pre-moderation
pre-moderation noun: the practice of moderating comments before they appear online, with the goal of preventing the publication of offensive or dangerous material.
Noun
pre-moderation (uncountable)
- The practice of moderating comments before they appear online, with the goal of preventing the publication of offensive or dangerous material.
- "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."2010 September 8, Milo Yiannopoulos, “Moshi Monsters is leading the way on child safety”, in The Telegraph
- 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...2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian
- Antonyms:
- post-moderation
Antonyms of pre-moderation
Forms of pre-moderation
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Origin of pre-moderation
From pre- + moderation.
Questions about pre-moderation
- What does pre-moderation mean?
- Pre-moderation means the practice of moderating comments before they appear online, with the goal of preventing the publication of offensive or dangerous material.
- What part of speech is pre-moderation?
- Pre-moderation is a noun.
Words near pre-moderation in the dictionary
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