The Horrors of Being a Facebook Moderator

[ItsjustMe]

Traumatic content such as hate speech, porn and brutal violence are just some of the topics this Facebook content moderator was faced with on a daily basis.

[AllaN01Bear]

1. never knew there was such a thing.

[MotorCityBeard]

13. I've seen another clip before of a moderator for fb talking about it

It was horrifying and some of the things he described he watched were unreal. Just his descriptions bothered (and stuck with) me, and I hadn't even seen the clips. I could never do a job like this.

I know the REAL fake political news on fb is a big problem, but this is also. There are a hell of a lot of truly sick people posting shit that need to be stopped.

[Champp]

2. Wow

Just wow

[Johnny2X2X]

3. That would be awful

A friend used to be a local prosecutor and he specialized in prosecuting crimes against children. He knew a guy in law enforcement whose job it was to watch and catalog the child porn they confiscated and try to ID the victims in it. That guy killed himself in his early 40s.

You can only see so much of the worst things and not be damaged.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. I wish every pedophile was dead

Every dark triad type too.

[Celerity]

10. Donald Trump as High in the Dark Triad

August 6, 2016

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/201608/donald-trump-high-in-the-dark-triad

[Binkie The Clown]

4. I once had a post removed because...

...It quoted the headline of an article: "Is There Life on Mars?" and the reason for it being deleted was that it was NOT proof that there is life on Mars. I never claimed that it was. It asked a legitimate question, and the article concluded with "probably not", and was a very rational, level-headed article. Yet posting a link to that article was considered objectionable for a "reason" that had no relationship to the reality of the post.

Some moderator was just in a cranky mood that morning.

[Johonny]

9. yeah you get weird bans and post removals now

I've gotten to the point of just dropping kids picture and hitting like buttons. Any other activity is subject to the whim of a cranky moderator.

[shrike3]

11. I think there are also algorithms at work.

That get set off by a word, or a certain combination of words.

[AllaN01Bear]

14. i belong to a couple of groups . toy trains . crystal radio and so fourth

i have a lot of fam on fb and friends from the greater church i belong to are there . but i only have a few rws on there and they dont say much.

[Leith]

5. Wow

There are so many horrible things happening in this world that we have to protect ourselves from it. I've often said that no single person can save the world. All we can do is protect our own little corner of it.

Damn! I thought I had some shitty jobs in my time.

[yonder]

6. I had no idea but somehow am not surprised

[Initech]

7. I've moderated many internet forums in the past (and present).

It's a terrible job but somebody has to do it. I could probably write a book with some of the crazy stuff I've seen on the internet.

[hunter]

12. "Moderating" has at times in the past left me with a very low opinion of the human race.

I'm a bit misanthropic.

Court ordered public castrations with rusty serrated knives ought to be a YouTube channel.

Alas there would be people who got off on that.

[vercetti2021]

15. The internet was a huge mistake for humanity

While it does have positives, it has way more negatives. It gives a platform to inhuman individuals.

[OhZone]

16. Maybe I shouldn't admit it -

but I moderate a fetish forum, yeah - an old fashioned forum like this one (HA!), and nowadays we only get spam.

Nothing as bad as what this person is describing.

We used to get more trolls, but I they are mostly either banned, muted, or just bored and gone. And they never were really that bad. It was very rare to see any kind of sick picture or link. Mostly it was comments that pissed people off. Like one of my favorite artists called me a f*cking c*nt for some reason, and I really liked his work too. He was probably the worst troll there besides the former owner. Ha

Oh, and politics. Yeah, being a fetish forum it leans left, and we actually had some good debates in the Flame section.

Oh well. Nothing like the FB mod here.