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Here's what I think is happening: megacorps want to overwork people into the ground, but pretend that it's disturbing content that's causing it, not them forcin
by zzzcpan 7y ago
Here's what I think is happening: megacorps want to overwork people into the ground, but pretend that it's disturbing content that's causing it, not them forcing people to keep focused and assessing content all day long.
I moderated millions of images myself, plenty of disturbing images, but for my own project and this is why it sounds like bullshit to me.
- thrwaway69 7y agoOr it is both... Honestly speaking, whether it be videos of extreme content or fluffy rabbits. I will feel absolutely terrible after a few hours of having to watch it. I can't imagine doing that for months.
- Loughla 7y agoHere's a thought. Maybe it's both, first off. The shit hours and disturbing content. Also, your sample of experience, n=1, is not great. And genuinely, if you can look at child porn, murder, and other awful, genuinely terrible things all day, every day, and not be impacted, you 100% need to speak to a therapist. That is not the normal human response to trauma.
- zzzcpan 7y ago> And genuinely, if you can look at child porn, murder, and other awful, genuinely terrible things all day, every day, and not be impacted Well, that's not what moderation is. Most of it is not actually disturbing content. And when you are moderating it, you don't know what kind of content you are looking at, until you get to the point that you do, but that's the point where you have to block it and move on to the next thing. There is not much possibility for emotions. But it is very mentally exhausting work.