How moderation works

The forum is a tended room, not a surveilled one. Post, and your words appear immediately — nobody pre-approves them. Moderation happens after, and lightly. Knowing how it works should make you more comfortable posting, not less.

The flag

See something off? Flag it. Flagging is private — the poster never learns who — and a moderator looks at every flag, usually the same day.

What moderators do, in the order they prefer

1. Reply and steer. Most things are a conversation, not a case.
2. Ask the author to edit. A better title, a redacted screenshot, a softer word — usually that's all it takes.
3. Hide a post. You'll be told why, and how to bring it back.
4. Suspend an account — can still read, can't post. Rare, and it takes the founder's sign-off.

That ladder, in plain words, is the whole system.

The hard lines

Three things skip the ladder: selling, financial-advice-as-a-service, and sharing someone's numbers outside the room. Those aren't conversations.

Who's tending

SkrillaPlan's community managers — real people, named in the forum, working from a written playbook. Not "the moderation team." People with names, who you'll get to know the way you know a good host: mostly by how comfortable the room feels.