Automoderator

Purely utilitarian considerations determined whether Usenet’s equivalent to IRC’s channel protection bots – the robo-moderators and automoderators and modbots – succeeded or failed.

These codes determine which newsgroups the automoderator places your message in.

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.