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Content Moderation >>Moderate Words works by text string and not entire words

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  • December 5, 2023
  • 4 replies
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Rex11

Please give a quick overview of your product feature request or feedback and note who in your org is affected by this issue [ex. agents, admins, customers, etc.]. (2-3 sentences)

When using the Content Moderation >> Moderate Words tool, it matches strings, which essential makes the tool useless.

What problem do you see this solving? (1-2 sentences) 

Matching partial strings of a banned word list isn't helpful.  For example, "assistance" or "assurance" would get matched if you have "ass" in the word list.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool? What happened? How often does this problem occur and how does this impact your business? (3-4 sentences)

This is a daily issue when moderating posts.

Are you currently using a workaround to solve this problem? (If yes, please explain) (1-2 sentences)

The only workaround is not to utilize the Moderate Words feature

What would be your ideal solution to this problem? How would it work or function? (1-2 sentences)

This tool should moderate based on the entire word string, not a partial text match.

4 replies

Shawna James
  • Community Manager
  • December 11, 2023
Hey Rex, thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. This has been logged for our PM team to review. For others who may be interested in this feature request, please add your support by upvoting this post and/or adding your use case to the comments below. Thank you again!

Tim83
  • July 7, 2025

This continues to be a frustrating thing and I agree with the OP that moderating a word like "assurance" if you have "ass" in the moderation word list etc. makes this feature worthless.  I had several posts that we missed that got moderated for legitimate words that Zendesk flagged as a moderated word.  This should be an exact match text moderation, not a partial match text moderation!  Seems like a very simple change Zendesk could make to improve this feature and make it worth using.


Rex11
  • Author
  • July 8, 2025

@tim83  - Zendesk is extremely slow to do any work related to their Forums tools, as you'll see I left this feedback in 2023 ;)


Olá pessoal, realmente precisávamos de uma melhoria nessa página, pois fica inviável fazer moderação, sendo que é feito através de letra, e não palavra completa.