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The Hell Known As Internet Screening Services
circletimessquare writes "Do you think your job is bad? Some websites outsource their moderation to firms where every work day, all work day, workers do nothing but sift through depravity after depravity. '"You have 20-year-old kids who get hired to do content review, and who get excited because they think they are going to see adult porn," said Hemanshu Nigam, the former chief security officer at MySpace. "They have no idea that some of the despicable and illegal images they will see can haunt them for the rest of their lives."' Some places only do year-long contracts, and have counseling services and staff psychologists, because of the psychological issues caused by this kind of work. One psychologist 'reached some unsettling conclusions in her interviews with content moderators. She said they were likely to become depressed or angry, have trouble forming relationships and suffer from decreased sexual appetites. Small percentages said they had reacted to unpleasant images by vomiting or crying. "The images interfere with their thinking processes. It messes up the way you react to your partner," Ms. Laperal said. "If you work with garbage, you will get dirty."'"
So it's like getting paid to browse /b/?
I thought that was the definition of "browsing the Internet".
Oh, they'll filter alright. Just the other way around.
As the great Jello Biafra once said: "Want to see child porn? Join the vice squad."
Without reading your comment, I got the impression from your subject that you were selling something. Now that, I thought, is truly depraved.
I'd like to see Mike spend a day cleaning up the interwebs!
And how frequently do you click on random URLs from people you don't know now that you've had that experience?
All. day. long! :'(
You can't take the sky from me...
Or get a braille screen and hire blind people.
I used to be a content moderator for ehow.com, a demand media subsidiary. Luckily all I had to do was sort out the bad user articles that weren't up to their quality standard. I came across some oddly disturbing stuff but at least it was only text. I definitely now have it embedded in my mind though that 99% of people can't write an article properly to save their own life and most Americans are degenerate mutant freaks who need to go back to school to learn basic grammar and spelling skills but other than that, I came out of it perfectly sane lol.
Google's Super Secret Search Algorithm: SELECT @search_results FROM internet WHERE @search_results = 'good'
The problem is that most 20 year old kids don't really know how sensitive they are to things like this until they're repeatedly exposed to them, by which point much of the damage has already been done. Luckily for me, I was exposed to the Internet and all of the nastiness on it when I was only 13, and I've managed to get by with no ill effects at all except for the occasional extended blackout followed by a dead hooker in my bed. Some more sensitive people might really lose their minds, though.
You haven't really lost your mind until the dead hookers start waking up on you...
Pics or it didn't happe — OH JESUS MY EYES!
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
What's /b/ ?
You're hired
How about:
wget <posted-page> | wc "bump" | echo "Page: <posted-page>\tDepravity level: $1\n" > filter.txt
Phillip.
Property for sale in Nice, France
You know some screwed up surgeons, man. Cautery smoke smells terrible, on par with burned hair.
Normally I'd say "Google is your friend", but friends don't let friends read /b/.