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See blacklisted words better in Facebook Comment Moderation

When looking through Facebook Comments in the Admin/Moderator view, if a person uses a word on the blacklist (whether Facebook's or your own custom blacklist), Facebook will not approve the post and will highlight the offending word.

However, the highlighting is a pale yellow that can be very difficult to pick out when you are looking quickly through the comments.

I always like to know when a word is caught by the filter because sometimes the post should be approved anyway if the word was actually not bad in the context it was used. Also sometimes readers complain that their posts don't show up, so it's good to know if the language is the reason why.

Here is a custom style that will make the caught words much easier to see. It requires Firefox or Chrome.

Before:

Screenshot after the Userstyle

Notice the pale yellow background with a slightly darker, but still pretty hard to see, bottom border. It's very easy to miss when you're scrolling through lots of comments.

After:

Screenshot after the Userstyle
Ah! Much more noticeable!

Interested?

Click here to get the style from Userstyles.org.

If you are on Firefox you will need to install the Stylish add-on.

If you are on Chrome you can install it as a user script from the first link above.

Technical notes

Facebook wraps each blacklisted word in a span tag with the "highlight" class, so this just modifies that CSS class. :-)

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