Show HN: Moderator Mayhem, a game about the difficulties of content moderation
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Show HN: Moderator Mayhem, a game about the difficulties of content moderation
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#2Mobile UI broke completely on me before my first round was complete (Chrome, Android). Otherwise seems well-done and a useful learning tool.
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#3This is more like a game about shitty management communication. The rules are fairly arbitrary, and you're not told about any of them until you screw up, and even clear-cut cases like someone posting someone else's phone number are used to slap your wrist (apparently the second person consented, but nobody explains why that's your problem. Surely the second person can post their own phone number). Some advertisement is okay, other advertisement is forbidden. There's never a policy about which is which, you just have to guess. If this is how social media websites handle content reviewing it's no wonder the industry is a cesspit.
In all after playing for about ten minutes, I have to conclude that this is some kind of corporate apologetics for bad content management. The pointless timer really drives home that this problem could be solved by spending more money on training content reviewers and hiring more of them. I came away from the game feeling like it's a sequel to Papers, Please.
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#4I loved the part where I lost a bunch of time to attend a mandatory nerf battle then got fired for not doing enough work.
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#5Skipped the tutorial and got fired pretty soon, seems unrealistic ;-)
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#6This reminded me that "Papers Please" exists.
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#7This would be better if there was more moral/ethical depth. It also doesn't explore how content moderation policies shape discourse and how moderators often times abuse such policies to manipulate posts that fit their ideology.
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#8Mobile UI broke completely on me before my first round was complete (Chrome, Android). Otherwise seems well-done and a useful learning tool.
I'd call that breakdown realistic.
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#9A neat game, but my enjoyment of it is somewhat dulled since I watch my mom play this in real life on a daily basis - her job is moderating product reviews.
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#10This is more like a game about shitty management communication. The rules are fairly arbitrary, and you're not told about any of them until you screw up, and even clear-cut cases like someone posting someone else's phone number are used to slap your wrist (apparently the second person consented, but nobody explains why that's your problem. Surely the second person can post their own phone number). Some advertisement…
"corporate apologetics" - This is pretty clearly about the actual experience of working as a front-line worker in content management. Percieved time pressure, edge cases, lack of context, juggling 100 different priorities.