Facebook launches new features for group moderation

Facebook has launched a new set of feature for group admin to control discussion in groups. Facebook groups has become quite an popular aspect of Facebook family and Facebook is keep on looking for ways to increase its effectiveness,  inline with this Facebook has launches new features for group moderation.

As you can see in these screenshots, posted by social media expert Matt Navarra, the new ‘Slow Down Comments’ option is listed in the post options menu for group admins.

“If you’re a group admin or moderator, you can slow down comments on a specific post in your group. When comments are slowed down for a post, each person can only post one comment every five minutes.”  source    

One goal of the new public groups experience is to make it easier for people on the social network to discover, join and participate in those groups.Users can join public groups without admin approval and, if allowed via admin controls, people can participate in discussions as visitors without joining the group.

Facebook said last October that it was testing Related Discussions in News Feed in cases where someone posted a link or reshared a post from that group, as well as displaying posts from public groups related to users’ interests in the groups tab.

The social network added a Participant Approval feature, which enables admins to determine who can post and comment in the group.They can review first-time contributors, asking them questions to support the process.

Main point of  new Facebook control feature are as follows.