> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.stage.systems/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Replies and tone

> See every reply, quote and repost of a campaign post the second it happens, with a read on the tone, and get told when people turn on a post.

<Warning>
  **Alpha.** Replies are X only for now. Instagram comments are a later slice; LinkedIn exposes nothing at this tier. Switched on per site by Stage.
</Warning>

The analytics panel's numbers tell you a post is being talked about. **Replies** tells you what is being said.

## What arrives

When someone replies to, quotes or reposts one of your campaign posts on X, it lands in the panel within a second or two. No refresh, no opening X.

| Item | What you see |
| - | - |
| **Reply** | The author, their follower count if it is above a thousand, the first line of what they wrote, a tone dot |
| **Quote** | The same, and it weighs double in the post's tone, because quotes are the sharpest takes |
| **Repost** | Counted as reach, never as opinion. No text, no tone |

Tap a row to read the whole reply and open it on X. The feed shows the five newest per post; **Show all** opens the rest.

## The tone

Each reply and quote is read by a small evaluation model that answers three fixed questions: is the attitude positive, neutral or negative; how strongly is it expressed; and what is it mainly about (praise, price, a bug, the design, a question). It gives a probability for each answer, not a verdict, and the panel sums those per post:

> 71% positive · 12% negative · 40 replies · 6 reposts

The bar under a post's name is the same split drawn out. Hover a tone dot for the model's confidence.

Sarcasm gets misread some of the time. That is why the raw text is always one tap away. A reply with a grey dot has not been scored yet.

## When people turn on a post

Three rules watch every post. Any one of them flags the post in the panel and emails everyone who can edit campaigns:

1. **Negative share.** At least 30% of scored replies read negative, once at least five have been scored.
2. **A burst.** Three negative replies inside ten minutes.
3. **A large account.** A negative quote from an account with ten thousand followers or more, at once.

The defaults are above. **Watch rules** in the Replies section changes them for this campaign, or switches the emails off. A flag stays until someone presses **Clear**. The alert itself stays in the history.

<Note>
  The flag is a prompt to read, not a judgement. Open the replies, decide whether to answer, and clear it.
</Note>

## What it costs

X charges a fraction of a cent per inbound reply and quote, from the same prepaid credit the metrics polling uses. Scoring is about three cents per thousand replies. A post with fifty replies costs well under a dollar end to end.


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