automoderator

plural automoderators

1. computingA bot that automatically moderates (a discussion forum, etc.).

   These codes determine which newsgroups the automoderator places your message in.

   1999, Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm, Genealogy Online For Dummies®, 2nd edition, Foster City, Calif.: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., →ISBN, page 56

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   Purely utilitarian considerations determined whether Usenet’s equivalent to IRC’s channel protection bots – the robo-moderators and automoderators and modbots – succeeded or failed.

   1997, Andrew Leonard, Bots: The Origin of New Species, San Francisco, Calif.: HardWired, →ISBN, page 175

   Digital agents, 10% of the references, were non-human agents, typically a bot, that undermined/challenged the work of the conspiracy theorists and/or the conspiracy theory itself. The discussion about non-human agents appeared mostly in the Reddit dataset. This conversation referred to automoderators or bots designed to automate various moderation tasks for which no human judgment is needed – such as deleting comments – and whose decisions can be overridden by human mods.

   2022, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, “‘Go ahead and “debunk” truth by calling it a conspiracy theory’: The discursive construction of conspiracy theoryness in online affinity spaces”, in Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi, Angela Zottola, editors, Conspiracy Theory Discourses (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture; 98), Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 92