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Has Sloan Flagged Your Article Lately?

A developer on DEV.to reports having two articles flagged by the platform's moderation bot, Sloan, in a single day. Both flagged essays generated high engagement, including technical discussions and an AI-generated podcast episode, leading the developer to question whether there is a pattern behind the flagging.

read1 min publishedJun 15, 2026

Mine got flagged twice in one day.

Both essays generated more engagement than anything else I've published here. One had a five-exchange technical comment thread building a production architecture on top of it. The other had an AI podcast episode generated from it before it even published.

The founder of DEV.to liked one of them before the bot flagged it.

I'm not here to argue about the policy. The guidelines are reasonable. AI disclosure is fair. I added the disclaimers and moved on.

But I want to know if this is just me.

If Sloan has flagged you recently, drop a comment. Three things I'm curious about: I want to know if there's a pattern or if I got unlucky twice in one day.

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