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I agree. My employer has a moderation product (for comments, usernames, etc): https://cleanspeak.com/

I don't work with it much, but from what I can see it's surprisingly complicated to filter out comments quickly without impacting user experience. I guess you know you've succeeded when the pottymouths join your platform :).

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Can I say "Scunthorpe" under your platform?

Can't say I've tested that one. Depends on how you have it configured, from a brief review of the docs: https://cleanspeak.com/docs/user-guides/cleanspeak-3.x.pdf

As I said, I haven't done much with this product.

These kinds of things never work because people will come up with infinite dog whistle terms for blocked terms. Things like "egg plant", "13%", etc. You couldn't possibly block all of these things without blocking a lot of legitimate discussion.

Hmm. Tell that to our customers, who seem to think it effective enough to purchase. :)

I think that you are not aiming for 100% automated moderation with a tool like this. Rather, you are looking to screen out the obvious stuff as quickly as you can, and then escalate the iffy content up to humans. But I speculate a bit.

Since I'm not familiar with the Cleanspeak platform, happy to set up a call with you and our sales team. My contact info is in my profile. :)

egg plant is a dog whistle? It is the "official" name for my google account. I am Mr. plant. I don't associate anything with it aside from a vegetable I don't particularly like.

More of a euphemism than a dog-whistle... https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/eggplant-emoji/

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