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Comment Moderation PoliciesPlease share your comment moderation policies on this wiki. If you have any questions or comments about legal or process issues surrounding comment moderation, please share them in the comments section.
USA.gov and GobiernoUSA.gov Facebook Comment Policies
We monitor the USA.gov and GobiernoUSA.gov Facebook pages several times each day to look for comments that may be offensive enough to delete. By and large, user comments on Facebook are respectful.
To date (Aug 4 2009), we have been prompted on two occasions to report Facebook users and block them from posting further comments on our page due to spamming. We have never had multiple offensive or abusive comments from a single user on our pages.
USA.gov
We welcome your comments and hope that our conversations here will be courteous. You are fully responsible for the content of your comments.
We do not discriminate against any views, but we reserve the right to delete any of the following:
In short: be nice. If you have any questions or comments about this policy, please email us.
GobiernoUSA.gov
Agradecemos sus comentarios y pedimos que las conversaciones en esta página sean respetuosas. Eres completamente responsable por el contenido de tus comentarios.
No discriminamos en contra de cualquier punto de vista, pero nos reservamos el derecho de eliminar comentarios de la página si:
En pocas palabras, sé amable. Si tienes alguna pregunta o comentario sobre esta polÃtica, envÃanos un e-mail.
Gov Gab Blog Comment policy
Gov Gab comments are moderated before being approved. Gov Gab has multiple authors and each author is responsible for moderation of the comments on his or her posts.
We welcome your comments and expect that our conversation will follow the general rules of respectful civil discourse. This is a moderated blog, and we will only post comments from bloggers 13 years or older that relate to topics on Gov Gab: Your U.S. Government Blog. We will review comments for posting within one business day. You are fully responsible for everything that you submit in your comments, and all posted comments are in the public domain. We do not discriminate against any views, but we reserve the right not to post comments.
Comment Policy for EPA's Blog, GreenversationsComments are moderated before being approved. A central blog team reviews the comments; individual authors are encouraged to respond to comments, but aren't required to.
As of August 2009, Greenversations has received approximately 8000 comments. About 10 weren't approved because of vulgar or attack language, and another 200 weren't approved because they violated other aspects of the policy or were duplicates. The purpose of this blog is to discuss how various EPA employees approach their work, as a way of making what EPA does more open to the public. We encourage comments. Your ideas and concerns are important to ensure that a broad range of Americans are active and informed participants in how EPA’s work gets done. We want to publish your comments, but we expect conversations to follow the conventions of polite discourse. Therefore, we won’t post comments that:
We don’t edit comments to remove objectionable content, so please ensure that your comment contains none of the above. Reporters are asked to send questions to the EPA Newsroom through their normal channels and to refrain from submitting questions here as comments. Reporter questions will not be posted. We recognize that the Web is a 24/7 medium and your comments are welcome at any time. However, given the need to manage federal resources, moderating and posting of comments will generally occur during regular business hours Monday through Friday. Comments submitted after hours or on weekends will be read and posted as early as possible the next business day. To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, please do not include phone numbers or email addresses in the body of your comment. Please read the privacy discussion in Frequent Questions. Thank you for taking the time to read this comment policy. We encourage your participation in our discussion and look forward to an active exchange of ideas. If you have questions about the comment policy or how we apply it, please contact us. |
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Jed Sundwall said
at 12:21 pm on Aug 11, 2009
Who can tell me about 1st amendment rights surrounding comment moderation? My understanding is that deleting purely profane or malicious comments is probably legally defensible, but that we might run into trouble if we delete comments that include profanity AND useful feedback—e.g. "This program is ********—it's obviously been created to serve special interests. If we keep spending taxpayer money on ******** like this, we're all ******."
Facebook doesn't allow us to edit comments like this, and I'd be leery of deleting one.
John Able said
at 1:33 pm on Aug 11, 2009
I have the same concern as Jed Sundwall: Can a federal agency solicit comments, then accept some and reject others? Would this violate 1st Amedment rights?
Obviously, at first glance it seems to me, a non-lawyer, that this could constitute censorship. On the other hand, doesn't the FCC still regulate language and obscenity on publicly licensed airwaves? Would a server/website owned or operated by/for the government be given similar consideration? Isn't it (including the content) owned by the public?
Also, if someone has a post blocked, can't they easily post it somewhere else, say on one of the free blogging sites -- Blogger, Wordpress, etc? Doesn't this wide availability of free Internet options to publish anything allow the government to be selective within stated objective standards on its sites? How can I violate your 1st Amendment rights by blocking your comment if you can can, within minutues, just publish it on a Blogger site? I don't know, just wondering. . . . Is there an available legal opinion by the Justice Department on this issue? If not, perhaps there ought to be.
jeremyb said
at 11:17 am on Aug 12, 2009
Whenever we remove a vulgar comment we attempt to contact the person letting them know they are welcome to their opinion they just can't use profanity in doing so.
bryanwklein said
at 11:25 am on Aug 12, 2009
We have a similar policy for our Google Group... Although we do not moderate up front, we only remove after we have identified a violation of our Group Policies. The community knows that because we allow anything to be posted, that they may be exposed to objectionable material from time to time, but that we will remove it as soon as we become aware of it. We then monitor every post to ensure compliance. We have actually been accused of censorship, but because of our policies, and proof that we do not filter, we were able to reject the claims against us. I understand that all communities may not be able to apply this same approach, but it has worked well for us. Here is the URL to our Group Policy document. http://code.google.com/p/fds-smv/wiki/FDSSMV_Group_Policies and the URL to our Discussion Group http://groups.google.com/group/fds-smv
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