The Invisible Cost of a Clean Internet: Burning Out Poor People's Souls to Moderate Online Content
Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
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Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
Read MoreReddit isn't the only billion-dollar-brand built on free labor that is facing a user/moderator revolt. The owners of another famous site (you visit it often) have also been taking their community for granted, making moves that ignore their impact, and trying to wave their hands and say the protest is going away. It's not.
Read MoreIf you thought warring with users, canceling third party apps, site protests, and hackers demanding ransom were the worst things going on at Reddit, you're a bit behind in the news.
Read MoreThe change is logical given developments with the blackouts. Read the draft announcement.
Read MoreThe Reddit CEO wrote a memo giving his reaction to the blackout protest and it was immediately leaked to the press. After reading it, do you think he really believes what he wrote or is he just trying to put on a brave face?
Read MoreIn a widespread act of protest, thousands of the most popular subreddits have gone private, blocking visitors and in some cases disallowing new threads. This is being done to protest Reddit's API policy, which is killing third party apps.
Read MoreReddit is preparing to go public. Again. This time they're hoping to raise only 44% of what they were looking for the previous time. To make sure the IPO is successful, they're making moves to...drive their users away?! The new API fees seem to guarantee a shrinking user base just when Reddit is going under the magnifying glass.
Read MoreDoes it really take 10x more people to run Twitter compared to Reddit?
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