There is a rather serious article on Slashdot about unprepared minds being traumatized when working as a content moderator. There are a lot of sick people around, when they fancy their fancies, any sane person should be as far as possible. But that understanding is always easy coming. As it is often said: “Some things cannot be unseen”, and you should think carefully before agreeing to see such things.
On a lighter note, with a subject like this, Slashdot is pretty much guaranteed to have some funny comments. Here is one that made me smile:
The problem is that most 20 year old kids don’t really know how sensitive they are to things like this until they’re repeatedly exposed to them, by which point much of the damage has already been done. Luckily for me, I was exposed to the Internet and all of the nastiness on it when I was only 13, and I’ve managed to get by with no ill effects at all except for the occasional extended blackout followed by a dead hooker in my bed. Some more sensitive people might really lose their minds, though.