Meta-moderation is a second level of comment moderation. A user is invited to rate a

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's decision. He is shown a post that was moderated up or down and marks whether the moderator acted fairly. This is used to improve the quality of moderation.

Slashdot ''Slashdot'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''/.'') is a social news website that originally advertised itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories concerning science, technology, and politics that are submitted and evalu ...

and

Kuro5hin Kuro5hin (K5; read "corrosion") was a collaborative discussion website founded by Rusty Foster in 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot. Articles were created and submitted by users and submitted to a queue for evaluation. Site members could v ...

are two websites with meta-moderation. The

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message boards used to have it.

References

Slashdot Metamoderation FAQ

Meatball: MedaModeration

Slash(dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space
Cliff Lampe, Paul Resnick Groupware Internet forum terminology Reputation management Content moderation {{Web-stub

See also

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