule matchweight 20 · residual

What do the written rules actually say?

The rules are silent, ambiguous, or conditional on something unmet.

Contribution ratioweight 16 · residual

What has this account given this community before today?

Some non-promotional history, but promotion is a large share.

Affiliation disclosureweight 16

Does the post say you built or sell the thing?

Stated plainly in the post body, before the link.

Account standingweight 12 · residual

Where does this account stand in THIS community?

Established elsewhere, little standing here, no removals.

Link placement and countweight 12

How many links, and where?

At most one plain link, placed after the value.

Removal precedent

Has this community removed a post of this type before?

Score

76/100

Band: POSTABLE

Residual · link deleted

67/100

Band: REWRITE

OVERRIDE A — residual ceiling. Capped at REWRITE: without the link this post would not be worth posting.

Verdict

REWRITE

Fix first: Community rule match

This grades a post, never a person. It contacts no platform and cannot predict a moderator's decision.

Load P-02 and P-03 back to back. They differ by a single mark — contribution ratio — and that one mark is the difference between a capped REWRITE and a clean POSTABLE. Load P-05 for a post that scores 86 and still reads WILL BE REMOVED, because the community already removed this exact thing once.

03.The Engine, Run

This is the real output of the shipped engine on the shipped sample.

Nothing below is written by hand. It is the verbatim stdout of python3 engine.py posts-sample.csv, captured programmatically and diffed against this page before publishing.

========================================================================
SELF-PROMO SURVIVABILITY CHECKPOINT  -  SPS-079  -  RedHub AI LLC
========================================================================
Grades planned posts. Scores posts, never people.
No platform is contacted. No moderator decision is predicted.

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POST P-01   [r/smallbusiness weekly thread]
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  Standalone value           2/2   weight 24   (residual)
  Community rule match       2/2   weight 20   (residual)
  Contribution ratio         2/2   weight 16   (residual)
  Affiliation disclosure     2/2   weight 16
  Account standing           2/2   weight 12   (residual)
  Link placement and count   2/2   weight 12

  Score                      100/100   -> POSTABLE
  Residual (link deleted)    100/100   -> POSTABLE
  Removal precedent          none
  Overrides                  none fired

  VERDICT                    POSTABLE
  Fix first                  nothing - every signal is at 2

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POST P-02   [r/SaaS]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Standalone value           2/2   weight 24   (residual)
  Community rule match       1/2   weight 20   (residual)
  Contribution ratio         1/2   weight 16   (residual)
  Affiliation disclosure     2/2   weight 16
  Account standing           1/2   weight 12   (residual)
  Link placement and count   2/2   weight 12

  Score                       76/100   -> POSTABLE
  Residual (link deleted)     67/100   -> REWRITE
  Removal precedent          none
  OVERRIDE A FIRED  residual ceiling: capped at REWRITE

  VERDICT                    REWRITE
  Fix first                  Community rule match

------------------------------------------------------------------------
POST P-03   [r/SaaS (twin: history added)]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Standalone value           2/2   weight 24   (residual)
  Community rule match       1/2   weight 20   (residual)
  Contribution ratio         2/2   weight 16   (residual)
  Affiliation disclosure     2/2   weight 16
  Account standing           1/2   weight 12   (residual)
  Link placement and count   2/2   weight 12

  Score                       84/100   -> POSTABLE
  Residual (link deleted)     78/100   -> POSTABLE
  Removal precedent          none
  Overrides                  none fired

  VERDICT                    POSTABLE
  Fix first                  Community rule match

------------------------------------------------------------------------
POST P-04   [r/marketing]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Standalone value           1/2   weight 24   (residual)
  Community rule match       1/2   weight 20   (residual)
  Contribution ratio         0/2   weight 16   (residual)
  Affiliation disclosure     2/2   weight 16
  Account standing           2/2   weight 12   (residual)
  Link placement and count   2/2   weight 12

  Score                       62/100   -> REWRITE
  Residual (link deleted)     47/100   -> WILL BE REMOVED
  Removal precedent          none
  OVERRIDE A FIRED  residual ceiling: capped at WILL BE REMOVED

  VERDICT                    WILL BE REMOVED
  Fix first                  Contribution ratio

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POST P-05   [Hacker News Show HN]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Standalone value           2/2   weight 24   (residual)
  Community rule match       2/2   weight 20   (residual)
  Contribution ratio         1/2   weight 16   (residual)
  Affiliation disclosure     2/2   weight 16
  Account standing           1/2   weight 12   (residual)
  Link placement and count   2/2   weight 12

  Score                       86/100   -> POSTABLE
  Residual (link deleted)     81/100   -> POSTABLE
  Removal precedent          unchanged
  OVERRIDE B FIRED  precedent floor: this exact removal already happened

  VERDICT                    WILL BE REMOVED
  Fix first                  Contribution ratio

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POST P-06   [r/webdev]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Standalone value           0/2   weight 24   (residual)
  Community rule match       1/2   weight 20   (residual)
  Contribution ratio         0/2   weight 16   (residual)
  Affiliation disclosure     1/2   weight 16
  Account standing           1/2   weight 12   (residual)
  Link placement and count   1/2   weight 12

  Score                       30/100   -> WILL BE REMOVED
  Residual (link deleted)     22/100   -> WILL BE REMOVED
  Removal precedent          resolved
  Overrides                  none fired

