Unusual-day flag in detail
Any step challenge attracts a few outliers: a phone strapped to a ceiling fan, a data glitch, a genuinely heroic trek. The unusual-day flag is the programme's immune response. When a day's steps look implausible against the participant's pattern or the programme's rules, the day is flagged and queued for review. The organiser can accept it, exclude it or adjust it, and admin-added steps are separately recorded. Flags work alongside daily caps and manual-entry exclusion, which together define what counts as a valid synced day, the unit used in wellness reporting. The aim is fairness rather than policing. A visible, consistent rule lets participants trust the leaderboard, and the review queue keeps suspicious days from silently distorting team totals. Programme owners should publish the principle early, review flagged days promptly during the programme and avoid accusatory language, since most flags have innocent explanations.
How Sociana uses it
Flags appear in the wellness admin views for review. They are one of the fair-play controls alongside daily caps and manual-entry exclusion.
Example
A corporate walking expedition reviewed flagged days weekly so team totals stayed trustworthy.