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You completely ignored the "doing unpaid labour for a megacorporation" portion, which is the "sarcastic" point the author is making. Unpaid individuals should n
by Ansil849 5y ago
You completely ignored the "doing unpaid labour for a megacorporation" portion, which is the "sarcastic" point the author is making. Unpaid individuals should not be doing content moderation for Google.
- thrdbndndn 5y agoJust don't do it if you don't want? I'm very surprised someone would call marking harmful material on a website "doing content moderation for XXX company". I flag posts on HN in regular basis too, I guess that counts as "doing unpaid labor" as well. I benefit a lot from GMaps as a community, so I don't mind to contribute some bit. No, Google don't pay me or anyone in the community, but they provided the platform which isn't nothing. "Cost" is never even in my mind. I just.. use it as a tool. At this point I guess our values are just different, so I'm not going to argue with that. Practically speaking, it's unlikely Google don't have a moderation team for GMaps at all, but it's literally impossible for any company to go through all the content at GMaps' scale, even if they tried. User report is alway needed.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y agoThey don't have to if they don't want to.
- pharrington 5y agoThis is the online version of picking up the trash when you're at the shopping mall. Some people actually just enjoy improving their immediate surroundings!