Patent ID: 8140528

Claim:
A method of managing discourse in a virtual community, the method comprising: receiving a message from a virtual community user, the message being addressed to one or more recipient users of the virtual community; examining the message to identify any of a plurality of key expressions stored in a forbidden content database associated with virtual community forbidden communications; editing the message in response to identifying a forbidden key expression of the plurality of key expressions; determining a corrective prompt drawn from a plurality of corrective prompts stored in a corrective content database based on the forbidden key expression, wherein the corrective prompt comprises one or more allowed alternative word expressions to the forbidden key expression for future use by the virtual community user in place of the forbidden key expression, and wherein other corrective prompts of the plurality of corrective prompts stored in the corrective content database correspond to other forbidden key expressions stored in the forbidden content database; and issuing the corrective prompt to the virtual community user for managing discourse in the virtual community.