right, because the people who can't get jobs should definitely be the ones policing speech.

that aside, instead of focusing on upskilling or whatever else, you want unemployed people to spend their days as internet jannies?

now add to this all the recent reports about how being a jannie destroys mental health from all the awful things people post, why would a demographic that already has bad mental health and higher suicide rates do that?

Moderating content, while mundane is valid and valuable experience, not only in the technology aspects but in the human skills that you'd find in any sort of consumer relations focused career.

Hopefully people would choose wisely and at least try to have some feel of a community before deciding to take on moderation duties

Content moderation seems to lack the transparency and culture awareness that existing jobs like journalism, lawyers/judicial, first responders, etc type public value jobs have developed over time. Maybe one day it will mature to being an honourable and socially respected job but they have a long way to go if Reddit/Twitter/FB is any indication (HN/dang on the other hand has done an amazing job).

It’s valuable no doubt but it’s also littered with petty tyrants, power hungry nerds seeking an outlet for their lack of power elsewhere, and people acting with little regard for wider impact of their choices besides their own emotions and ideological quirks. The type of stuff that would never fly in other socially respected jobs.

I personally don’t see it as some sort of career promotion thing. But I’m sure it’s valuable to jobs that have to deal with people everyday, but don’t necessarily have any strong consequences for decisions or top down/societal oversight… like retail and low level sales jobs.

This post reeks of deeply rooted, unfounded assumptions and biases.

You're saying janitors/unemployed peoples are a demographic? Come now. Anyone can be unemployed or a janitor.

sorry jannie is a derogatory term for a internet moderator who does it for free. nothing at all against actual janitors who have real jobs. sometimes i get too terminally online for hn.

In the hypothetical example they did get a job. As a moderator.

Paid? By whom? At some level the experience might be useful, but we generally pay interns a decent wage.

that's not a job? there's a reason one of the most common ways to insult them is "they do it for free".