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The problem

You’ve written a rule, but you don’t trust it yet. Turn it on and a mistake hits real users — content wrongly rejected, people wrongly warned. Leave it off and you never find out whether it works.

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The view

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Put the rule in shadow mode

A shadow-flagged rule evaluates every item and records what it would have done, without affecting the response your app acts on.
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Build the view

Filter Flag status → Shadow flagged.

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Reading it

This view is a list of decisions your rule wanted to make. Work it like a proofreading pass rather than a queue:
  • Items you’d have actioned yourself — the rule is right.
  • Items you’d have left alone — false positives, and the reason to keep it in shadow.
When the view stops surprising you, enforce the rule. If it’s mostly noise, adjust the thresholds and watch again.
Corrections you make here still count. They feed adaptive optimization exactly as corrections in any other view do.