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Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by chrisseaton on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:46PM (#18774760)
> Having a bunch of likely millenial aged individuals with limited life experience

A millennial is going to be around 30. They're not children. In fact they likely have children of their own.

Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by PavlovsCat on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:08AM (#18775453)
Life experience isn't just a result of accumulated years, as one dictionary summarizes it: "experience and knowledge gained through living". If it rains a lot, but I don't catch any of it, I still have no water, yet if it rains just a tiny bit, and I hold out a cup, I do have some water. Of course, if I hold out a cup and it doesn't rain, I have no water either. You have to live to be able to gather life experience, but just living isn't enough. The same goes for having children, they are a great opportunity for learning and reflection, but they don't necessarily cause it in all people in the same degree.
Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by chrisseaton on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:29AM (#18776570)
I was replying to the idea that a millennial is a young person. They aren't. If you've got other comments about life experience direct them at the original commenter.
Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by PavlovsCat on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:27AM (#18777683)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

> demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.

It mentions various ranges, roughly 1980 at the earliest, 1996 at the latest. So a millenial according to that today would range from age 22 to age 38. That leaves us with "people under 40 with limited life experience".

They probably meant young people, sure, but the sentence makes sense either way, since under 40 is still kinda young to formulate rules for how to moderate political discussions anywhere on the globe. A person would have to study and travel and learn a lot, just about that, to have anything valuable to say about it at age 30. If you spend that time working at Facebook instead, to speak of "limited life experience" in this context is very kind either way.

The real kicker is that it's not even just about Facebook and their own limited life experiences though. From the article:

> Then the company outsources much of the actual post-by-post moderation to companies that enlist largely unskilled workers, many hired out of call centers.

The cool thing here is, since it's in the tree of their comment, the orginal commenter sees that, too.

Re:Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech by jjtheblunt on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:55PM (#18774785)
Not there they don't.