Moderating content in an online forum

摘要

Users of social networking system are provided with user interface elements permitting the user to post comments on pages within the social networking system. Pages may be provided for any non-user entity, including for example, pages for businesses, products, concepts, etc. Embodiments provided herein permit page moderators to ban certain content from being displayed on a page. For example, the social networking system may receive a list of proscribed content and block comments containing the proscribed content by reducing the distribution of those comments to other viewing users. However, the social networking system may display the blocked content to the commenting user such that the commenting user is not made aware that his or her comment was blocked, thereby providing fewer incentives to the commenting user to spam the page or attempt to circumvent the social networking system filters.

主权项

1. A method for moderating content on a page within a social networking system, comprising:
receiving instructions from a page moderator to filter proscribed content posted by users on a page of a social networking system; receiving a comment from a user of the social networking system, the comment posted on the page within the social networking system; determining, by a processor, that the comment includes proscribed content; and responsive to the determination, displaying the page including the comment to the user, and displaying the page not including the comment to all other users of the social networking system accessing the page.