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Facebook: no fetish , sex toys or sex cartoons in any form! Crushed heads are OK

The old story continues (see related posts), but from a different perspective – some news from the inside.

After a few weeks of training, Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year guy from Morocco, worked as a content moderator for $1 an hour. His job was to view a stream of reported pictures, videos and post and either confirm deletion, unconfirm or escalate to a Facebook employee.

If in doubt – consult the one page cheat-sheet (attached). The full document is included below. Some interesting bullet points. The following is a definite no-no:
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Facebook police, Facebook policy and Facebook privacy

Oooops… FB did it again. This also explains how we were booted off FB (see Facebook – end of story)

A surprising security hole in Facebook allows almost anyone to see pictures marked as private.

“The bug allowed anyone to view a limited number of another user’s most recently uploaded photos irrespective of the privacy settings for these photos,” Facebook said in a statement. “Upon discovering the bug, we immediately disabled the system, and will only return functionality once we can confirm the bug has been fixed.”

The issue stems from the site’s own reporting system, which Facebook has designed to give users power to police each other.
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Facebook – end of story

Updated on Jul 20, 2011 @01:44:

Even Atsuko Kudo was deleted! Unbelievable… Facebook admins (or managers?) are idiots…

Thanks to @Overchief

Updated on Jul 19, 2011 @13:00:

Nevertheless I decided to give Facebook another chance. I registered under a pretty existing name, created a company page, even activated my nick using my cell phone, acquired ~650 friends (almost two times less then earlier). And guess what? Yesterday my account was deleted again.

This time I’m not going to ask for the reason, I do not care. Facebook proved to be absolutely useless. Not many visits, no conversations, no comments. Much-much less than during my first FB period. Users “disappear” faster than “reappear”. Just huge Firefox load.

I think Facebook has passed the peak of popularity. The popularity I can not explain. So far only two social networks continue to “deliver”: professional LinkedIn (mostly used in US and NL) and LiveJournal (in RU). Tumbler is good for finding new photos, Twitter for breaking news and live events.

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Facebook is down

Facebook is down since 20-30 minutes ago. That may affect performance worldwide. For example, the “Like” buttons are actually frames with content downloaded from Facebook. And since it’s down, such buttons will delay the page downloading.

Another side effect is Twitter, which is overloaded and even down in some countries. What a chain reaction…

See also Like Ra on social networks