Automatic Acceptance
Monitors deliver References as pending. When nobody has voted and the site's Cyclotron is confident enough, Papyrus accepts them after a delay. The threshold and the delay are learned from each site's own editors. Live on Papyrus sites since 2026-10-29; labelled, and never fed back as a vote.
Automatic Acceptance
Monitors deliver References to a site as pending. Editors steer by voting accept or reject, and that is how the site's Cyclotron learns what the publication wants. Automatic Acceptance does the routine part in between: when nobody has voted on a Reference and the Cyclotron is confident that it is relevant, Papyrus accepts it after a delay, so the editors spend their votes on the cases that need them.
This is live on Papyrus sites as of 2026-10-29 (Papyrus 5.55.0). It is on by default for every site and is switched off per site in configuration.
What gets accepted
The site's Cyclotron gives each pending Reference a relevance prediction with a confidence. A Reference is accepted automatically only when all of these hold:
- nobody has voted on it;
- the prediction is "relevant" and its confidence is at or above the site's learned threshold;
- the site's learned delay has passed since it arrived.
Everything else stays pending for an editor.
Nothing is a fixed number
Neither the threshold nor the delay is a setting someone picked. Each is learned per site, from that site's own editors.
| Learned value | How it is learned |
|---|---|
| Threshold | The lowest confidence at which the editors' accept rate reaches the site's target precision (90% by default). The accept rate is measured cautiously, as the lower bound of a 95% Wilson interval, so a few lucky votes do not lower the bar. |
| Delay | How long editors normally take to vote: the time by which they have cast 90% of their votes (the 0.9 quantile of vote latency). Papyrus waits about as long as an editor normally would. |
With too few votes, or with editors who disagree too much, there is no confidence at which the accept rate is high enough, so nothing is accepted automatically, and the reason is logged. A new site starts by being voted on and earns the automation as its votes accumulate.
Labelled, and never a vote
An automatically accepted Reference is marked Accepted automatically, with an icon and the words, never colour alone. It is never sent to the Cyclotron as an editor's vote, so the model never trains on its own guesses. An editor can still reject it, or accept it again, later, and that counts as a normal vote.
Rule monitors
Some monitors deliver by a fixed rule instead of a Cyclotron, such as every TTAB ruling for a trademark publication like Distinctive Mark. There the rule match is the acceptance. Those References are marked Accepted automatically (by rule).
Each site learns only from its own votes
A vote on one site never changes another site's classifier, even when the sites share a story. Each publication's threshold, delay and Cyclotron come from its own editors.
Where it fits
Editors rate, Automatic Acceptance fills in the confident items, Daily Story Drafts write about what was accepted, and editors review the drafts. That is the loop a Papyrus site runs: editors steer with votes, and Papyrus does the routine work in between, so the feed they steer keeps surprising them. Nothing here publishes a story; see Proposals and Review Requests.