Think of the most disgusting things you've stumbled across online. Now imagine viewing the stuff that nightmares are made of--hate crimes, torture, child abuse--in living color, from 9 to 5 every day. That's the work of Internet content moderators, who get paid to filter out that kind of material so you don't have to see it pop up on a social network or photo-sharing site. Demand for the work is growing, especially as more Web-based services enable users to post pictures instantly from their mobile devices.
"Obviously it's not the job for everyone," says Stacey Springer, vice president of operations at Caleris. The West Des Moines, Iowa, company's 55 content moderation employees scan up to 7 million images every day for some 80 different clients. "Some people might take it personally if they have a child and see images of children that might be sensitive to them, or if they see animal cruelty."
Caleris content reviewers receive free counseling as well as benefits including health insurance, but for some the psychological scars don't heal easily.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/technology/19screen.html It seems like these people review images flagged as inappropriate by users of whatever website. Most is of course explicitly sexual or violent. I'm going to start flagging happy photos, of stuff like flowers and puppies, just to give these poor people a little break.
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