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Glossary

The words you will see in a drill and its report, in plain language.

Drill
One practice session: a wave of generated lines played into the practice chat.
Practice chat
The sandboxed chat your mods work in. It is never posted to Twitch.
Attack line
A generated scam, spam, bot or placeholder-hate line that mods should remove.
Banter line
A harmless line from a curated pool that mods should leave alone.
Tactic
A family of attacks: fake giveaway links, follower and viewer spam, art and promo bots, and placeholder hate-raid lines (off by default).
Trick
A change that helps an attack slip past filters, such as caps, number swaps, stretched letters, spaced letters, dotted letters or look-alike letters.
Caught
An attack line a mod acted on.
Slipped
An attack line no mod removed within the slip window (9 seconds by default). Banter never slips.
False ban
A mod action on a banter line.
Reaction time
How long a mod took to act on a line after it appeared.
Check AutoMod Status
The Twitch feature that says whether a message would be permitted by your channel’s current AutoMod settings and blocked terms. ModScrim uses it to grade your filters.
Graded by Twitch
The grade came from Twitch’s own Check AutoMod Status.
Local estimate
The grade came from ModScrim’s own matcher: always in demo rooms, and on a real channel when Twitch’s hourly limit is used up.
Blocked terms
The words and phrases your channel blocks on Twitch. ModScrim sees only your public terms.
AutoMod
Twitch’s automatic filter, with category levels. ModScrim reads these levels and never changes them.
Needs a bot rule
A trick no blocked term can express, such as spaced letters, dotted letters or look-alike letters.
Rule finder
The code that proposes up to six blocked terms from the attack lines that got past your filters.
Real-chat matches
How many of your recent real chat lines a proposed term would match. It must be zero before you can push.
Rejected term
A proposed term that catches attacks but would also match a real chat line, shown with that line as the example.
Fresh wave
A new wave of 30 attack lines built with tricks the rule finder never saw, used to prove the new terms. Also called the held-out wave.
Push
Adding the terms you approved to your channel’s blocked terms on Twitch. Nothing is pushed without your approval.
Undo
Removing every term a drill’s push added. Terms that already existed are left alone.
Kai (sim)
A simulated co-mod for rehearsing alone. Always labelled, and scored separately.
Join code
Six random digits that let a mod join the current drill.
Overlay
The viewer-safe page you add to OBS as a Browser source. It only receives redacted data.
Overlay key
The private 32-character key in the overlay URL. Rotate it if the URL leaks.
Reveal
After a drill, which lines were attacks and which tricks they used. Visible in the console and to mods, never on the overlay.
After-action report
The summary of one drill: scores, grades, rules, proof and pushes.
Report card
The numbers-only part of the report, safe for the overlay and share links.
Demo room
A temporary private room with a sample channel, so you can run the whole loop without a Twitch account.

Looking for engineering terms such as room, phase or engine? See the developer glossary.