Avoiding anti-patterns

The peer review network has anti-gaming logic. Most users never hit it. If you're reading this because you got flagged, this is what probably happened.

1. Cooldown violations

Same reviewer-reviewee pair can only exchange reviews every 90 days. Matching the same person repeatedly means you're either running a reciprocal inflation ring or you've exhausted their utility. Either way — cooldown.

2. Rep farming

Very short reviews (under 200 chars, consistent pattern) with uniformly high scores are flagged as low-effort. You're detected when your average review length & your average rating received diverge too much from the platform norm.

3. Sycophancy

A review that only compliments with no specific criticism triggers a manual flag queue. We don't auto-flag (false positive rate too high) but recipients will, and their flag removes the credit.

4. Bad-faith reviews

Reviews that trash an app to push the reviewer's own agenda ("this is bad because they didn't use MY framework") get flagged by recipients and recounted during reputation calculation. One is noise; repeated pattern costs rep sharply.

5. Rate limiting

More than 8 reviews in 24 hours is suspicious. The platform blocks you from accepting a 9th until the oldest rolls off the window. This is a speed bump against bulk-farming rep.

What to do if you were flagged incorrectly

Every flag can be disputed via the review detail view. A human reads disputes inside 48 hours and restores credits + rep if the flag was wrong. Repeat disputes without merit themselves count against rep — the dispute system isn't free retry.