Word filter

Block words outright or swap them for something safer - before they ever reach your stream.

Every tip message runs through your word filter before it hits the queue, the overlay, or TTS. Moderation › Tip filter is where you build it. Your filter, your rules: censor anything you want, keep the rest.

Adding an entry

Press Add in the Word list panel. The first question is what the entry is, because that decides how it is matched:

• A word - a word or phrase you don’t want said, wherever it turns up. One word is caught inside longer words too: “john” catches “johnny” and “johnson”. A phrase is caught as a whole.
• A person’s name - a full name is only caught when all of it is there; “John” or “Smith” on their own are not. One name on its own is caught as a word of its own, but a word that merely contains it (“Johnson”) is not.
• An address - put the whole address in. Any identifying part of it is caught on its own: the street name, the postcode, the house number with the street, spaced or run together. A word that could be anywhere (“road”, “park”, the town by itself) is not.
• A place - a town, school, workplace or venue. Caught when the whole name is there. Other places with similar names are not.
• Something else - a handle, a link, a slogan. Caught as a whole.

The word filter matches each of these spelled as written. With the AI filter on, every kind is also caught in misspellings, sound-alikes, split and spelled-out letters, a name in its nicknames (“Jon Smyth” and “Johnny Smith” both count as John Smith; “Matt” catches “Matthew”), and an address in a number said as words.

Then choose what happens when it matches:

• Swap it out - the match is replaced (with your own replacement, or your default - out of the box “FILTERED”) and the rest of the message plays normally.
• Hold for review - the tip waits in the review queue instead of playing. A moderator reads it and allows it or rejects it. A rejected card tip was only ever held, so the viewer is never charged (if PayPal is on for your account, such a tip is already charged and stays charged unless you refund it). The viewer sees the normal success card either way.

Entries added before this page asked what they are show without a kind. They keep working as before; open one and pick a kind to give it the matching rules above.

Press an entry to edit or remove it.

Test the filter

The Test the filter panel takes a sample message and shows you exactly what would happen - which words matched, whether the tip would be blocked, and (with the AI filter on) the AI’s reasoning. Test your filter before your viewers do.

The limits of a wordlist

A wordlist catches exact matches. It doesn’t catch “Alicks Aderms” when you’ve banned “Alex Adams” - creative misspellings, spaced-out letters, and unicode tricks walk straight past regex. That’s the gap the AI filter closes.