Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pre-moderation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables: pre--mod-er-a-tion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

""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."

Etymology

From pre- + moderation.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

premoderation (alternative)

Antonyms

post-moderation

Questions

What does pre-moderation mean?: The practice of moderating comments before they appear online, with the goal of preventing the publication of offensive or dangerous material.
Where does pre-moderation come from?: From pre- + moderation.

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