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title: Moderation
description: What the pre-live gate checks, what blocks a deploy, and what happens to live apps.
---

Outer shares one domain between the platform and every app, so a bad app can
hurt everyone. Moderation has two layers: a gate before anything goes live,
and checks on what live apps render.

## The pre-live gate

Every deploy passes the gate before it can serve anything. It reads what
visitors can read: JSX text, string literals and template parts in
`ts`/`tsx`/`js`/`jsx`/`mjs` files (imports, URLs, CSS classes, comments and
identifiers are skipped), `.html`/`.md`/`.txt` files, JSON strings under
`public/`, SVG text, SQL string literals in migrations and seeds, the
prerendered `dist/` HTML, and the slug plus app name.

- Strong profanity, slurs, masked spellings and leetspeak, and the most severe content **block** the deploy. Mild words ("damn", "hell", "crap") pass.
- A blocked deploy keeps the commit on `main` and the previous version keeps serving. `commit` returns `blocked` with the file, the line and an excerpt — fix those lines and commit again.
- Only new text is checked; text cleared before is skipped.
- Over the review caps (3000 files, 256 KiB each, 8 MiB total) the deploy is blocked as `too_large_to_review`.
- When the classifier is unavailable, the deploy fails closed: nothing goes live and the previous version keeps serving.

## After going live

Rendered pages — including D1 rows and fetched text — are crawled after
every deploy. Strong profanity on a rendered page **holds** the app (it
serves a "being fixed" page until a clean deploy or a review); phishing and
severe content **suspend** it. Run all visitor-written text through the
template's `moderate()` helper before storing it. Uploaded files are not
classified — that is why uploads are Pro-only.

## Appeals

There is no self-serve override during the closed beta: a human appeal goes
to the platform owner for review. Relay any `user_message` verbatim instead
of inventing a workaround. Full detail: [Moderation guide](/guides/moderation).