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Maybe you need people who are just numb to it? It seems like the kind of gig that would attract the kinds of people who like seeing it. I know that's morbid to think about but look at subreddits like RIP /r/watchpeopledie, /r/enoughinternet, morbidreality is still around luckily. You get people who don't mind the gore and terrible things, pay them to sift through it, and see what the outcome is there?

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I'm fairly sure the content FB mods have to sift through makes those subreddits seem like a walk in the park. Even I have seen some horrible things back in the earlier days of the internet that makes those look tame.

There is no upper bound in repulsiveness for the things FB mods watch. At least with Reddit there's the sitewide rules.

Maybe for gore. For child abuse images, not so much.

I can only imagine the aghast looks one would get from the PR and HR people, just for asking about forming a team of people who liked looking at child abuse images!

The conversation might go better if you framed it as paying the members of that team less than they'd get in comparable jobs with less child abuse.

Not necessarily being numb to it, but surely you would need something to ground yourself with, should the need arise. Certainly there is always something that tends to stick, even if you pretend that it doesn't phase you.

I think realization of the fact that the internet connects everyone and no matter what you espouse, someone will call you names for it, can indeed help with emotional responses to content.

Even people who frequent these subreddits don't use them from 9-5 without pause and they still have moderation going on.

Imagine seeing the worst of these subs for 8 hours with only a short lunch break.

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