Make AutoMod Blacklist only
AutoMod is intended to catch viewers' negative behaviors before they become disruptive to chat. However, it winds up being more interruptive to chat than what it would mitigate, because it's frequently catching messages that aren't problematic.
I discovered that in channels with smart detection on, sending a message with ONLY the beetle emoji and no other text, emotes, or emoji whatsoever gets the message automatically removed. Having been a hollow knight stream, more chatters wanted to follow suit and also post the beetle emoiji - only to get their messages AutoMod restricted as well (this happened over a month ago and this issue is still not fixed).
Additionally, the streamer isn't even allowed to whitelist certain phrases that aren't that bad with human context, like when I once tried to say "I hate the french language." AutoMod not only restricted it (because it included the phrase "I hate the french") but randomly added a ton of white space between "french" and "language" (which, mind you, didn't exist before AutoMod stepped in) and then refused to allow anyone to permit it despite context being "this guy doesn't like french as a language."
In a VAST number of other cases, mods or streamers have to allow common jokes, like "ligma balls" when they've certainly heard these jokes repeatedly before. I almost universally stay in 18+ streams, why is this even a problem? Why do they have to allow this joke that they themselves have told before, sometimes literally in the same stream?
I can count on my fingers the number of times I have seen or heard about AutoMod detecting ACTUAL hate speech, or other bannable offensive content. On the other hand, I can't count on my fingers how many times I've had perfectly normal messages AutoMod restricted. This feature is a failure, and it needs to be blacklist-oriented for it to not be just be the laughing stock it is when the so-called smart detection wants to ban the message: 🪲