Short answer
Moderation means deciding, before or after a post is shown, whether to approve it, hold it for a person to review, or reject it. TidyTweet's tools help you make those decisions faster and more consistently: the rule builder encodes your policy, the filter tester checks your word lists, and the spam scorer sorts a queue. You then apply the result on X, in your CMS or in your social wall software.
What are the three moderation decisions?
Every post ends up approved, held for review, or rejected, and good moderation is mostly about deciding which posts need a human.
- Approve: the post is shown. Posts from your own team, your speakers and trusted regulars can be approved automatically.
- Hold: a person looks first. Use this for anything that depends on context, such as posts with links, or words that are fine in one sentence and awful in another.
- Reject: the post is never shown. Clear spam, slurs, scams, and accounts you've already removed.
Which tool do I use for which job?
Use the rule builder to write your policy down, the filter tester to check word lists, and the spam scorer to sort a busy queue.
| Job | Tool |
|---|---|
| Write down who and what is always allowed or blocked | Moderation rule builder |
| Check that a bad-word list catches variations and doesn't flag innocent words | Profanity filter tester |
| Find the spam in 200 replies quickly | Post spam scorer |
| Check links before approving a post | Link inspector |
| Make embedded posts on your site clean and private | Embed cleaner |
Where does the actual moderating happen?
On the platform or in the display tool: TidyTweet prepares the decisions, and you carry them out where the posts live.
On X that means reply controls, hiding replies, muted words, blocking and reporting; our guide to moderating replies on X walks through each one. On a website it means your CMS's comment settings or the embed code you choose to publish. On a screen at an event it means your social wall software's approval queue.
Common questions
Can TidyTweet approve or reject posts on X for me?
No. TidyTweet has no access to any account. It helps you decide; the action happens in X (hide reply, mute, block, report) or in whatever tool displays your feed.
Can I bulk approve or reject?
The spam scorer and rule builder both work on whole batches. Paste a queue, sort by score or by rule result, and handle each group at once in your own tool.