pre-moderation
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom pre- + moderation.
Noun
edit- (journalism, Internet) The practice of moderating comments before they appear online, with the goal of preventing the publication of offensive or dangerous material.
- Antonym: post-moderation
- 2010 September 8, Milo Yiannopoulos, “Moshi Monsters is leading the way on child safety”, in The Telegraph[1]:
- "We can't completely lock down creativity," says founder Michael Acton Smith, "But nor can we allow the Wild West. So we use tools like software filtering, pre-moderation and post-moderation and we track every communication on the site."
- 2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.