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The Life of a Comment Moderator for a Right-Wing Website

For six years, from 2012 to 2018, my job was to read and delete the most inappropriate comments on a conservative news site. Not all the inappropriate comments. Just the most inappropriate comments. Hundreds of comments an hour. Thousands of comments a day. Tens of thousands of comments a week. More than a million comments a year.

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  • AdelleChattre
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    FTA:

    In case you’re curious about what called for deletion, here are the guidelines: Anything that was overtly racist, sexist, homophobic or violent had to be deleted. Along with spam. So much spam. [...]

    I think that’s why they let comment moderators work from home. Nobody wants to work next to the guy who’s quietly weeping at his desk.

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