Adrian Chen: Executive Summary

Adrian Chen first makes acknowledgement of what a moderator actually is with respect to the internet. As Chen states, “Moderators are, by definition, forces for stability and civility in the raucous digital realm”(Chen, 2015). As the author goes on, she talks about how the moderators are treated within the company and how they differ from other employees. In retrospect, moderators are the absolute heart of keeping a forum alive without protestors and extremists overloading the websites comments. She contrasts about the unpaid being the key word in unpaid volunteer moderators and thus they can change the ethics and deliberately stay away from conforming to everyone else standards in the internet world. Adrian expands moderators into being …show more content…
The two intertwine with each other from the aspect of the moderators would be considered a cool media within the internet because moderators are high in participation and use more than one sense to determine what is considered socially right and wrong to post(McLuhan, 1969). Although moderators are suppose to be known throughout the company and can even be considered the heart behind websites, the article by Adrian Chen expands on the employees not feeling appreciated by their bosses and even like they don’t exist, but, with the story of ‘The Reddit Revolt’ plays a role in technology being an extension of man because if a moderator were to give up their technology then the internet in particular would end up in chaos and confusion as the they would not be doing their job to ensure the evil comments and the unneeded photos that are shared were deleted quickly and efficiently(Chen, …show more content…
Not only did the moderators feel unappreciated but as Marshall McLuhan would take on the situation, the technology become the extension of man therefore it wasn’t even noticed as a job to take part in because they would have assumed it to be a necessity that was always going to be there and that is why the example of ‘The Reddit Revolt’ is important and the bosses need to be self aware of the extension of technology from man itself(McLuhan, 1969). By using not only the binary but using the repetitions of the words, ‘moderators’ and ‘Reddit,’ the authors thesis includes how the Internet as we know it could not exist without moderators and especially how the internets website owners and bosses tend to under appreciate the work their moderators do for the good of the company. However, the bosses from website forums were taught to appreciate their moderators after ‘The Reddit Revolt’ and were shown what life would be like without the precise work from the moderators behind the