If you've ever worked at a tech company and have had to make (or watch your peers make) the wrenching decisions that go behind content moderation, watching the slow motion train wreck @TeamYouTube feels like a strange mix of catharsis and schadenfreude
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Some people seem to be missing the point of “wrenching”: I am not trying to excuse misguided top level policies of a place like YouTube but rather expressing sympathy for the real humans tasked with making the thousands of decisions in the midst of a mess of content
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Many of these decisions are straightforward and should have been implemented at a far higher level than before (c.f. Twitter / nazis), but many of them are not. Most of the time the people making the decisions are underpaid and have very little leeway in judgment.
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@TeamYouTube struggle with their mess makes you wonder whether the people at the top are being remained, in a very painful way, about the challenges faced by the every day moderators.3 replies 1 retweet 13 likesShow this thread
Good pt. folks at top only care about 'moderating' in so far as, what does it do to their profits. Period.
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