James

We are building our pre-launch presence the way everyone says to: answer questions, be useful, do not pitch. Reddit seemed to be going fine. Then I checked properly and found that every comment we had left in one subreddit had been removed within seconds of posting.

The part worth knowing is that we could not see it. A removed comment still looks completely normal to the person who wrote it. It sits there on the thread when you visit your own profile. The only signal is a bot reply, and that lands under Notifications rather than your inbox, so if you are not looking for it you will not find it. We lost two days before noticing.

The mechanism is something called Contributor Quality Score. It is a site-wide score Reddit assigns your account, separate from karma, and subreddits can set automod to reject anyone below a threshold. You are not shown your score anywhere in the interface.

There is a way to check it. A subreddit called r/phcareers runs a public thread where you comment and a bot replies with your band: lowest, low, moderate, high or highest.

We ve been thinking about this a lot while building Traccia.

One behavior we ve seen with MCP workflows is an agent getting into repeated tool calls without making meaningful progress. The workflow hasn t necessarily failed it can just keep going.

That got us thinking about a different kind of agent monitoring: not just detecting errors, but defining boundaries on execution.

I sometimes get questions on LinkedIn from people who come from Product Hunt:

"What should I post about so that my thread is approve / featured?"

"I want to be more visible, so I need to contribute. About what?"