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rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
I fricking love the people who are reposting my thread about ban evasion with "but [useless measure] at least slows people down!"
No, it fricking doesn't. If it fricking slowed people down I'd have to do a whole heck of a lot less frustrating repetitive work day in, day out.
Orthanc (@orthanc.bsky.social):
I find your threads really interesting because it just shows how much of our instincts are wrong about this stuff.
Like yes, friction is good for nudging community norms, but it's depressing finding out how determined some people are to be buttholes so friction has no effect
SuperAarthi, Witch of Stories (@superaarthi.bsky.social):
This speaks to why people struggle with this! In real life we are more likely to encounter opportunistic crime, so you lock your doors and hide your valuables to deter potential crime. But it's completely different when someone is determined to commit crime even if it's really inconvenient for them!
SuperAarthi, Witch of Stories (@superaarthi.bsky.social):
Like why would someone go through the trouble of getting past so many hurdles over and over in an arms race just to post garbage on the internet? It seems completely illogical and divorced from our own realities, but those people exist and people like Rah have actual experience dealing with them
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
When I stop and force myself to think about it from the perspective of someone who isn't frustrated as frick, it is kind of encouraging that people genuinely don't believe the level of awfulness that any given T&S team is dealing with.
SuperAarthi, Witch of Stories (@superaarthi.bsky.social):
Tbh, I wouldn't have even conceptualized some of the stuff you've talked about, if I hadn't learned about it from you, both in terms of how determined bad actors can be and the toll it takes for people to deal with them. I don't think we could properly even imagine what it's like
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
It's one of the reasons I do these sorts of explainer threads so often! It's the kind of thing where no one understands the degree of difficulty of the problem, and I was one of the people who was in that first terrible wave of T&S before there really were best practices established
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Or before we knew the psychological toll it takes to work at any sort of appreciable scale, or how to mitigate the damage it causes (to the extent we even can). I get really annoyed when people act like these solutions are easy. They are not easy!
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
They are so not easy that we as an industry have been working on them for 25 years or so and we've gotten, like, maybe 10% of the way to a solution! And people always accuse us of somehow just not doing the "obvious" solution (because we don't care, is the implication)
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
And they don't stop to think that maybe if no one in the entire industry is doing the "obvious" solution they just came up with in three seconds of thinking about the problem, it's because we already did, and either a) it made the problem worse --
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
-- or b) it didn't make the problem appreciably better and it had huge downsides for the service as a whole. There's also so much stuff that other sites are doing because of inertia or because they've always done it, but it's not the state of the art anymore because things have moved way on.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Working in T&S is miserable. It's soul-destroying, traumatizing, and full of horrors. The pay is terrible, the working conditions are awful, and very, very few companies give it anywhere near the credit they deserve. We sure as frick don't do it for any reason other than that we care, passionately.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Every person I know who works in T&S does so because they care so deeply and intensely about online community and people they're willing to put up with the constant exposure to beheading videos, the child s*x abuse, the animal torture, and the billion other ways people are awful to each other.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
People who don't care don't last. You need to have a reason to do this work, or else you won't ever psychologically survive it. It is infuriating when people insist that because someone doesn't solve an unsolvable problem, perfectly and immediately, that they're somehow The Enemy.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
I don't know Aaron personally beyond what he posts and the few conversations we've had, but even just from that, I can tell that he's an extremely thoughtful person who knows his shit and is genuinely working to balance a thousand different priorities while everything is on fire and also exploding.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Moderation is much like being the protagonist of "Edge of Tomorrow". You have no training, everything is on fire, exploding, or wants to kill you, you're trying to keep everyone alive, and you will do it all again & again until you can dance thru it while smiling, backwards, in high heels
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