RashguardGetting started with Rashguard
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Understand your participation before deciding what to post next.
Rashguard brings your own Reddit activity and community posting checks into Chrome’s side panel. It helps you answer a practical question: what should you review before you contribute to this community? Start with the community’s current rules, then use the activity overview to see how your recent participation fits those expectations.
Open a community and review your activity
With Rashguard installed in Chrome, visit a subreddit while signed in to Reddit and click the Rashguard toolbar icon. The side panel follows the community you are viewing. You can review your posts and comments over the last 7, 30, or 90 days, including how recently you posted and whether previous posts were removed.
Look beyond the total number of comments. Comments on other people’s posts, replies in different discussions, and participation over several weeks give you a more useful picture of your history. A sudden burst of comments immediately before promoting something is different from contributing regularly because you enjoy the community.
Add the brands you work on
Open Settings and add the names of your apps, products, or sites, along with their domains and alternate names. Rashguard uses those entries to distinguish mentions of your own work from other participation. Keep the list specific enough to identify your products without accidentally matching common words.
Brand information helps the checks interpret promotional activity. It can also help identify a post that mentions your product without explaining your connection to it. Read the actual community rule before relying on a disclosure check: requirements and acceptable wording can differ between communities.
Read the reasons behind a posting verdict
The posting verdict brings together measurable community rules and broader participation cautions. A failed community rule can tell you to hold off. Other cautions may suggest building more history or taking extra care. Review each explanation rather than treating the summary as permission to post.
Rashguard’s Contributor Score is an estimate of participation, not an official Reddit metric. It reflects signals such as helping on other people’s threads, participating over time, and balancing promotional activity with other contributions. A high score cannot guarantee that moderators will approve your submission, and a low score is not a judgment about you.
Use reminders instead of rushing
If a posting cooldown ends in the future, you can set a Chrome reminder or add the date to your calendar. Chrome reminders depend on Chrome running; a reminder that comes due while the browser is closed can appear when it starts again. When you return, review the community rules again before submitting.
Keep the final decision yours
Community moderators make the final decision about what belongs in their community. Read pinned guidance, check the current rules, and consider whether your post helps the people who will read it. Rashguard makes your activity easier to inspect, but the most useful next step may be answering someone’s question, improving your draft, or waiting.
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