Websites/Your Web/meetings/2011-09-27

Topic: Your Web Moderation

Attendees

• williamR
• cmore
• ckoehler
• winston
• raymond forbes

Agenda

This meeting is discuss moderation tools for the Your Web campaign that we plan to launch in November. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Your_Web Process for:

• moderation of photos that will be presented in a visualization
• moderation of copy that will be presented in visualization
• can we use mechanical turk - https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

Notes

Questions:

• Is there a time delay? No
• Does their submission show up immediately on the homepage? No, only to their own unique URL
• Does amazon mechanical turk work for non-en locales
• Could we send the user an alert when someone is reviewed and approved? Only if they provide an email.
• Should users be able to share it immediately? Yes
• Does the ability to share immediately outweigh the risk of something inappropriate being shared? Depends on how fast the moderation can happen.

Moderation methods:

• User flagged submissions that were previously approved
• Moderation queue of recent submissions
• Photos should be moderated first, second is the text. Photos are top priority.
• Nasty word filters for flagging text (can we use the black listed words that the LCD screens are using for tweets.

Vendors and case studies:

• https://requester.mturk.com/case_studies/cs/snapmylife
• http://www.contentmoderator.com/our-moderators

Security:

• create a new admin interface for this specific need

Action Items

• ckoehler to contact the vendors to discuss our requirements
• ckoehler to determine the price structure for 500k moderation requests, 1m moderation requests
• winston to check into legal/privacy on issues with a 3rd party vendors having access to our user's data
• williamR to set up a weekly meeting