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by intended 8 days ago
Overly dramatic?

I personally don’t quite find my day to be equanimous when I see pictures of gore, and this is after having to moderate gore and NSFW content.

I still have pretty clear recall of the dead baby images, or the people dying videos, or terror actions, that I saw years ago.

This crap stays with you. Moderators have ended up getting PTSD from their work.

Given the nature of the content, it was a pretty normal recounting to me.

What was the dramatic part from your perspective?

1 comments

Exactly. Those comments are either from total mentals, or people who don’t understand jobs like red teaming. There’s a reason it’s a high pay, high burnout job. The article seemed fairly normal recounting to me too, maybe a bit earnest? But I’m glad the people reviewing this stuff actually have a moral core and aren’t the dead-inside “wull achtually” would-be school shooters that many of the comment seem to come from.