Infrastructure

Guilhem noted that Discourse's Watched Words feature might also be hooked into somehow to implement the approval of posts:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-reference-guide/241735

Here is one plugin that messes with watched words:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-watched-word-exceptions

Another comment from Guilhem:

for the asn databases, we already have some logic in place to keep it up to date (atm it's only used by matomo but it's generic and could be applied elsewhere). I assume there is a ruby api to query that db, otherwise we could let the httpd do the lookups and stamp the requests before passing them along to rails