  VERDICT                    WILL BE REMOVED
  Fix first                  Standalone value

------------------------------------------------------------------------
POST P-07   [Indie Hackers]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Standalone value           2/2   weight 24   (residual)
  Community rule match       0/2   weight 20   (residual)
  Contribution ratio         2/2   weight 16   (residual)
  Affiliation disclosure     2/2   weight 16
  Account standing           2/2   weight 12   (residual)
  Link placement and count   2/2   weight 12

  Score                       80/100   -> POSTABLE
  Residual (link deleted)     72/100   -> REWRITE
  Removal precedent          none
  OVERRIDE A FIRED  residual ceiling: capped at REWRITE

  VERDICT                    REWRITE
  Fix first                  Community rule match

========================================================================
QUEUE ROLLUP
========================================================================
  Posts graded               7
  Will be removed            3  (43%)
  QUEUE VERDICT              QUEUE WILL BURN THE ACCOUNT
  Fix first                  P-06 - Standalone value
========================================================================

04.The Standard

Six weighted signals, three verdicts, two overrides, one proven bound.

The score

Standalone value 24, community rule match 20, contribution ratio 16, affiliation disclosure 16, account standing 12, link placement 12. Weights sum to 100. POSTABLE at 75 or more, REWRITE from 50 to 74, WILL BE REMOVED under 50.

Override A — residual ceiling

The same model re-run over only the four signals that survive deleting the link, renormalised to 100. The verdict may be no better than the residual's band. Worsen-only: it can never improve a result. It fires on 198 of the 2,187 possible inputs.

Override B — precedent floor

If this community has removed a post of this type before and the cause is unchanged, the verdict is WILL BE REMOVED regardless of score. Marking the cause resolved leaves the override inert, and the sample proves both states.

The proven bound

Override A alone can never move a post from POSTABLE to WILL BE REMOVED. Reaching a score of 75 requires a residual of at least 66, which is at worst the REWRITE band. That is not a claim — the shipped verifier proves it exhaustively across all 729 mark combinations, and prints the minimum residual it found. Only the precedent floor can take a strong post to WILL BE REMOVED, and only because the removal already happened.

05.What This Is — And Isn't

It grades a post you wrote. It does not grade a room, a moderator, or you.

What it is

A pre-publish structural check on a post you are about to make.
Deterministic and offline — same inputs, same verdict, every time.
A named model you can argue with: weights, bands and overrides are all on this page.
Dateless. There is no evaluation date anywhere in the product, so nothing drifts.

What it isn’t

Not a prediction of a moderator’s decision. Moderation is a human judgement and no tool can guarantee an outcome.
Not connected to anything. It fetches no page, reads no account, and posts nothing.
Not a way to get promotional posts past a rule. A post the rules forbid scores as a post the rules forbid.
Not an audit, not a moderation tool, and it scores no people.

Scope note: disclosure obligations for paid, sponsored or affiliated promotion vary by jurisdiction and by platform, and the affiliation signal here is a structural check on your own post, not a compliance determination. Confirm your own obligations. This is not legal advice.

06.Who It's For

Anyone whose distribution depends on rooms they do not control.

Built for

Solo founders whose only free channel is other people’s communities.
Bootstrapped teams with a product nobody has heard of yet.
Agencies posting on behalf of clients, where a removal costs a relationship.
Anyone who has been silently removed and never found out why.

Not built for

Anyone looking for a way around a community’s stated rules.
Teams running paid placements, where the rules are contractual, not communal.
Moderators evaluating other people’s posts — this grades your own.
Anyone expecting a guarantee. There is no guaranteed outcome here.

07.Pairs Well With

The Checkpoint says whether the post survives. These three shape what it says.

Anti-Slop Content System$79

The Checkpoint grades whether the post survives the room. This grades whether it was worth reading in the first place.

View

Founder / Exec LinkedIn Authority System$79

Account standing is an input here and an output there. Build the standing that lifts every future post's score.

View

GEO / AI Visibility Playbook$149

This lane is human reach. That one is machine reach — getting cited by the answer engines once the post is live.

View

08.Common Questions

The mechanics, stated plainly.

No. It cannot, and no tool can — moderation is a human decision made by people you have never met. What it does is grade the structural properties that get posts removed: whether the post survives deleting the link, whether the community's written rules permit it, what the account has contributed there before, whether the affiliation is disclosed, the account's standing, and how the link is placed. Six signals, weights summing to 100, three verdicts: POSTABLE at 75 or more, REWRITE from 50 to 74, WILL BE REMOVED under 50.

Find out before the room does.
Not after.

One purchase, lifetime access, 12 months of updates. $79, once.

Get the Checkpoint — $79

Deterministic and offline. It grades posts, never people, and cannot predict a moderator’s decision. Not legal advice.

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Delete the link.If nothing is left, the link is the post.

You do not get told why the post was removed. You get told nothing.

Change a mark. Watch the ceiling bite.

This is the real output of the shipped engine on the shipped sample.

Six weighted signals, three verdicts, two overrides, one proven bound.

It grades a post you wrote. It does not grade a room, a moderator, or you.

Anyone whose distribution depends on rooms they do not control.

The Checkpoint says whether the post survives. These three shape what it says.

The mechanics, stated plainly.

Find out before the room does.Not after.

Find out before the room does.
Not after.