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Content moderators review the dark side of the internet
- pessimizer 9y agoBuilding after building, filled with endless rows of workstations, manned by groggy censors forever reading notes between people they don't know, deleting some, changing a few words on more, getting paid half a penny per post reviewed.
- shrimp_emoji 9y agoDoubleplusgood
- coldacid 9y agoIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a nameless wage slave deleting posts — forever.
- elboru 9y agoI'm not saying that's cool, but there are millions of people with worst jobs, or simply dying of hunger
- dominotw 9y agoArticle says most of this work is done in countries like philippines. I wish they interviewed people from philippines not just people in america. I was more interested in their view of things.
- mc32 9y agoHere's one such article: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ I think either Vice or MoBo had one around the same time but can't find it.
- pmarreck 9y agoBoth the title here as well as the article itself have "the the" repeated. :O
- dominotw 9y agoIts repeated but its correct.
- interfixus 9y ago>Both the title here as well as the article itself have "the the" repeated That would spell "the the the the". You probably mean they have the "the" repeated :Q
- sctb 9y agoThanks! Fixed here.
- danjc 9y agoPeople are basically good, right?
- DoreenMichele 9y agoBowden said that her team consisted of the odd conglomeration of people that were drawn to overnight work looking at weird and disturbing stuff. “I had a witch, a vampire, a white supremacist, and some regular day-to-day people. I had all these different categories,” Bowden, who is black, said. “We were saying, ‘Based on your experience in white-supremacist land, is this white-supremacist material?’” That right there is an incredible vignette capturing the level of diplomacy and thick skin required to do this job well: A black woman asking a white supremacist employee to ID white supremacist content so they can create guidelines and get it off the internet.
- s73ver_ 9y agoCould you really trust the white supremacist to correctly ID the material, though?
- DoreenMichele 9y agoThat depends on a lot of factors. Some people are into porn. That doesn't mean they want porn everywhere all the time on all sites they frequent. This is why we use NSFW warnings on sites like HN: People here are not necessarily averse to viewing and discussing sexually explicit material, but they want to make sure they aren't fired for doing so if they are on their break at work while reading HN.
- dang 9y agoThat's an interesting observation. There are excellent HN users who are trolls elsewhere. They just respect the rules here, because they understand the intention behind them and want HN to actually be the kind of site you get when the game has those rules. After encountering a few such users, I got more interested in explaining the intention behind the site: that it isn't about being nice or virtuous so much as having a place that isn't boring, and that this only works if everyone carries their share of responsibility for not torching it.
- DoreenMichele 9y ago
- callesgg 9y agoI find that the Atlantic has to much narrative in their storys. The articles are more about peoples opinions than they are about the facts behind those opinions. Its like reading books.
- dsr_ 9y agoI'm pretty sure that's their view of how the magazine should be. Not everything is to everyone's taste, and now you know that The Atlantic isn't to yours.
- crickshinks 9y agoPersonally I find it disturbing that if I search for 'free games' and then put 'torture' in the search box I find children's games devoted to torture. OK, nobody is being hurt, and I'm aware many boys like to pull the wings off insects, and so on. But it seems wrong that creativity and funding are going into supplying this sort of thing.
- intopieces 9y agoOne of the reasons I stopped eating meat was the that the industry itself is traumatic to the humans who process the animals and I wasn't comfortable participating in that economically. So, I was happy to see that I don't use any of the services listed there, except a bit of YouTube. If I could avoid that one, I would too.