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Yes, 15000 is a lot. But >2 billion people is a lot more. Wikipedia has far fewer people employed on content moderation yet they seem to fair just fine. This nu
by hetspookjee 5y ago
Yes, 15000 is a lot. But >2 billion people is a lot more. Wikipedia has far fewer people employed on content moderation yet they seem to fair just fine. This number throwing on Facebook "doing an effort" is an attempt to keep the toxic business model that they have a live at an acceptable rate. How many people would they save for hiring if they'd change the timeline into a chronological one instead of their current one? It'd be much harder to get as much attention than, but also less addictive, which is a net good for every human except for Facebook as a business.
- discobot2 5y agoWikipedia has much less content
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoYes. Perhaps that's a clue? FB's groups are terribly designed if you want to have a conversation and keep a collection of useful information. They're cleverly designed to keep people scrolling forever on a content treadmill - in no way the same as optimising them for usefulness.
- Spivak 5y agoI mean TikTok is the perfectly optimized content treadmill and compared to Facebook and people rave about how good it is. You forget that a lot of the value of social media is passive entertainment to unwind.
- colejohnson66 5y agoWikipedia can also be “moderated” by anyone. If I see spam or incorrect info on Wikipedia, I can edit it myself. Maybe reword things, add references, etc. On social media (FB/IG/etc), I don’t have that choice. My only option is to report it and hope the moderators don’t say “this [x] doesn’t violate our community standards” on a clearly spam/scam account/comment/post. I’ve reported so much garbage on social media only to be told it’s not a scam or whatever, I’ve practically given up trying.
- Spivak 5y agoI mean you can't really do that on Wikipedia anymore. Sure the edit button is there but there's the spiritual equivalent of a PR process now.
- colejohnson66 5y agoTrue; I’ve definitely had my edits reversed or challenged. But I’ve also made many edits that weren’t (mainly on more niche pages).
- jasonshaev 5y agoI agree it's not enough. I simply wanted to point out that Facebook, tacitly or otherwise, admits it's not a problem they can solve purely with technology right now (...without making massive changes to their platform that undercut their bottom line, as you said).