Anti-fraud, in the open
Every flag has a named reason from a published list. Every decision has a written explanation. This page is the whole machine.
Both sides of this marketplace get the same deal: brands never pay for results that fail verification, and clippers never lose a cent to a silent algorithm. Flagged activity is never paid, and every flag is explained. Here is exactly what can trip one, and what happens next.
What can trip a flag
Seven reasons. There is no eighth.
Velocity spike
View growth that does not look like real virality. Deltas run through a velocity filter tuned on organic curves; a bot-shaped spike freezes that clip's earnings for review instead of paying them.
Click flood
Bursts of track-link clicks from one device fingerprint or one narrow source. Duplicate clicks are already dropped at the door; a flood beyond dedup freezes the pattern for review.
Geo mismatch
Clicks or sales whose geography contradicts the clip's audience - for example, views from one country and purchases marching in from another. The mismatched results are frozen for review.
Self-purchase
A sale that traces back to the clipper who posted the link, or to a ring of connected accounts buying from each other. Commission exists for bringing real customers, so these sales are frozen for review.
Refund pattern
Sales that keep refunding or charging back shortly after commission is earned. A refunded sale already reverses its own accrual; a repeating pattern additionally freezes new sales from the same source for review.
Duplicate content
The same clip re-uploaded across accounts to collect the same reward twice. Each posted link is expected to be a distinct piece of work; copies are frozen for review.
Manual review
A human on our side saw something the detectors did not and froze it with a written reason. Manual flags follow exactly the same review path and land in the same journal as automatic ones.
What a flag actually does
- 1/3
The result freezes, not you
A flag freezes exactly the suspicious result: that clip's unverified deltas, that sale's commission. The campaign keeps running, your other earnings keep counting, and your posted links keep redirecting - a moderation decision never turns your published post into a dead link.
- 2/3
A human reviews it, with the reason on record
Every flag opens with a named reason from the list above and the evidence attached. A person with review rights decides it and has to write down why - the system will not accept a verdict without a written explanation.
- 3/3
The verdict is final math, journaled
Dismissed means clean: the freeze lifts and the result counts as if nothing happened. Confirmed means the pattern was real: that result is never paid. Either way the decision lands in an append-only journal that even we cannot edit or delete.
The lines we hold
- The list above is the whole list. A flag must name one of these published reasons; our database physically rejects any other value.
- A flag freezes a result, never your account. Bans are separate human decisions, always with a written reason and an appeal path.
- Refunds are not punishments. A refunded sale reverses its own commission on the refund rail, flag or no flag - and a refund alone never marks you a fraudster.
- Money never waits on a mood. Anything not flagged verifies and pays by the ordinary rules; anything flagged is decided by a person, not left to rot in a queue.
- Wrong call? Reply to the decision at hello@clipbeep.com. A human re-reads the case with the full history in front of them.
The clearing window and payout minimums that back all of this live on the payout policy page; the short version of everything is in the FAQ.