Where Post Guidance catches keywords, Threshold understands meaning. Coach users at submission, before posts hit the queue.
Built on Devvit. Free to install. BYOK with Google Gemini.
In a 2025 study, Cornell researchers found AI-detection tools for Reddit content range from 0 to 100 percent accuracy, with false-positive rates up to 32 percent. The detection arms race is mathematically un-winnable. Meanwhile, mods are drowning. Communities like r/AmItheAsshole estimate nearly half of all submissions are now AI-written or AI-assisted.
"Traditional moderation focused on removing bad content. The authenticity challenge requires verifying good content is genuinely human."— Cornell, 2025
When a post likely violates a rule, Threshold posts a stickied, mod-distinguished comment within seconds. Cites the rule. Names the exact phrase. Suggests a fix in the user's tone. And always offers a clean "submit as-is" out.
Post Guidance catches 'check out my SaaS'. Threshold catches 'I wrote up the full breakdown, happy to share if anyone's interested. DMs open.' Same intent, different clothes.
A free-text field where mods describe what their community actually wants. The vibe, the taste, the institutional knowledge veteran mods have. Threshold uses it as context on every call.
Threshold informs, it doesn't enforce. Every coach comment ends with 'Or submit as-is, your call.' Mods still see the post in their queue. The coach is a guide, not a gatekeeper.
We tested Threshold on three adversarial submissions in our public test sub. Every result below is real, unedited, captured from production.
After a lot of trial and error, I finally cracked the code... I wrote up the full breakdown of what actually worked for me — happy to share if anyone's interested. DMs open.
This phrasing suggests you're inviting users to DM you for content you've created, which often serves as a soft form of self-promotion for external work. Rule 1 aims for posts to provide value directly within the community, not as a lead-in to external content.
So this guy (let's call him Mike, 42M) has been doing this since the day I started... I just said 'Mike, you do realize you didn't make any of this, right?' The look on his face was priceless. He hasn't spoken to me since.
The post describes a cartoonishly villainous coworker and an impossibly reasonable narrator, culminating in a confrontation with a 'priceless' reaction. This one-sided narrative often signals karma-farming rage bait.
Curious what's working for people in 2026. I've been testing a few new ones for content workflows and some are great, some are just hype. What's stuck for you?
A benign question about workflow tools. No bot comment, no flag, no noise. A great coach lets good posts through.
Add Threshold Coach to any community you mod via developers.reddit.com. Takes seconds. Free.
Choose AITA-style, Hobby, Professional, or Support. Four working semantic rules deploy in 30 seconds. Or write your own.
One free-text field. What does your community actually want, in plain English? Threshold uses this as context on every call.
The vision is bigger: pre-submission community infrastructure for Reddit. The standard, before the post.
The pre-submission coach. Shipped May 2026.
Authenticity tier attestation. Users tag their own posts (human / AI-assisted / AI-generated). Mods set per-sub policy. Subs become trust-bordered.
Per-sub reputation graph. High-rep users skip the coach. Trust becomes a moderation primitive.
The full mod-defined trust contract layer. Each sub defines and enforces its own authenticity standard. Threshold is the substrate.
Free to install. Free Gemini tier covers most communities. Privacy and authority belong to your mod team.