A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

Re:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life by dane-pgp on Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:55AM (#29130697)

> Paid moderation isn't usually something people are willing to pay for.

Is there any reason to think that paid moderation wouldn't lead to its own (possibly worse) biases?

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Re:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life by martincmartin on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:43PM (#29132737)

Hacker News has paid moderators, and seems to be higher signal than Reddit.

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Re:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life by short12 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:51PM (#29132802)

HN moderation is pretty terrible considering the slow amount of posts per day

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Re:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life by _-david-_ on Saturday November 06, 2021 @11:32PM (#29136324)

Is that actually due to moderation?

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Re:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life by joconde on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:53PM (#29133292)

What's wrong with it?

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Re:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life by rnd0 on Monday November 08, 2021 @08:11AM (#29148895)

What works on a slow / low volume site (HN) doesn't necessarily work well on a high volume site such as Reddit.

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Re:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life by DFHippie on Saturday November 06, 2021 @11:35AM (#29131079)

I guess the reason would be that they could take away your pay.

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Re:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life by dane-pgp on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:07PM (#29131386)

But who is "they"? The one who pays the piper picks the tune.

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