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How to use the comment cleaner?

Protect your brand’s reputation by filtering and removing toxic or suspicious comments across all major social platforms.

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Written by Ron Storfer
Updated over 4 months ago

What Is the Comment Cleaner?

The Comment Cleaner is an AI-powered feature built to help you detect, categorize, and moderate harmful or unwanted comments from your social media accounts—all from one unified dashboard.

Once you connect your accounts to Spikerz, comment protection begins instantly. The system scans incoming comments based on your preferences and lets you take quick actions like delete, mark as resolved, block the user, or translate.

This gives your team control, clarity, and security—while preventing scams, impersonation, and hate speech from spreading under your content..

Platform

Supported Actions

Scan Frequency

Instagram

Hide & Delete

Real-time

Facebook Pages

Hide & Delete

Real-time

TikTok

Hide

Real-time

YouTube

Hide

Every 1.5 hours

X (Twitter)

Hide

Every 1.5 hours

LinkedIn Pages

Delete

Every 1.5 hours

How It Works

AI-Powered Detection

Spikerz uses an AI algorithm that learns from your moderation behavior. The more you mark comments as removable or not, the more accurate your flagging becomes.

** The system adapts to your tone, audience, and brand sensitivity - minimizing false positives and focusing on threats that matter.

How Comments Are Displayed

Spikerz displays comments in a list, one after another, sorted from newest to oldest.

Managing Comments

How to Remove Comments

  • To permanently delete a comment, tap the Trash icon next to it. This action can’t be undone.

How to Hide Comments

  • Some platforms include a Hide option; in Spikerz, you can hide a comment by tapping the eye-with-a-slash icon.

  • Spikerz also lets you Unhide comments by tapping the eye icon.

How to Use “Mark as Resolved”

  • If you have alerts that require no further action, use the Mark as Resolved button to archive them.

  • You can also unresolve these alerts later if you change your mind.

How to Report Less of a Comment Type

If you see comments that are being flagged unnecessarily - Tap "Feedback".


This teaches the system to deprioritize that style or topic in future alerts.

How to Translate Comments

Tap the "Translate" button on any comment.
Spikerz will convert the entire comment to English using built-in translation so you can review and moderate confidently—even across global pages.

How to Search Comments

Use the search bar inside the Comment Cleaner dashboard to look up specific words, usernames, or phrases.
This helps you:

  • Find threats

  • Spot trends

  • Track specific trolls or impersonators

Block User from Commenting

To stop a user from commenting on your page:

  • Tap the "..." near the buttons below the comment

  • Select "Block User"

  • If the category is covered by an auto-deletion rule, future comments from that user will be removed automatically.

⚠️ Make sure Auto-Delete is active for that category so blocked users are filtered consistently.

Comments by Impersonators

Spikerz’s detection engine identifies comments made by impersonators—fake accounts pretending to be your brand, staff, or partners.
These comments are flagged as a special risk category.

Comment Alert Distribution

Switch views with the tabs (each shows a live count):

  • All comments - every scanned comment

  • Needs review - items awaiting triage

  • Alerts - flagged by rules (phishing, scam, hate, spam, custom keywords)

  • Hidden - comments you’ve hidden

  • Replied - comments you’ve replied to

  • Resolved - completed/closed items

How to reply a comment from the UI

  • To reply to a comment, tap the Reply button.

  • This opens the right-side section, where you can write and send your reply directly from the Spikerz system.

  • If you’ve replied and want to delete it, open the "…" and tap Delete.

Assigning a user to a comment

How to assign

  • Open the comment and tap Assign on the comment card.

  • Choose the teammate you want to assign.

Reassigning

  • You can change the assignee anytime—tap Assign again and select a different user.

Auto-assignment

  • If someone takes an action on an unassigned comment (e.g., replies, hides, marks), the comment is automatically assigned to that user.

Checking a comment’s sentiment

Each comment is labeled with one of three sentiments:

  • Positive — contains supportive or favorable language.

  • Neutral — doesn’t include clear positive or negative cues.

  • Negative — contains critical or unfavorable language.

You can change the sentiment at any time—select the sentiment badge/button on the comment and choose a new value.

Filtering comments

Use the filters to quickly narrow down comments:

  • Status – Filter by comment status.

  • Alert type – Filter by alert category (spam, hate, scam, custom keywords).

  • Assignee – Show comments assigned to a specific teammate.

  • Sentiment – Filter by sentiment (positive, negative, neutral).

  • AI Topic – Filter by any AI topic you’ve configured.

  • Post date – Show comments on posts created within a date range.

  • Commenter name – Find comments from a specific commenter.

  • Commenter type – Filter by commenter status (blocked vs. regular).

  • Language – Filter by the comment’s language.

You can combine multiple filters to refine results further.

Summary of Key Actions

Action

Purpose

Delete All Comments

Quickly remove all flagged comments in an alert group

Mark as Resolved

Log but don’t delete, so similar alerts still show up

Show Less Alerts Like This

Train the system not to flag similar comments

Translate

Translate foreign-language comments to English

Search

Search for keywords inside comment history

Block User

Prevent flagged users from commenting again

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