moderation

Moderation is the process of holding comments for review by a human, and sometimes a source of frustration when a comment is written on another site that the commenter has no control over, and thus a good reason to post a reply on your own site and POSSE it to that other site.

Why
If you allow anyone to comment on your site, you may want to moderate comments by default, especially from (previously) unknown authors, because such comments are known to attract abuse.

Moderation Status
Under the current webmention specification there is no indication for when a comment is held for modification.

In many systems, however, there is a response for human commenters that is visible, indicating that a comment has been accepted and is awaiting moderation by a human.

Screenshots
Wordpress:



moderation of services
An example of an unwanted comment is on the bottom of this post has been brought in via bridgy and webmention.herokuapp.com - it's not clear which of those services should be used to mark it as not for display. Just deleting it on one or other of them is likely not enough, as it could be brought back by sending the webmention again.

Moderation Criteria

 * Allow List
 * Deny List

Mediation
WNYC's On the Media has an interesting podcast segment on moderation and restorative justice: Can Restorative Justice Save The Internet? that has some interesting ideas as well as a case study involving moderation on Reddit.

Articles
Articles about moderation.
 * 2016-08-10 The Indieweb Frees Me From “Awaiting Moderation”

Intel Bleep UI

 * Intel Bleep AI for dialing up/down and filtering the levels of toxicity gamers want to experience / convey in voice chat: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22373290/intel-bleep-ai-powered-abuse-toxicity-gaming-filters
 * https://www.polygon.com/22374120/intel-bleep-voice-chat-hate-speech-censor-spirit-ai
 * (how not to build a UI for moderation) https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/04/08/intel-bleep-gaming-this-software-will-let-you-censor-the-n-word-and-other-offensive-speech-but-on-a-sliding-scale/?sh=5fff41766a4e
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20221111202633/http://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvgvk/intels-dystopian-anti-harassment-ai-lets-users-opt-in-for-some-racism