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I didn't agree on it. What likely happened was a bunch of excited folks wrote a whole bunch of words, and that volume gave the appearance of consensus. Automat
by simoncion 4y ago
I didn't agree on it. What likely happened was a bunch of excited folks wrote a whole bunch of words, and that volume gave the appearance of consensus.
Automated review is not good enough for services that are so large that they are de facto public squares. If the world were just, when you got that big, the rules would change to prohibit you from doing service-wide content filtering.
> ...calling for more automation and less traumatic moderation work.
Pay me 80% of what I would be making as a programmer (and keep up with changes in the market rate for programmers), and I'd be totally willing to do that moderation work. [0] There are _tons_ of people who have my intestinal fortitude out there... problem is that the enormous "social media" companies don't want to pay enough to get people who are well-suited for the work.
[0] You might counter with "Oh, well you can't _possibly_ imagine the things you'll see, you're all bluster and bravado and will quit within the month!". I'd counter with "Yeah, well you have no idea the things that I _have_ seen.".