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And all silcon valley wants to do away with this type of work in the name of HumanOps. Highly educated professionals as typically hired by tech do not want to m
by thinkingemote 4y ago
And all silcon valley wants to do away with this type of work in the name of HumanOps. Highly educated professionals as typically hired by tech do not want to moderate for money and so they and their employers use machine learning for such "drudge work". Moderation is triggering and traumatic and abuse reports can cause psychological harm to the worker dealing with it. This is literally what all of silicon valley believes. In real life, therapists have to go to their own therapists regularly so there is some precedent!
That they don't see the army of Reddit moderators as an indicator that things can scale is a sign.
I suspect it's about an under valued skill in people.
Personally I'm in favour of the semi-anonymous freenode channel ops who are encouraged to be hidden at least until required and image board "janitors". Basically moderators shouldn't be idolized or be given unique powers or made to stand out as a special power user but it should be seen as a kind of service. Humble moderation.