Forum:Your comment is being moderated

I've been trying to keep a record of all the comments I've written that have fallen under Nitrome's moderation filter and thus couldn't get through. It's frustrating, especially after examining the comment over and over to see what could have possibly snagged the monitor, so I wanted to see if any of you might be able to comprehend this predicament.

I haven't actually been keeping track of all the comments I posted until now XD, but there's a few I can remember. Anyways, the purpose of this thread isn't to frown upon Nitrome's comment filter, but more to investigate comments that do get marked as "moderated" and could perhaps find a trend.

Here's one comment, which was a reply to NOBODY on Avatar Advent Calendar:

''I remember playing that game. Precious minutes were spent trying to beat a single level, which felt more like twenty levels packed into one. I was so proud of myself for finally making it past level 5 - but before I could figure out a way to get past random matter, my game saves got erased. I should really consider taking it up again, if I'm in the mood for some frustration and defeat.''

I tried testing out certain parts of the comment with sentence by sentence posting. The first two sentences get through - but the third one doesn't. And if you edit your comment and it gets 'moderated', then the entire comment vanishes out of existence.

More moderated comments of mine include (I pasted them in a document, but I don't remember the post anymore.):


 * @aquafighter I support a Glassworks avatar too. :D Of course Nitrome will publish what they want to publish, but it's fun to hear what other avatar suggestions people have in mind. (By the way, I tried to reply to this comment yesterday, but it kept saying it was being moderated. How strange!) - oh the irony
 * Okay well for some reason, I could not comment on blog posts because all my comments were being "moderated", regardless of length. Anyways, I noticed the moon got larger (or is it the ship that got smaller?), so I'm curious as to how he's going to be able to explore the ship when he's about the same height as the ship itself. The moon is pretty massive stuff. XD

Some other notes:


 * I made that comment once about Lockehorn's mouth sort of looking like a bellybutton in the Avalanche skin. "Bellybutton" gets a comment moderated; "belly button" does not.

Like Nitrome said, the filter isn't perfect. It's probably doing its best though, considering I haven't seen anything significantly "inappropriate" pop up yet, and those that do get through are courteous enough to edit their comment when asked. But that aside, do you have any idea what words in these comments contain that triggers the filter? Feel free to post comments or observations as well. 06:58, December 15, 2013 (UTC)