Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination
Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination
While Reddit mods and admin try to keep up with the site's "no violence" terms of use, Facebook and LinkedIn is reacting with tens of thousands of laughing emojis.
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Why the fuck would the moderators care about how much work it is to remove the posts.
One of the mods said (in the article) that to their knowledge it's mostly the paid admins removing it not the unpaid moderators.
The quote I was referencing is this:
“People - Please don't make the life of your mods a living hell. Anything that is celebrating violence is going to get taken down - if not from us, then from reddit. I think all the mods understand that there is a high level of frustration and antipathy towards insurance and insurance execs, but we also understand that murdering people in the streets is not good. We are a public group of medical professionals, we still need to act like that.”
The line about making their lives a living hell?
If you ever feel the need to type that in reference to your volunteer Reddit moderation... Stand up, go outside.
Imagine letting an unpaid position on social media "make life hell"
Well, first of all fuck reddit, but secondly: if you appreciate actual human moderation in any significant sense - it's hard work.
Getting paid to do it is rare (again - fuck reddit, they should get off of there) but on any site that's actually trying to honestly build or host a community it takes time to check the reports, message the people, log the entry all that shit. It's a huge pain in the ass when something blows up, which is why neither you or I will likely ever be mods. When it's the scale of reddit it's bound to be a lot of scrambling until shit cools off again.
To be honest, I actually don't really appreciate human moderation, so that's probably biasing my position.
I can block communities. I can block users. I can set word filters.
If I block someone, I never have to hear from them again. If a moderator does, they'll be back with a new account, and then I DO have to hear from them.
I'd far prefer a "federated" and crowdsourced mechanism to layer onto an extremely lightly moderated foundational layer.
If someone, or someones, want to curate a filter list that aligns with my sensibilities, awesome, I'll opt in. I'll contribute. If I bump into unresolvable issues with other filter curators I'll fork the filter.
I don't need or want a tiny subset of users working full time for free getting burnt out or going on power trip crusades.
If the admins feel like mods aren't doing enough to keep a sub within reddits guidelines, they may remove mods or even ban the subreddit entirely.