pre-moderation

English

Alternative forms

• premoderation

Etymology

From pre- +‎ moderation.

Noun

pre-moderation (uncountable)

1. (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.