Today we are happy to announce the release of one of our most requested product features, comment moderation, to the Social Data Platform. The Socrata Social Data Platform enables government organizations to disseminate data online, enabling citizens to filter, sort, and comment on data all within a web browser.

Since inception, Socrata has offered community-based comment moderation, but today’s release offers new functionality for data publishers who want more control. Now content managers can manage inappropriate, off-topic, and spam comments in an approval system — much like popular blog platforms — before the comments are ever seen by the public. This feature is especially important for government agencies who may be posting politically-charged data.

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