The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook
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#2non paywall link http://archive.is/tmFps
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#3I thought the article would be about the gigantic computer scrap-yards in Ghana.
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#4I found this juxtaposition unsettling:
“I was watching the content of deranged psychos in the woods somewhere who don’t have a conscience for the texture or feel of human connection,”
"...If the managers noticed a few minutes of inactivity, they would ping him on workplace messaging tool Slack to ask why he wasn’t working."
The texture of human connection is severely diminished when you are managing what is essentially a drip-fed trauma survivor remotely using a metric of trauma exposure per minute.
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#5This sort of stuff at one point was handled by hosting providers. It now seems that the internet is "facebook/google" so it is no wonder they are getting the brunt of this sot of work.
I can tell you back in the day when I worked for Rackshack I never envied the abuse department. They always looked stressed out.
8k post in a day is just too many for one person. Its not about how much work they are doing, its about the content they are subjected to look at and review. To do that you have to actually think about it and make a decision -- and that takes a toll on people -- you don't get to forget.
I am not one for regulation but if there is on place in tech that should be considered for regulation, then I think this is a good place to start.
These workers need paid more, access to therapy and much more time off. I also think there are technical solutions to help ease the work needed, but that cost, and nobody seems to want to pay with human workers left holding the bag. This would also include stricter rules to make filtering easier.
Good job, you guys can put a dancing hotdog on the screen why not use that talent to work and make back-end systems to automate this sort of horrid work away. I know it will be hard, but if NN and deep learning is all cracked up to what keeps being preached then it should be within the realm of possible.
Also, while with the when it comes to the law, I am for the notion that it is okay if 10 bad people get away if it means not falsely convicting 1 good person. However on the internet with regards to what normally amounts to pointless shit that people post on the internet. I am okay with 100 good post being automatically removed it if means 1 bad post is also removed.
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#6Abuse departments make Internets not feel like hpme since maybe 2005. I for once will be happier if they stop doing that.
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#7This sort of stuff at one point was handled by hosting providers. It now seems that the internet is "facebook/google" so it is no wonder they are getting the brunt of this sot of work. I can tell you back in the day when I worked for Rackshack I never envied the abuse department. They always looked stressed out. 8k post in a day is just too many for one person. Its not about how much work they are doing, its about th…
> I am okay with 100 good post being automatically removed it if means 1 bad post is also removed.
Why? Posts on the internet are pure data. I'm okay with no posts ever being removed.
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#8This sort of stuff at one point was handled by hosting providers. It now seems that the internet is "facebook/google" so it is no wonder they are getting the brunt of this sot of work. I can tell you back in the day when I worked for Rackshack I never envied the abuse department. They always looked stressed out. 8k post in a day is just too many for one person. Its not about how much work they are doing, its about th…
> I am okay with 100 good post being automatically removed it if means 1 bad post is also removed. Why? Posts on the internet are pure data. I'm okay with no posts ever being removed.
Posts on the Internet may be pure data, but that doesn't give support for why they should never be removed.
IRL analogy: the dog shit that my neighbor throws onto the sidewalk is pure matter. Just atoms and molecules and such. Should it not be removed?
EDIT: Not that I agree with the 100 sacrificial removals for each good one. I don't. But the "pure data" argument doesn't work for me.
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#9This sort of stuff at one point was handled by hosting providers. It now seems that the internet is "facebook/google" so it is no wonder they are getting the brunt of this sot of work. I can tell you back in the day when I worked for Rackshack I never envied the abuse department. They always looked stressed out. 8k post in a day is just too many for one person. Its not about how much work they are doing, its about th…
> However on the internet with regards to what normally amounts to pointless shit that people post on the internet. I am okay with 100 good post being automatically removed it if means 1 bad post is also removed.
If you don't like Internet then just get off it!
You probably never noticed, but some people have this thing called self-actualization. By removing good posts you step on it with your greasy foot. By removing controversial posts you also step on it. That's a lot of damage that you did to innocent people right here.
We've got to get off HTTP just that people like you never have the chance to step into other people's homes, decide what they can and can't post and view.
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#10Abuse departments make Internets not feel like hpme since maybe 2005. I for once will be happier if they stop doing that.
I'm not sure what you mean by "hpme" - do you mean "home"?
If so, I suspect you're just commenting without basis, and have no actual inkling what this content is really like.
I work for a large internet company, and have to deal with some of this as a tangential part of my role. Trust me, there is stuff that most normal people would never even want to go near. (No, I'm not talking some angry rants, or some naughty pictures).
I'm all for freedom of speech and all - but I have no qualms about this stuff being flagged as inappropriate and put behind a filter. If you really want to find this stuff, you can - there are communities and chat groups trading in it - you wouldn't have much trouble finding it. But I would posit that most people that want this stuff are actively looking for it, versus wanting to see it on their Facebook or Google+ feed.