As you may know I've tried various ways to moderate the comments — literally….
Nor is it intended to include social networking sites, or sites that merely moderate the comments of others.
An assistant and I moderate the comments (which sometimes run into the hundreds for a single post), removing comments containing spam or obscenities.
We consider several factors when deciding which articles should be open to comment: news value of the story; whether we can moderate the comments in a timely way; and whether we have recently hosted comments about the issue explored in the article.
This makes it easier to moderate the comments – to either remove them or approve them with a click.
But prior to that, YouTube had also given creators the direct ability to designate specific people to moderate the comments on their own channels, which included the ability to remove public comments from creators' videos.
Using Websense's monitoring and analytics technology, Defensio offers the user a host of cloud-based configuration tools, allowing you to moderate the comments on your page, Facebook Wall, news stream, photos, and block the content you don't want.
Google's YouTube video service has long been a magnet for vicious comments left by anonymous viewers, so Google is now allowing some video uploaders to moderate the comments section on their videos using Google+ tools.
More importantly, whoever moderates the comments controls the commenters' data, and it's the data that's valuable to the business of every newspaper, advertiser and retailer on the planet.
