HanoiVillan Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 7 hours ago, foreveryoung said: It shocks me facebook and twitter still allow this content to be posted. I mean there have been much worse than that posted, shocking torture stuff. I mean they cannot design algorithms to delete this sort of content within a certain time. Makes you think they want it on there to attract more people. I don't think an algorithm could detect that to be fair. I do agree with you though that they don't invest enough in content moderation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 16 hours ago, Stevo985 said: I’m not proud of it but I do have a kind of morbid fascination for videos like that. I wouldn’t say i enjoy them. Far from it. But I watch them rotten.com back in the day introduced me to some weird shit that like you say , is just kinda fascinating ... To an extent its no worse than watching the Zapruder film , you don't exactly enjoy it , you just watch it and kinda go "holy ****" I wouldn't go all Nightcrawler over such events , but there is that morbid curiosity / fascination with it , that would almost compel me watch "some" situations 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I have no curiosity. If someone sent me shit like that I would question our friendship. I live a sheltered existence with regards videos that I know I will never want to see, I don’t go looking for them and they don’t find me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 36 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: rotten.com back in the day introduced me to some weird shit that like you say , is just kinda fascinating ... To an extent its no worse than watching the Zapruder film , you don't exactly enjoy it , you just watch it and kinda go "holy ****" I wouldn't go all Nightcrawler over such events , but there is that morbid curiosity / fascination with it , that would almost compel me watch "some" situations Kinda related, but I’m find more and more videos popup on Facebook that are heavy gore, murder, violent or pornographic these last few weeks. Have they furloughed the censorship team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 12 minutes ago, Genie said: Kinda related, but I’m find more and more videos popup on Facebook that are heavy gore, murder, violent or pornographic these last few weeks. Have they furloughed the censorship team? Just your advertising algorithm at work there, Mr. Bundy. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 53 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: rotten.com back in the day introduced me to some weird shit that like you say , is just kinda fascinating ... same here's what happens if you flip off a 30ft sea wall but clip your face off the concrete kicker at the bottom...yeah im watching that video and looking at the photos after, full of regret but then click on to the next one 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Never ever received a single gore / murder / porn / brexit / Nazi / trump / beheading video or photo via facebook. Not one. Don’t want it. No need for it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 It’s strange isn’t it, the morbid curiosity that draws you towards clicking a video to watch something horrible. I’ve seen some nasty videos that make me feel sick (bad accidents, executions, deaths etc) and although I never go looking for them. If I see one online I’m always tempted to have a look. It’s not that I enjoy seeing these things and I’m not a psychopath, it’s just a curious urge to see something strange. Weird eh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 /r/watchpeopledie was one of the first subreddits of the day I'd look at when it was still around. Some utterly fascinating stuff on there. The Indian Train videos were ones I deemed 'safe', and would watch every time, from the point of view that it showed just how resilient the human body can be - at least in the short term! People who had been hit by a train and had very much been 'sliced' in half, but were alive. Some of the more infamous stuff on there I did have the misfortune of seeing - 'funky town' for example. I was a little more cautious with anything that appeared to relate to the cartel after that. Although I did regret seeing one in a South American Prison, where it's dark, there's some flame, sounds like there's a riot going on. A prisoner has something...melted on to him. Metal, maybe. Then he's murdered by two other inmates. It's the closest thing to hell on Earth I've ever seen. Industrial accidents also fascinated me - well, still continue to. A bit of /r/catastrophicfailure still fills the void to a point, but some of those videos from really tight confines, like oil rigs, really stick in my mind. The force of those machines is incredible versus the human body. I'll concede it's an obscene thing to say, but one I watched over and over again was in a factory with a huge printing press, or something like that. A guy goes through it. I couldn't say he was 'vaporised', but yeah, it's a puddle that comes out the other end. And then there's the general 'accident' stuff. Watching this kind of thing has certainly made me a much more careful person in a lot of ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 29, 2020 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Seat68 said: I have no curiosity. If someone sent me shit like that I would question our friendship. I live a sheltered existence with regards videos that I know I will never want to see, I don’t go looking for them and they don’t find me. To be honest again I’d be the same. Even though I have a fascination with it, I would have the mental capacity to know that sending those videos to someone is weird. So if someone sent them to me I’d still be like “why the **** are you sending me this?” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 57 minutes ago, GarethRDR said: Just your advertising algorithm at work there, Mr. Bundy. Haha, thing is, you watch a normal video on your news feed, then if you flick up on the phone it seems to give some more “exotic” videos which you watch and so on and so on . The query was really about the censorship at Facebook, it seems to have been abandoned in recent times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 At least yours is somewhat interesting, if I see another advert for some wanky epoxy-woodcraft creation I'll tear my eyeballs out. I can barely build a lego set, why does it think I need to see 1000 videos of someone making a credenza out of crayons? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 6 hours ago, GarethRDR said: At least yours is somewhat interesting, if I see another advert for some wanky epoxy-woodcraft creation I'll tear my eyeballs out. I can barely build a lego set, why does it think I need to see 1000 videos of someone making a credenza out of crayons? Today there was a Brazil carnival float full of naked ladies with some patterns painted on their bodies, then next was a video of an online/zoom aerobics class with lots of people partaking including 2 separate windows with naked middle aged men “enjoying” watching. There was also some woodwork videos, and Indian technology which doesn’t seem to include India or any technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 On posting errors. Not talking about anyone in particular Spoiler It's @mottaloo I'm on about, get him I remember early doors thinking starting a midweek fixtures thread would be ok in other football. Cue a barrage of unhappy 'youre not Keenan' type posts. Basically, i feel your pain brother. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted May 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 1, 2020 Top tip: When on a team zoom call and someone makes a pointless comment, please ensure you are on mute before sighing in an exasperated manner. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 48 minutes ago, Xela said: Top tip: When on a team zoom call and someone makes a pointless comment, please ensure you are on mute before sighing in an exasperated manner. I keep rolling my eyes and forgetting I have the cam on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Anyone thought a decent excuse to get out of an evening zoom quiz with friends or family yet? Please share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: It's HouseParty pub quiz night. West Indies Guinness. 11 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: Anyone thought a decent excuse to get out of an evening zoom quiz with friends or family yet? Please share. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 On 01/05/2020 at 17:01, Xela said: Top tip: When on a team zoom call and someone makes a pointless comment, please ensure you are on mute before sighing in an exasperated manner. I had a similar moment where I let out an incredibly loud and drawn out yawn, thinking I was muted during a "motivational" speech. A few seconds silence, an awkward continuation of the speech, and a few messages from colleagues pissing themselves. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 15 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: Anyone thought a decent excuse to get out of an evening zoom quiz with friends or family yet? Please share. I usually go with "I just really don't want to do that", but it might be why I don't get invited to many things. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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