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Radical idea: if your service requires subjecting lots and lots of workers to scarring images, the correct solution is for that service not to exist. Facebook

Radical idea: if your service requires subjecting lots and lots of workers to scarring images, the correct solution is for that service not to exist. Facebook doesn’t have to let people post material to their site with very low barriers to entry. Granted they have to if they want to continue to be what they are and to make tons of money... but maybe they shouldn’t continue to be what they are and make tons of money if this kind of abuse is necessarily coupled to those outcomes. “Well this sucks but we can’t keep operating if we don’t do it”. Well... sure but the solution is right there in that statement. Don’t keep operating.

rosywoozlechan 6y ago
Any place anyone can add any user content has this problem. Anything with an input box and a file upload would qualify as your not existing solution.
- pantaloony 6y ago
  1) that seems basically fine, but also 2) non-commercial efforts run by hobbyists and gated from the general public ought to be Ok. If you want to run a PHPBB site and subject yourself to harmful garbage by letting randos write to your server, well, go nuts. [edit] thought experiment: how many of the people making tons of money off Facebook—c-suite, major shareholders—would find some other way to make money if continuing to make Facebook mega bucks meant they had to do this 5 days a week? What would we think of any of them who chose “bring on the trauma, I want those sweet greenbacks” and kept it up for years?
- jbrennan 6y ago
  I think there’s a difference that depends on scale and privacy. If your network is private (or something more akin to p2p / messaging) this is much less of an issue, especially if you have strong blocking controls. Users moderate themselves. I think the problems that Facebook, Youtube, etc are seeing stem from the fact that the content is much more public, thus in much more need of moderation.

rosywoozlechan 6y ago

Any place anyone can add any user content has this problem. Anything with an input box and a file upload would qualify as your not existing solution.

pantaloony 6y ago
1) that seems basically fine, but also 2) non-commercial efforts run by hobbyists and gated from the general public ought to be Ok. If you want to run a PHPBB site and subject yourself to harmful garbage by letting randos write to your server, well, go nuts. [edit] thought experiment: how many of the people making tons of money off Facebook—c-suite, major shareholders—would find some other way to make money if continuing to make Facebook mega bucks meant they had to do this 5 days a week? What would we think of any of them who chose “bring on the trauma, I want those sweet greenbacks” and kept it up for years?
jbrennan 6y ago
I think there’s a difference that depends on scale and privacy. If your network is private (or something more akin to p2p / messaging) this is much less of an issue, especially if you have strong blocking controls. Users moderate themselves. I think the problems that Facebook, Youtube, etc are seeing stem from the fact that the content is much more public, thus in much more need of moderation.