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I just glibly pointed out that I probably know more about people on #Dating Sites than just about anyone.

Then I realised that it's almost certainly true.

#ShootMeNow

2025-02-14 Update: I have been a little active in that area recently, turning #whistleblower (again!) to expose issues with my former employer. I spent years fighting for #User #Safety from the inside and failed. Hopefully, this will do something.

#Guardian: https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f eb/13/tinder-hinge-match-investigation

#DemocracyNow: https://youtu.be/h5BqIuNHhVo?si=07aVEO 4KutOZ5Kof

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I just glibly pointed out that I probably know more about people on #Dating Sites than just about anyone.

Then I realised that it's almost certainly true.

#ShootMeNow

2025-02-14 Update: I have been a little active in that area recently, turning #whistleblower (again!) to expose issues with my former employer. I spent years fighting for #User #Safety from the inside and failed. Hopefully, this will do something.

#Guardian: https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f eb/13/tinder-hinge-match-investigation

#DemocracyNow: https://youtu.be/h5BqIuNHhVo?si=07aVEO 4KutOZ5Kof

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A secondary #introduction for #DoctorWho followers :)

I spent about 5 years doing 50%+ of the content moderation for the #BBC's #DoctorWho, #TopGear and #BBCEarth #Facebook and #YouTube sites. It made me hate all of them, sadly.

I always liked #DoctorWho in the 70s and 80s, but once you have spent 8 hours a day, every day, for years listening to every fan theory, episode opinion and creepy Tenant & Rose lust story - No - It got so bad I couldn't even watch them any more.

#TrustAndSafety

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A secondary #introduction for #DoctorWho followers :)

I spent about 5 years doing 50%+ of the content moderation for the #BBC's #DoctorWho, #TopGear and #BBCEarth #Facebook and #YouTube sites. It made me hate all of them, sadly.

I always liked #DoctorWho in the 70s and 80s, but once you have spent 8 hours a day, every day, for years listening to every fan theory, episode opinion and creepy Tenant & Rose lust story - No - It got so bad I couldn't even watch them any more.

#TrustAndSafety

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I tend to make myself unpopular in #TrustAndSafety circles these days, and for some reason people no longer invite me to talk at conferences.

One reason is the idiotic name. One department can't be responsible for #Trust AND #Safety. In wide terms both are the responsibility of the whole company, but the best that Customer Experience and Policy team can hope to do is to try hard to lead both. It fails when the Product team, Marketing or a Meglomaniac CEO decide to do their own things.

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I tend to make myself unpopular in #TrustAndSafety circles these days, and for some reason people no longer invite me to talk at conferences.

One reason is the idiotic name. One department can't be responsible for #Trust AND #Safety. In wide terms both are the responsibility of the whole company, but the best that Customer Experience and Policy team can hope to do is to try hard to lead both. It fails when the Product team, Marketing or a Meglomaniac CEO decide to do their own things.

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An AND Gate showing that if perceived Trust is zero, then no amount of safety will help. The result is always "Fuck all!".

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#introduction

Managing online #Policy, #Security, #Moderation, #T&S, #Operations, #Compliance, #Governance, #Safety, #DEI, and #Ethics for 40 years now.

I released the first self-hosted #Mud (#AberMud) into the world under #Opensource, co-ran the first #IRC server out of Finland and remain IRC's longest serving operator.

I quit #OkCupid after 9 years as their head of User Safety & Governance and now I'm accidentally studying #ageism in tech.

1st Interview in 20 years: https://bit.ly/michael-lawrie

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#introduction

Managing online #Policy, #Security, #Moderation, #T&S, #Operations, #Compliance, #Governance, #Safety, #DEI, and #Ethics for 40 years now.

I released the first self-hosted #Mud (#AberMud) into the world under #Opensource, co-ran the first #IRC server out of Finland and remain IRC's longest serving operator.

I quit #OkCupid after 9 years as their head of User Safety & Governance and now I'm accidentally studying #ageism in tech.

1st Interview in 20 years: https://bit.ly/michael-lawrie

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@stokes Become? I have been complaining about how much worse the Internet has been becoming for a long time :)

Here's one I wrote in 1992: http://lorry.org/Docs/life.cycle

And one I wrote in 1995: http://shonky.systems/Docs/fod.html

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@stokes Become? I have been complaining about how much worse the Internet has been becoming for a long time :)

Here's one I wrote in 1992: http://lorry.org/Docs/life.cycle

And one I wrote in 1995: http://shonky.systems/Docs/fod.html