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server: seed statements only from moderators; comments no longer wait on the toxicity check - #3074

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Two observable changes, one commit each. No schema change.

1. Only a moderator can contribute a seed statement. POST /api/v3/comments approved any caller's statement on arrival when the request carried is_seed, so anyone, even without signing in, could skip strict moderation and have a statement shown to every participant. The seed flag now counts only for a moderator of the conversation. From anyone else it is ignored: the statement is stored with is_seed = false and moderated like any other (under strict moderation, hidden until approved). Moderators (owner, site moderators, admins) are unchanged, with or without the flag. The bulk upload route already required a moderator, and a control test pins it.

2. Comments no longer wait on the toxicity check. Every non-moderator comment first made two uncached identity-provider management API calls to see whether the conversation's owner had the plan that enables a toxicity check. For those owners, it then sent the statement to an external language model, and only then saved it. None of those calls had a time limit, so a slow provider held the participant's statement unsaved. The check is now off: a statement is saved with the conversation's own moderation setting and no outside call. The profanity filter ran inside the same check (and only ever for those plan owners), so it is off with it. The functions stay in place, unused. GET /comments?moderation=true&mod_gt=… still consults the plan check and is unchanged here.

Tests.

  • New comment-seed-moderator-only.test.ts (6): a participant's flagged statement is stored pending, is_seed false, and is not served to other participants; it behaves the same as without the flag; moderator seeds are still approved; the bulk route refuses participants.
  • New comment-toxicity-check-off.test.ts (3): no identity-provider management call and no language-model call on a comment, even when the stubbed model would have rejected it.
  • commentModerationLocation.test.ts adapted: it asserted that the language-model prompt was sent from the handler.
  • Locally, all unit suites plus 24 comment and participation-path integration suites pass. Four suites fail for want of the DynamoDB/SES emulators; they fail identically on unchanged code. tsc --noEmit and prettier are clean; eslint has 0 errors. The vote-sign lint reports 0 new sites.

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colinmegill and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 22:28
POST /api/v3/comments approved any caller's statement on arrival when the
request carried is_seed, so anyone, even without signing in, could skip
strict moderation and have a statement shown to every participant. The seed
flag now counts only for a moderator of the conversation; from anyone else
it is ignored, the statement is stored as an ordinary one and moderated like
any other. Moderators are unchanged, with or without the flag. The bulk
upload route already required a moderator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018NVGBuYCk4EZmiz4csUv9s
Every comment from a non-moderator first asked the identity provider, with
two uncached management API calls, whether the conversation's owner had the
plan that enables a toxicity check, and for those owners it then sent the
statement to an external language model before saving it. Those calls had no
time limit, so a slow provider held the citizen's statement unsaved. The
check is off: a statement is saved with the conversation's own moderation
setting and no outside call. The functions stay in place, unused.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018NVGBuYCk4EZmiz4csUv9s
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colinmegill merged commit 435444a into edge Oct 16, 2026
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