Reddit CQS Checker
Estimate any account's Contributor Quality Score from real public Reddit data — karma, age, activity quality, and community diversity.
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Score Breakdown
Reddit doesn't disclose CQS values. This score is an estimate built from public account signals that correlate with Reddit's five CQS tiers (lowest → highest).
What Is Reddit's Contributor Quality Score?
CQS (Contributor Quality Score) is an internal trust metric Reddit assigns to every account. Reddit never shows you the number — but it quietly decides how far your posts travel. Moderators can read it through AutoModerator, where it comes in five tiers: lowest, low, moderate, high, highest.
Why it matters
- Thousands of subreddits auto-filter posts and comments from accounts below a CQS threshold — your content disappears without any notice.
- Low-CQS accounts get less reach in feeds and slower appearance in "new" and "rising".
- For brands, low-CQS accounts make Reddit marketing effectively invisible — to users and to the AI systems that read Reddit.
How to improve your CQS
- Verify your email and keep the account in good standing.
- Contribute in a range of subreddits instead of hammering one.
- Earn upvotes with genuinely useful posts and comments — deleted and downvoted content drags you down.
- Avoid link-dropping and repetitive self-promotion; Reddit's spam signals feed directly into CQS.
- Let the account age. Trust compounds over months, not days.
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