Open: cleared and shown
Material that clearly satisfies the written standard - appropriate Torah content, modest Jewish music in its correct category - is open: it appears in results with customer-safe details and can be played, saved, and (where separately licensed) downloaded.
Open is a positive ruling, not an absence of objection. Nothing is shown merely because no one flagged it; everything shown affirmatively cleared.
Hidden: doubt held for review
Material that is gray - ambiguous vocals, uncertain content, insufficient support for a confident ruling - is hidden. It does not appear with a warning; it does not appear at all. Where the material might genuinely belong, the interface offers a review request, and a human process takes it from there.
Hidden is the standard's humility. Rather than guess in either direction, doubt is held where it can do no harm, and the appeal path exists so legitimate material does not stay hidden forever.
Closed: the categories with no door
Hard-no categories - the material the standard exists to keep out - are closed: denied without appeal. No review request is offered because no review could change the answer. Some doors do not have handles, and pretending otherwise would cheapen every other promise the product makes.
Three verdicts, no fourth. Everything you experience in FilteredTube - the results, the empty states, the appeal button's presence or absence - is these three states expressing themselves honestly.
At a glance
Key takeaways
- Open means affirmatively cleared, never merely unflagged.
- Hidden is doubt held safely, with an appeal path where it may belong.
- Closed categories have no appeal - by design, not oversight.
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