You can't out-rule a model with more rules

Hot take: the people still maintaining giant rule lists to decide who sees what are bringing a spreadsheet to a machine-learning fight.
For years the smart comparison was "which rule set is tightest." That era is closing. Moderation is increasingly probabilistic — it doesn't match a signature, it scores a vibe across a hundred weak signals. A bigger rulebook just gives a model more surface area to learn your hand.
The uncomfortable read: the entire deterministic toolkit this niche was built on is depreciating, and most operators are doubling down on it because it's the only thing they know how to tune.
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