Moderation that reads every comment before anyone else does
Doorman screens comments, reviews and posts for promotion, link spam, harassment, hate and threats. It publishes the genuine ones, holds the borderline ones for a moderator, and keeps honest criticism up.
Free for 1,000 checks a month. Paid plans from $12. No card required.
Example: Doorman screening comments and reviews, each judged in under half a second and delivered or kept out with the reason.
Sound familiar?
Spam buries the real conversation
Link drops, follower sellers and “check out my channel” posts push genuine comments down the page.
Abuse drives your best people away
It only takes a few hostile comments for regulars to stop posting, and moderators burn out cleaning up.
Keyword filters punish honest criticism
A blunt negative review isn't abuse. Doorman keeps it up and drops the threat next to it.
Check before you publish
- In your comment handler: call /v1/check with kind comment before a post goes live.
- Three outcomes: deliver → publish. hold → moderation queue. drop → never published, still visible to you with the reason.
- Criticism stays up: disagreement, complaints and negative reviews are genuine. Promotion and abuse aren't.
- Any language: Doorman judges meaning, not keywords. Start in watch mode if most of your community isn't writing in English.
const r = await doorman.check({
kind: "comment",
context: "Comments under posts on a developer blog",
name: comment.author,
message: comment.body,
});
if (r.action === "deliver") await publish(comment);
else if (r.action === "hold") await queueForModerator(comment, r.evidence);
// drop: not published; it's still in your Doorman inbox with the reasonChecked, not guessed
Every decision comes from Doorman's models reading the submission, in milliseconds, with the reason attached.
A small hand-labelled set of 25 comments and sign-ups, judged live. Small sets show the checks work; start in watch mode on your own community to see its calls before enforcing. Questions were not tuned to the set.
Questions
Does it moderate images or links?
It reads text: the comment, the author name and any fields you send, including the links in them. It doesn't look at images.
Will it remove negative reviews?
No. A complaint or a one-star review is a genuine review. Doorman drops promotion, spam, harassment, hate and threats.
Can moderators overrule it?
Yes. Every dropped or held item is in your inbox with the reason; one click delivers it, and you can label mistakes through the API.
How much does it cost?
Free for 1,000 checks a month. Pro is $12 a month for 25,000 and Business is $49 a month for 250,000. Every plan gets the same models. See pricing.
Try it on your own comments
Free for your first 1,000 checks every month. Start in watch mode and see every call before you trust it.