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We're excited to announce a new feature for burn organizers: automatic content moderation. Dust can now scan camps, art, and events for potentially problematic content, helping you maintain a safe and welcoming environment for your community.

Why Moderation?​

As your burn grows, manually reviewing every camp description, art piece, and event submission becomes increasingly difficult. With moderation enabled, Dust automatically scans content as it's submitted or changed, flagging anything that might need your attention.

What Gets Scanned?​

Moderation reviews text content across:

• Theme Camps - Names and descriptions
• Art - Names and descriptions
• Events - Titles and descriptions

Moderation Styles​

You have full control over how moderation works for your burn. Choose from three options:

• No moderation - Content is not scanned. You manually review everything.
• Flag - Problematic content is flagged for your review, but remains visible in the dust app.
• Flag and Hide - Problematic content is automatically hidden until you review it.

The "Flag" option is great if you want visibility into potential issues without censoring any content. "Flag and Hide" provides more protection by keeping questionable content out of the app until you've approved it.

Automatic Publishing​

If you choose the Flag and Hide then content that is not flagged will be published automatically (done every 24 hours). Any content that is flagged will be hidden from the dust app. Additionally if you unapprove a camp or art piece it will also be hidden when published.

What Does It Detect?​

Dust uses AI-powered moderation designed to detect:

• Sexual content
• Hate speech
• Harassment
• Self-harm content
• Graphic violence
• Threats and hostile language

Getting Started​

1. Go to Settings in your burn
2. Find the Moderation option
3. Choose your preferred moderation style
4. Click Publish

That's it! From then on, all new and updated content will be automatically scanned. Any flagged content will also trigger an email to admins.

Review Flagged Content​

When content is flagged, you'll see it marked in the Camps, Art, or Events list. You can then review the content and decide whether to edit it, or remove it. After saving a change to flagged content you will get a popup notifying you if the content is still flagged or not.

For more details, check out the Moderation documentation.

We hope this feature helps you build a safer, more inclusive burn. As always, let us know what you think!

We've made significant improvements to how you import data into Dust. Whether you're bringing in theme camp and art data from spreadsheets or syncing locations from Google Maps, the new import tools give you better visibility and control.

CSV Import Preview​

The CSV import for theme camps and art now shows a detailed preview before you commit to changes. Items are grouped into three categories:

• New: Items that will be created
• Updated: Existing items with changed fields (shows exactly which fields changed)
• Existing: Items with no changes

This makes it easy to verify your import before applying it, and helps catch issues like duplicate entries or unexpected changes.

KML Import Preview​

The KML import has been completely redesigned with a comprehensive preview system. When you import a KML file from Google Maps, you'll see:

• Location Changes: Camps or art with updated coordinates
• No Changes: Items where coordinates already matching what is in dust
• New or Mismatching Items: Placemarks that don't match existing records (eg Theme Camps that are not in dust yet, or whose names don't quite match)
• Items Not in File: Existing camps/art that are missing from the KML file
• Restrooms and Other Placemarks: Special pins like restrooms and shuttle stops

The preview helps you identify naming mismatches between Google Maps and Dust, so you can fix them before importing.

Better Error Handling​

Both import tools now provide clear error messages when something goes wrong:

• File validation errors (empty files, invalid format)
• Coordinate parsing issues

You'll know exactly what needs to be fixed before you can proceed.

Smart Matching​

The import system uses intelligent matching to connect your data:

• External IDs: Match by unique identifier for reliable updates
• Name matching: Case-insensitive with fuzzy matching for minor variations
• Handles variations: Ignores "Camp" prefixes, emojis, and special characters

Getting Started​

Import options are available from the menu on the Camps and Art pages. For detailed instructions, check out the Art, Camps or Google Maps Import documentation.

We hope these improvements make managing your burn's data easier. Let us know what you think!