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Automoderator Prototyping Exercise

Contents of Operations

Rationale of the Automoderator

The rationale for an auto-moderator, is that, properly configured, the automoderation process would be able to allow the overwhelming majority of uncontentious annotations to pass immediately onto the annotation database without having to await the attention of a human moderator. They would therefore be available for immediate public viewing. The aim of such an auto-moderator would be diametrically opposite to the way manual moderation systems operate.

With manual moderation, a major drawback is that the overwhelming majority of annotations, in a small community of users possibly over 95%, may have to wait days before becoming available, despite their complete acceptability. The purpose of the auto-moderator extension would be to achieve a fitting compromise that permitted immediate viewability of appropriate annotations. It would also, meanwhile, withhold for human judgement any annotation that, on testing, appears to satisfy a set of criteria which identifies the elements of language or author provenance which are deemed to constitute a threat to the system operator's acceptable use policy, for example, the use of abusive or obscene language, as a simple example.

Moderator Operations

This aspect of the design concentrates on the functionality available to a Moderator tasked with the duty of judging the acceptability of annotations whether passed or barred by the automoderation process. Either way the Moderator will decide on their future. The protoyping exercise investigates the operations undertaken by the Moderator.

Overview: Contents of Operations

User Screen Protyping

An interactive version of user screens has been devised to provide an idea of what a Moderator dealing with automoderated annotations would be likely to see and use. This prototyping exercise provides a list of the most common operations and views which are linked to explanations of the operations. From there one can navigate to views of the screens themselves.