Category Archives: Moderation

Moving Pixels Podcast: A Fireside Chat with ‘Fat, Ugly, or Slutty?’

I love the good people at Fat, Ugly, or Slutty. They’re the sort of internet vigilantism that anyone can participate in. It might not be polite, calling out trolls, stalkers and creepazoids on Xbox Live and PSN, but check out a few of their posts and I think you’ll agree they entirely deserve it. We [...]

‘don’t take it personally’: Identity Performance and Surveillance Culture

Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. In my day job I moderate for an online kids’ game. I’ve written about this before, mainly in relation to knowledge toolsets and pedagogy, but if there is one aspect to my work which bears the closest resemblance to Christine Love’s lauded visual novel don’t take it personally, babe, it [...]

Hazard Pay

Apparently I’ve grossed some people out with out-of-context tweets about the more unpalatable aspects of my day job. The hazards of 140 characters and never being sure if someone is coming into your rants midstream, I suppose. Let me set the record straight in one respect, at least: I have a dirty job. Don’t get [...]

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