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It's tempting to think that dogfooding would be useful here. If everyone at YouTube had to moderate content, even some small percentage of their time, it would
by snowwrestler 9y ago
It's tempting to think that dogfooding would be useful here. If everyone at YouTube had to moderate content, even some small percentage of their time, it would keep the problem fresh in everyone's minds as they build and run the business.
This is probably not actually a good idea... moderation takes training and making everyone do it could make it harder to recruit and retain talented engineers. The attractiveness of the idea is probably more attributable to how frustrating the problem is.
- Erlangolem 9y agoCould you take your idea, but remove the actual moderation part? Every week or month, have a lowlights reel of the worst the mods had to sort through played at meetings. It couldn’t be four hours, and only the mods would moderate, but everyone would get a sense of what’s out there and what the mods are doing.
- pjc50 9y agoPeople would (somewhat rightly) complain that they never signed up to this, experienced PTSD as a result, and quit over it.
- ramblerman 9y agoThe point was that we have X hours of horrible material to sift through. Why not see it as a team effort, let everyone carry the burden a little bit, and perhaps in the process build products with that reality in mind. Not do more harm by collecting the worst of the worst and forcing everyone in a room to watch it....