Moderation API for reports, review queues, and appeals

ChefSphere moderation APIs cover reports, review queues, appeals, and automated safety checks so public UGC is not moderated in a shared inbox nobody owns. Social feeds, live chat, and publishing comments attract abuse; pretending otherwise is how brands learn the hard way in app stores and press. This guide is about moderation workflows—not social post creation and not live session hosting—even though those modules generate the content you review.

Keeping moderation intent distinct helps teams staff queues and set SLAs without burying trust work inside a generic community epic that never ships. It also clarifies prepaid burn: moderation scans sit above ordinary social writes on the published token-weight table because safety work is expensive. One shared balance still funds moderation beside social and live, starting with packs from $29 for 200,000 tokens after early access.

Reports need clear reasons, evidence references, and reporter integrity signals so queues are not flooded by rival spam campaigns during launch week. Review queues need assignment, priority, and outcomes operators can defend when a creator disputes a takedown in public channels. Appeals are not optional theater; they are how you show due process without reopening every closed case forever for sport.

Automated safety checks help at volume, but they are not a substitute for human review on edge cases that can destroy trust if handled poorly. Budget moderation scan weight explicitly when you open public commenting or live chat to strangers at launch with marketing spend behind it. Growth and Scale packs exist when safety traffic coincides with dense social or live usage in the same prepaid month.

Pair moderation with social and live before public launch, and pair with media when images need scanning before they appear in discovery surfaces. Pair with AI when prompts or vision inputs can produce policy violations your brand cannot ignore after screenshots spread. Early access onboarding is where we align which surfaces are moderated on day one versus private beta only.

Authenticate with an X-API-Key in the Firebase-style model and burn prepaid tokens per moderation operation on one platform ledger across modules. Unused tokens stay on your balance when report volume dips, which happens between viral moments and quieter product weeks for most apps. request early access and we email when onboarding opens.

Illustrative OpenAPI samples help you plan report and queue flows without treating fictional paths as production contracts for trust decisions. Production environments arrive with access so operators integrate against the real moderation surface for reports and appeals. Enterprise from $300 per month is available when dedicated limits or custom weights are required for high-volume safety stacks.

Define response times, escalation paths, and banned-behavior lists before marketing an open community that your two-person team cannot police overnight. Those operational decisions are product decisions; tooling alone does not create capacity for review queues that never sleep. Moderation without staffing plans becomes selective enforcement, which users notice immediately and review publicly in app stores.

Related guides on social feed, live streaming, and AI vision show where moderation plugs into engagement and generative surfaces you plan to ship. Request early access with your content types and whether live chat is public in version one of the product. We contact you when keys and packs are available.