Watch Your Mouth

'Watch Your Mouth' monitors the BBC's 'Have Your Say' website and detects when comments get censored.

The Have Your Say site has two moderation modes: full and reactive. In full mode, all comments are checked before being published. In reactive, all comments from registered users appear immediately and can be moderated later.

We can only detect comments that were removed. We cannot detect comments that never appeared in the first place. This would appear to limit us to reactive mode comments, but fully moderated comments are still often censored.