The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators

Re:The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators by mirimir on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @06:51PM (#23922418)

> ... make content moderation more humane.

Modest proposal: Find people who enjoy horrific content, and have them rate it. Then black-hole whatever they rate as most extreme.

I was is a dark place after 9/11, both from the trauma of that, and some personal issues. So I spent considerable time on Rotten, Something Awful, and worse. Based on that experience, many would likely do content moderation for free.

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Re:The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators by peroporque on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:01AM (#23925494)

Maybe not enjoy, but there are certainly people who are much less affected, or not affected at all, by it.

These media stories always focus on those who picked the wrong job for their caracter, and then make a big drama of it.

I mean, there are people cutting open other humans daily. We call them surgeons. I would puke right there and could never do that. Different people have different abilities. Simple.

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Re:The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators by mirimir on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:09PM (#23923512)

It'd be very cool if someone who thinks that this is a horrible idea (and there must be some) would explain why. Just sayin'.

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Re:The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators by throwawayway9 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:16PM (#23923850)

That sounds like a great idea, not only to just black hole the content, but to have people who are less prone to have adverse side effects from watching such material be moderators.

Thanks for sharing that part about being in that kind of place, I have a feeling many could relate.

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Re:The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators by vanusa on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:21PM (#23931206)

Find people who enjoy horrific content,

Yup - these are exactly the kind of people you want to rub shoulders, and stock your company's ranks with.

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Re:The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators by mirimir on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:44PM (#23932655)

Yes, I get it. Those are not nice people. Few of us would want to be friends with them. Or even work in the same building. So have them work from home, or for a standalone subcontractor.

I also get the downside of employing them. But people need to look at that stuff, even if software does most of the work. So it might as well be people who can tolerate it, and perhaps even enjoy it.

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