Pre-clean text before sending to Augmentoollkit?

[ergosumdre]

I recently scraped some forum data but did a poor job, resulting in messy text with elements like usernames, timestamps, quotes, and other irrelevant content. For example:

Re: Extended WarrantyQuote:Originally Posted byUSERNAME

These artifacts have made their way into the final output. Is this an issue with my model's performance, or should I pre-clean my text data before sending it to Augmentoolkit?

Or is there something else at play?