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"Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of our newest game in partnership
with Engine.
Moderator Mayhem is a mobile, browser-based game that lets you
see how good a job you would do as a front line content moderator for a growing
technology company that hosts user-generated content (in the game, it’s a
“review” website that lets you review anything, not just businesses).
So much of the discussion lately around content moderation and trust & safety
doesn’t come from a place of any kind of actual experience with moderating
content and understanding the competing pressures, both internal and external,
towards allowing free speech, protecting user safety, and complying with
various laws and other factors.
A friend of mine in the trust & safety world once suggested that these
conversations would be a lot more useful if everyone had to spend a few days
moderating an actual community, and could learn how content moderation is not
about “suppressing viewpoints,” but almost always about understanding really
complex scenarios in which you have to make decisions in a very limited period
of time, with limited information, and where there may not be any “right”
answer.
Enter:
Moderator Mayhem. It’s a browser-based mobile game, and you will learn
that you have to make your moderation decisions by swiping left (take down) or
right (keep up), and try to align content with the policies of the company (a
fictional review site called TrustHive). Of course, users of your site may not
like your decisions. They might appeal the decisions, and you might realize you
missed some important context (or not!). Your manager might disagree with your
decisions, and might not think you’re suited for the job. Your CEO might have
his own views on how your moderation is going. So might the media."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
