Meaning of pre-moderation | Babel Free

Definitions

The practice of moderating comments before they appear online, with the goal of preventing the publication of offensive or dangerous material.

Internet, uncountable

Examples

“"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."”

“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.”

CEFR level