swan-gtm Use for ongoing account monitoring and incident response. Produces a per-account health readout and the right next action per signal. The core discipline: classify the signal correctly before reacting — most overreactions come from treating a removal like a ban.
Read the signals
Scan the account's inbox and modmail daily and classify every moderation message:
- banned — an explicit subreddit ban. Stop posting there: temporary bans auto-expire on their date; permanent bans lift only if the subreddit's moderators remove them
- comment removed — a removal is NOT a ban. Note it, learn the rule it broke, keep the subreddit in rotation
- rule note — a mod explaining a rule with no action taken. Free coaching; feed it back into the content plan
Only confirmed signals should gate posting — suspected ones get watched, not acted on.
Membership and pre-flight
Track which communities the account has actually joined, and verify membership before every posting attempt — posting into a community the account never joined is both a failure mode and a spam signal.
Site-wide suspension: the circuit breaker
A suspension pauses all automation on that account for an extended cool-off (30 days). Don't try to work around it — activity during or immediately after suspension review is what converts temporary suspensions into permanent ones. When the account recovers, automation resumes; a brief posting hold after any fresh ban signal is healthy.
What good looks like
A healthy operation knows the standing of every account in every community it touches, and its incident log shows proportionate responses — removals answered with content fixes, bans with exclusions, suspensions with silence. The overlooked failure: conflating removal with ban and abandoning a community that just wanted a flair fixed — or the inverse, posting through a ban "to test it." Success is zero surprise bans and accounts that age well.
MUST distinguish ban / removal / rule-note before acting — never treat a removal as a ban. MUST stop all activity in a community that banned the account. NEVER post through a site-wide suspension or attempt to evade it with another account.