You don’t have to understand it for it to be real. The shit they see is way way worse than goatse. For example, a helpless screaming crying child (who may look like the moderator’s own child) getting raped by someone they trust. That and worse gets uploaded, and it’s their job to delete it.
Obviously being in the room with the victim is probably worse, but that doesn’t mean seeing this kind of thing regularly isn’t still enough to do some damage to some people.
Is there some expectation that they sit and watch the whole thing end-to-end with headphones on?
I'd think skipping around and finding a few frames would be more than enough to be like "nope, that's a bad one", flag it, and move on.
I would think the police and prosecutors that follow up would have to see and document that stuff in way more detail, and nobody's talking about their PTSD.
I'm not saying it's not bad, but I think the initial moderation flag has to be one of the least bad of all the people in the pipeline that will have to deal with those cases.
Dismissing one atrocity faster only means you get to the next one sooner.
You have no agency over the inflow, and there's little evidence that what you're doing has an effect -- the stream never stops. Metrics for performance and benefit of the effort as a whole are hard to construct and communicate.
As a moderator, it's just shitty shit often being done by shitty people, posted by other shitty people, again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
There's no diseased root to hack off. And if you do happen to find one, another grows in its place -- a literal Medusa's head.
> I would think the police and prosecutors that follow up would have to see and document that stuff in way more detail, and nobody's talking about their PTSD.
Uhm, it's actually super well known within law enforcement that law enforcement is emotionally exhausting, so much so that specific units are separated out and the officers rotated to avoid burnout. (Special victims Units, you may know them as)
> I would think the police and prosecutors that follow up would have to see and document that stuff in way more detail, and nobody's talking about their PTSD.
Obviously being in the room with the victim is probably worse, but that doesn’t mean seeing this kind of thing regularly isn’t still enough to do some damage to some people.