robomoderator

English

Etymology

From robo- +‎ moderator.

Noun

robomoderator (plural robomoderators)

1. (computing) A robotic moderator (of a discussion forum, etc.).
   • 1994 May 3, Jeff Drummond, “the case against r.s.bb.m.”, in rec.sport.baseball‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     I wonder if r.s.bb.analysis could work as an unmoderated group? The name (and presence of r.s.bb) might deflect much of the chaff. Maybe it could be started up with a robomoderator (automatically accepts all submissions) with a real moderator substituted only if/when necessary.

   • 1994 August 1, Brad Appleton, “RFD: misc.jobs reorganiza”, in news.groups‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     All it has to do is check the presence of the necessary items by looking for the "Job-*" lines (or whatever its name happens to be), and rejecting the article if the required fields are not present, or if they have no accompanying text. Then the robomoderator could compose the subject line, not only with the min-info, but in a standard format as well.

   • 1996 July 5, Guy Macon, “Why do robomoderators avoid crossposting?”, in news.admin.net-abuse.misc‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     I have been advised that it is unwise for a robomoderator to approve a post that is crossposted to, say, three newsgroups, then post it to those three. […] Is it O.K. to have a robomoderator that rejects crossposts if the number of newsgroups is >3, but to crosspost to all newsgroups if <= 3?

Related terms

• robomoderate
• robomoderation

See also

• automoderator