Forums & Communities

Forum Moderation API

Keep forum threads productive without burning out volunteer moderators.

Automated decisions, soft-hide flows, and clear audit trails.

What it detects

  • • Hate speech
  • • Off-topic spam
  • • Harassment
  • • Scam links
  • • NSFW media in posts
  • • Custom rules

Why developers choose Vettly

  • • Soft-hide via the review action
  • • Per-category thresholds tuned for community norms
  • • Decision history visible to mods
  • • Integrates with any forum stack
Example request
bash
curl -X POST https://api.vettly.dev/v1/check \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"content": "You are terrible.", "contentType": "text"}'
Example response
json
{
  "flagged": true,
  "action": "block",
  "categories": {
    "harassment": 0.93,
    "hate": 0.02
  },
  "policy": "default",
  "latency_ms": 142
}

Compared to keyword filters

AI category scores reduce false positives and catch novel phrasing that wordlists miss.

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