YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD

Re:YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging... by Loughla on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:10PM (#22140206)

Here's a thought. Maybe it's both, first off. The shit hours and disturbing content.

Also, your sample of experience, n=1, is not great. And genuinely, if you can look at child porn, murder, and other awful, genuinely terrible things all day, every day, and not be impacted, you 100% need to speak to a therapist. That is not the normal human response to trauma.

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Re:YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging... by zzzcpan on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:02PM (#22140783)

> And genuinely, if you can look at child porn, murder, and other awful, genuinely terrible things all day, every day, and not be impacted

Well, that's not what moderation is. Most of it is not actually disturbing content. And when you are moderating it, you don't know what kind of content you are looking at, until you get to the point that you do, but that's the point where you have to block it and move on to the next thing. There is not much possibility for emotions. But it is very mentally exhausting work.

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