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MySpace had to deal with this. They also had content moderators who were kept in a separate room at HQ who had to view all manner of flagged videos/photos. The
by dhosek 6y ago
MySpace had to deal with this. They also had content moderators who were kept in a separate room at HQ who had to view all manner of flagged videos/photos. The turnover was really high even though at the time, MySpace had the kind of cool factor that developers would pick up women at bars with the promise of taking them into the offices after hours (which is a whole other weirdness and the corporate higher ups had to ban the practice after a drunk couple were injured after falling off a table one Saturday night). I don't know that there was anything acting at this kind of scale before MySpace.
- cvhashim 6y agoFacebook was a zoo in its early years. Basically a frat house. Google was also a complete boys club and full of misconduct. But you have to be a complete nerd to take your date to your office, even if it’s a nice office.
- dhosek 6y agoIt really wasn't a nice office. My wife worked there from 2005–2008 and I'd occasionally pick her up after work. I think the big thing was just that it was MySpace and at the time, it was the epitome of cool. They even had a record label https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace_Records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace_Records Unlike Facebook, MySpace was heavily tied into the entertainment industry, especially music, but to a lesser extent film and stand-up comedy which probably contributed to the cool factor. The engineering culture was pretty heavily bro-grammer in a way I've never seen anywhere else.