Is this thread worth answering?

Yes. You can score any public thread without an account and without a card. A paid Alrebro plan adds a daily plan, comment angles, and alerts for the threads that matter — but the scorer itself costs nothing, and it never asks for your Reddit password or login.

The score is deterministic, from the pasted text: asking for a recommendation scores 70, complaining about a competitor 65, comparing tools 60, and describing a problem 55. Extra signals add up to 10 more, and a question in the title adds 10. No signal at all scores 0.

It is 0.6 times the intent score, plus points for the engagement you enter: up to 25 for comments and up to 15 for upvotes. A thread with strong intent and heavy discussion scores highest. It is an estimate from the pasted signals, not a measured citation rate — no tool can know whether an AI answer will cite a thread.

The tool cannot fetch a link without the Reddit API, and the public tools do not use it. Paste the thread's title and body text instead, plus the upvotes and comment count you can see on the thread — the score comes from exactly what you paste.

The AI reads the same pasted text and gives its own judgement — high, medium, low, or unclear — with an explanation, any buying signals the keyword rules missed, and a suggested reply angle. It is shown next to the rule score, never blended into it, so when the two disagree you can see both.

A high score means the poster is likely looking to buy and the thread is worth a helpful reply — not a sales pitch. Answer the question, share real experience, and mention your product only if the subreddit's rules allow it. Low scores are threads to skip, not threads to force.