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English
Etymology
From auto- + moderator.
Pronunciation
Noun
automoderator (plural automoderators)
- (computing) A bot that automatically moderates (a discussion forum, etc.).
1997, Andrew Leonard, Bots: The Origin of New Species, San Francisco, Calif.: HardWired, →ISBN, page 175:Purely utilitarian considerations determined whether Usenet’s equivalent to IRC’s channel protection bots – the robo-moderators and automoderators and modbots – succeeded or failed.
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: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.