Dictionary

pre-moderation en · NOUN

Etymology

From pre- + moderation.

Meanings

1. (Internet, 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 visible to the page owner and that user and their friends. 2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian:

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post-moderation