robomoderation

English

Etymology

From robo- +‎ moderation.

Noun

robomoderation (uncountable)

1. (computing) Robotic moderation (of a discussion forum, etc.).
   • 1994 June 28, Eugene N. Miya, “RFD ba.jobs.offered.nontech - or some such thing”, in ba.jobs.misc‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     The m.j.* proposal will involve a consensus arrived Robomoderation scheme based on a computer somewhere which will egrep headers and articles.

   • 1994 July 12, Joel Plutchak, “RFD: misc.jobs reorganization”, in misc.jobs.misc‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     I support robomoderation. The number one reason is to enforce a Followup-To line to the appropriate place. […] I would suggest a set of suggested guidelines for Subject/Keyword content (e.g. at least state/country), with enforcement by benign robomoderation.

   • 1996 March 25, StarOwl, “moderation of alt.pagan”, in alt.pagan‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     In the days before robomoderation, in the times before spam, in the era long-gone that preceeded^[sic] the never-ending September, and back before poor propogation was a net.wide problem, many of us developed a bad taste for moderated groups.

   • 2021 May 13, Tristan Miller, “Big-8 Management Board finances”, in news.groups‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     We use donations primarily to pay our web/news hosting bills, and secondarily to cover expenses associated with the Board's outreach activities (e.g., attendance at technical conferences where we speak about the Board's work) and to help fund maintenance and development of STUMP and WebSTUMP, the GNU packages for newsgroup robomoderation.

Related terms

• robomoderate
• robomoderator

See also

• automoderation