How do I create a moderated feed or social wall?

What are the steps?

Pick your sources, decide your default, write rules, test them, and plan what happens when the queue gets busy.

1. Choose sources. A hashtag, mentions of your account, a hand-picked list of accounts, or a mix. The narrower the source, the less moderation you need.
2. Pick a default. For a screen in a room full of people, hold everything by default (pre-moderation). For a page on your own site that few people watch live, approving by default and removing problems quickly can be enough.
3. Write rules. In the rule builder: allow-list your own accounts and speakers, block known spammers, reject obvious spam phrases, hold anything with a link.
4. Test. Paste last year's posts, or this week's posts on a similar hashtag, and see what each rule does.
5. Load the rules into your wall tool (CSV, JSON or a plain keyword list).
6. Staff the queue. Decide who approves, how fast, and who can pull a post that slipped through.

What should the fallback be?

Have a non-live screen ready, such as a schedule, sponsor slide or curated posts, so you can switch away from the live feed in seconds.

Live feeds get raided. A hashtag that trends during your event attracts spam accounts within minutes. If your wall tool supports it, keep a "pause" that freezes the current approved posts. If not, keep a browser tab with a static slide ready. Our event social wall guide has a full run sheet.