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Maintaining community standards on an international site with 100M+ members is a complex job. Even if you could Turk out 99.5% of the cases there will be hundre

by neilk 18y ago

Maintaining community standards on an international site with 100M+ members is a complex job. Even if you could Turk out 99.5% of the cases there will be hundreds of borderline issues every day that need more careful evaluation. To really do it right you'd need a background in anthropology, sexuality, psychology, and international law. Such a degree program will probably never exist, so you need to go for a generally smart and adaptable person. Is that person necessarily a Stanford grad? Certainly they are smart and driven, but personally I'd look for the person who was more exploratory and meandering in their self-education. My guess is that would negatively correlate with a Stanford degree.

mikeyur 18y ago
Since when do you need a background in anthropology to decide whether an image has nipple showing or not?
- neilk 18y ago
  Some lower-level employee just banned the entire Outer Limpopo Breastfeeding Advocacy discussion group because there are a couple of photos where the nipple is peeking out around a baby's mouth. There's a couple of protest groups starting up; some are angry and say that breastfeeding isn't against the TOS at all, since it's not porn. You are becoming a laughingstock among your more liberal members. Some members are posting even more breastfeeding images, in solidarity, generating even more complaints. Another is claiming that this is a continuation of colonialism, since your company accepts advertisements from Nestle, and that your executives just want to see little Limpoponese babies die because more mothers accepted the use of formula instead of breast milk. Apparently this is a huge issue of national identity in Limpopo, blaming infant mortality on formula-pushing conglomerates. The Limpoponese health minister denounced your company in a prepared statement while your entire team in North America was asleep. Six hours later, it's front page news in Europe. What do you do, mikeyur? WHAT DO YOU DO?
  - mikeyur 18y ago
    They obviously need to have some measures in place - of what is acceptable and what isn't. That doesn't mean you need a degree to do the job. And I'm an SEO/Marketing Consultant.

by neilk 18y ago

mikeyur 18y ago

Since when do you need a background in anthropology to decide whether an image has nipple showing or not?

neilk 18y ago
Some lower-level employee just banned the entire Outer Limpopo Breastfeeding Advocacy discussion group because there are a couple of photos where the nipple is peeking out around a baby's mouth. There's a couple of protest groups starting up; some are angry and say that breastfeeding isn't against the TOS at all, since it's not porn. You are becoming a laughingstock among your more liberal members. Some members are posting even more breastfeeding images, in solidarity, generating even more complaints. Another is claiming that this is a continuation of colonialism, since your company accepts advertisements from Nestle, and that your executives just want to see little Limpoponese babies die because more mothers accepted the use of formula instead of breast milk. Apparently this is a huge issue of national identity in Limpopo, blaming infant mortality on formula-pushing conglomerates. The Limpoponese health minister denounced your company in a prepared statement while your entire team in North America was asleep. Six hours later, it's front page news in Europe. What do you do, mikeyur? WHAT DO YOU DO?
- mikeyur 18y ago
  They obviously need to have some measures in place - of what is acceptable and what isn't. That doesn't mean you need a degree to do the job. And I'm an SEO/Marketing Consultant.