Did you know that there’s a way for you to proactively moderate your brand’s Facebook page…before posts are even written by your audience? If you’re on admin-level for your brand’s page, you are able to make some simple changes that will not allow certain words to be posted on your page. For faith-based brands, this is also helpful in addition to the profanity-blocker (you can see how to block profanity here).
To create a list of blocked words, you can click here for step-by-step instructions from Facebook’s site. Here are some tips to help you utilize this feature:
–Protect your audience: If you cater to families, this tool is a great idea because it prevents questionable posts from being posted directly to your wall. While the profanity filter filters out traditional curse words, the moderation tool can also filter out additional words that would be questionable for your specific audience. You also have the ability to add words that may be more recent than the ones filtered out by the profanity filter (for example, if you notice new slang words being used by younger members of the community that are inappropriate).
–Prevent bullying: On some Facebook pages, there are spammers or members who target other members of the online community with hurtful or offensive words. You can add these types of words to the moderation tool to prevent their comments from appearing. Please note that although the moderator hides the comment from your community group or page, it does not hide it from the commenter’s friends and their personal page.
-Filter out irrelevant discussions: If you notice topics being brought up on the community page that are not related to your brand or company, you can add those words to the “blacklist” to help narrow things down. Obviously, you don’t want to be too heavy-handed in this area, as it can stifle productive discussions, but it can be a useful tool for more general topics.
There are several “blacklist” versions on the internet currently which are helpful to cut and paste, but many of the words are offensive, and even reading through such a list can be a headache!
We have done the work for you, by carefully curating a list that is more applicable for faith-based brands. You may still want to weed through the list to make it more specific to your needs. By utilizing this simple step of cutting-and-pasting a blacklist, you can help nourish a stronger online community on your Facebook page.
Download our free list of FrontGate’s Christian-friendly list of Terms-to-Block in a CSV file that can be opened in any text or spreadsheet program.
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Thanks, it’s a great list. Could you add religious plus political words that should be blacklisted.
For our purposes, we didn’t rule out most words that would be considered faith or political words, as our clients work in those spaces. Our goal was to create a universal list of absolute garbage words, and then let people add their own words based on their own unique situations. Faith and political words can be very subjective, depending on who you are talking to… 🙂
Thanks Scott, good info.
Pretty good information and great list, thanks.
Glad you found this useful Leonardo! 🙂
Thanks for the list Scott. I used this in my Google Apps Domain as objectionable words. Now anytime that a student sends an email with one of these words it gets flagged and delivered with a header indicating that a copy of this email was sent to the Technology Admin for review.
That’s awesome Ryan. That’s for sharing how you used it. I’m sure other folks could do the same!
This is great – but why are m*nstruate (censored because I assume you’ll be applying the filter to this page too!) and associated terms “absolute garbage words”? Although, in most cases, it would be unlikely that someone would post about this on a community page, it is a perfectly polite and legitimate term for a natural process experienced regularly by half of the world’s population. To infer otherwise is only perpetuating the myth that periods are somehow shameful – a particularly nasty form of misogyny, no matter how much it’s wrapped up under the shroud of religious tradition.
Thanks for your comment Alyson. Anyone using the list should customize for their situation. While a children’s site might never see an appropriate context on their site for using your example word, other sites might have no problem. That would be true for lots of words on the list.
Great List Scott! Thanks for sharing! Gonna write a blog on this and definitely give you some back link love. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Greg. Always appreciated! 🙂
Thank you Scott. 🙂
You are very welcome Roger! 🙂
I just downloaded the list of 723 words to blacklist and saved me a lot of time, and an overly extended effort.
Happy we could help, Nathan!
Its a long list to customize as per our needs, but atleast I was able to get hold of a list, atlast!
Thanks.
Sad that it has to be so long for sure, but happy to have helped!
Why doesn’t your filter include words with asterisks? Websites like Esquire use these tricks on their Facebook posts to get through web filters.
Great suggestion. We’ll include that in our next update.
You guys are legit!!
Saved me having to poll the company for a list (which could’ve ended disastrously! 😛
No doubt!
thanks man, Scott you just saved me
what about these (“)? and can we use it for instagram too??
Try on Instagram and let us know here. 🙂
thx
Thanks Scott itz very helpful 🙂
Thanks!
Thank you for this list. Greatly appreciated.
Happy to help. 🙂
Hello, the list is no longer available, can you fix that
Used to block bad words in chats on youtube live for our live high school event class. Thanks!
Excellent! 🙂
It helped me a lot for my new App. Great Job!!!
I have been searching for something like this for months!
Thank you so much…
Thank you very much for the info and the list, it really helped us.
Have a nice day!
Glad it helped!
Thanks for the list. I just put it to use on my YouTube channel that I want to keep family friendly. This came in quite handy.
Thanks Leroy. 🙂
I found this useful. Since it’s probably not appropriate to block messages that contain just one mention of some of these words, I used this in an algorithm that checks for multiple mentions.
Thanks Chris. That’s a great way to use the list. 🙂
great list..its really help me alot…
This a great list! I was able to use this for more than 10 of my clients! Thank you
Used your list while updating our FB page. Thanks for the effort it took to put these nasties in one document.
Incredibly helpful! The cheat sheet to blocking fowl language. Thanks for this.
thanks for your info..
You are very welcome Belal!
Very grateful!!
THX Marnie!
Very useful for my discord server
Excellent! 🙂
Thanks Scott, just put this to work on our Church Facebook page and I’m super thankful for the resource you’ve prepared. Some of the words are pretty hilarious, and I don’t know what they all mean, but this saves us a tonne of hassle and I really appreciate it.
Happy to be of service! After I did all that work, I knew it could save others serious time. 🙂
super List. Thanks
Thank you, that is VERY helpful. God bless you. Paul
Our ICC Staff found this article useful. We blocked few of the keywords from our page. Thank you for this guide.
Thank you, worked so well for my Tupperware page!
Thanks a lot for this list of bad moderated words. It worked pretty well for my blog comment moderation techniques
I’m going to start a YouTube channel.
The topic I’ll be addressing, debunking flat Earth, will hopefully result in some lively discussions so I won’t be blocking all of these words.
The thought of constructing my own list of blocked words from scratch was daunting. Thank you for performing this distasteful service for us.
Thank you very much indeed!
GREAT Work. Helped
This is still relevant 5 years later. Thanks!
Glad you found it! 🙂
A big thanks from me too. I’ll be using this list and adding a few more variations for my company Yammer site.
I really like the list but I can’t seem to do anything with it as it says ‘please use a comma separated list’ which means that I can’t use the list as it has ” in it
You should open it in or import it into a spreadsheet program like Excel or Google Sheets to remove the CSV formatting. 🙂