I’ve once been given a 24 hours ban on my Facebook account for apparently, posting a obscene photo (which wasn’t obscene BTW, it was about I holding a Vodka Bottle).
Facebook has a strict censorship policy and drawing a d^&k on your friend’s face when he’s passed out drunk is a no-no. Also: praising Hitler.Â
Photo for representation purpose only via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rishibando/4660452869/in/set-72157629115139317
We feel the policy is quite reasonable up to a point, but taking care of it with such a HUGE platform is a huge huge ask. The company has a long list of things that it doesn’t put up with including hate speech, posting pictures of animal cruelty, encouraging anorexia, bullying other users and posting pictures of passed-out people with p*&^s drawings on their faces or even posting update above a certain in a day can get you a 24 hours ban, if you do it for the first time and the ban duration goes on increasing.
We think, these policies are what keeps Facebook from becoming what YouTube comments section are a horrid place to be, that is, if you are on the receiving end 😉
We sure know Mark Zuckerburg doesn’t sit there all day doing this job and nor do the Facebook employees do it, they employee students living in Asia, Africa and Central America.
These guys are paid around $4 an hour, they are literally the Internet Janitors or the Internet Sewer Cleaner
“Think like that there is a sewer channel,” one moderator explained to the popular gossip site Gawker, “and all of the mess/dirt/waste/sh*t of the world flow towards you and you have to clean it.”
Each moderator seemed to find a different genre of offensive content especially jarring. One was shaken by videos of animal abuse. (“A couple a day,” he said.) For another, it was the racism: “You had KKK cropping up everywhere.” Another complained of violent videos of “bad fights, a man beating another.”
According to Gawker, most of the students are “young and well-educated.” For them, moderating Facebook content was a way to “make money on the side,” but it seems like the job just isn’t worth the psychological effects of “Pedophilia, Necrophelia, Beheadings, Suicides, etc,” one moderator recalled. “I left because I value my mental sanity.”
Doesn’t that sound like a depressing job? Would you do the Internet cleaning work online? We’ll you could do it for your own website, but would you work that way for other to earn SOME extra bucks?
via: AndroidPIT