Moderate
Triage, not bottleneck.
Every submitted review goes through an automated moderation pipeline before publication. The pipeline checks for spam, off-topic content, profanity, PII, and abuse signals. Reviews that pass publish automatically. Reviews that trigger a threshold enter the staff moderation queue.
Vendably staff arbitrate disputes, not the merchant and not the reviewer, keeping the process structurally independent. Legal-risk flags trigger a 4-hour auto-hide. A full audit trail records every decision so there is always a clear record of what happened and why.
- Spam and toxicity detection at submission time
- Sentiment routing: positive fast-tracked, flagged escalated
- Manual override available at every queue stage
- Immutable audit trail: reason codes, timestamps, reviewer