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patrickokeefe

@patrickokeefe@mastodon.social

20+ years in online community, moderation, trust, and safety. Plenty of work in retention, news, streaming, and product, too. You can hire me!

Ex-CNN. Mentor, NEW INC. Host, https://mastodon.social/@communitysignal. Author, Managing Online Forums. He/him.

Based in Hollywood, California. https://mastodon.social/@patrickokeefe on Twitter.

#OnlineCommunities #ContentModeration #TrustAndSafety #Product #ProductManagement #Author #Cmgr #CommunityManagement #CNN #NewsProduct #Moderation #Community #Hollywood #LosAngeles

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patrickokeefe, to trustandsafety
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Re: Forum/community/UGC platforms selling data to AI/LLM companies to learn on.

I've owned and operated forums (and other spaces with UGC) since 1999. I have millions of pieces of content covering specific verticals in databases, written by people who are smart and deeply interested in those verticals. Some are from closed communities, some are live.

patrickokeefe, to HipHop
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Happy 50th birthday, hip-hop!

I went digging through my old photos and videos, and here's some of my (often blurry) favorite moments in honor of the day.

  1. Me with Slick Rick at Amoeba Hollywood, April 2019.

  2. Me at the NAS concert at the NorVa, Norfolk, VA, November 2012. Credit: djlilysdad.

Patrick at in the crowd of a Nas concert.

patrickokeefe, to random
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The Greatest Night in Pop is out now on Netflix, covering the one night only recording of 1985's star-studded charity single, "We Are the World." There are so many small, fun details in the interactions between the artists on the song, that were caught on camera. I enjoyed it.

From the Netflix doc team, including my wife.

patrickokeefe, to random
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Take Care of Maya is out today on Netflix, examining "a family's distressing journey within a flawed healthcare industry while exposing deep fissures in the child welfare system." It's a hard watch, especially for parents.

From Netflix's doc film team, including my wife.

patrickokeefe, to random
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Simple truth: When you say "nazis welcome," more of them show up. Sooner or later, that's all your platform is known for. And when you're allowing nazis to raise funding via your platform, with you joining in the profits, that reality will come even more quickly.

https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343

patrickokeefe, (edited ) to random
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There is this moment in Netflix's WHAM! documentary where Elton John is presenting George Michael with an award in 1985, and John offers this effusive praise of both him and Wham! It was a touching, validating moment for Michael, who had idolized John since he was a kid.

patrickokeefe, to baseball
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The Saint of Second Chances, "the true story of a family of baseball hustlers," is out now on Netflix, narrated by Jeff Daniels, and featuring Charlie Day.

From the doc film team, including my wife. ⚾🎞️

▶️ https://netflix.com/thesaintofsecondchances

patrickokeefe, to random
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Scouts Honor is out today on Netflix. The documentary "exposes how the Boy Scouts of America buried a staggering number of sexual abuse reports over multiple decades, causing untold damage."

From the doc film team, including my wife.

netflix.com/scoutshonor

patrickokeefe, (edited ) to Disneyland
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Photo dump from Patrick's first trip to Disneyland last month. His first ride was Haunted Mansion, and he was a big fan of Redd the pirate.

He also met Doctor Strange and Mickey Mouse and charmed his way into a free light-up toy by smiling and waving at a lady who came back a minute later and asked if he'd like it.

patrickokeefe, to random
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In the weeks leading up to watching the film American Symphony, I had been thinking about American patriotism and what it meant to me. There are times in my life where I have felt patriotism for my country. But since 2015 or so, those moments have felt few and far between.

patrickokeefe, to random
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"... Sly will change the way you view Stallone, and his approach to film, in a surprising way and is a brilliant watch." -Rachel Leishman, The Mary Sue

Sly is out today, from the Netflix doc team, including my wife.

netflix.com/sly

https://www.themarysue.com/sly-review-sylvester-stallone-netflix/

patrickokeefe, to random
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Conspiracy theorists tend to out themselves because they can't help eventually blaming the Jews.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/15/robert-kennedy-jr-covid-conspiracy/

patrickokeefe, to random
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"Managing Online Forums" is 16 years old today. I started writing it 5 years before that. At first, I didn't know I had a book. Pitching it myself, I signed with a small independent press, and then they dropped me. I got an agent (rest in peace, Neil), and literally every single publisher said no, except for 1. And even that one only came back after several months of having it in a file.

patrickokeefe, to twitter
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I mean, does it really matter if you can just steal any username you want?

https://mashable.com/article/xai-twitter-handle-elon-musk-x

patrickokeefe, to random
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It's that time of year, baby!

patrickokeefe, to random
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Merry Christmas. 🎄☮️

Kara, Patrick, and their son, Patrick, with Lightning McQueen at the Cozy Cone (decorated for the holidays) Disney's California Adventure.
Kara, Patrick, and their son, Patrick, in front of a Christmas tree.
Patrick holding hands with his son, Patrick, facing away from the camera.

patrickokeefe, to twitter
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Elon Musk claiming he'll get rid of Twitter's blocking feature is silly, but it doesn't have anything to do with Apple's app store guidelines. A lot of well-meaning folks are misreading the guidelines, believing that if you allow user-generated content in an app, you have to give users the ability to block other users.

Quick thread...

patrickokeefe, to Parenting
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As the childproofing war rages on with no end in sight, the sides have reached a critical new low: Toilet locks have been purchased.

patrickokeefe, to PersonalFinance
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For anyone looking to flexibly maximize a bit of cash, Fidelity has a great savings offer right now tied to their Bloom app.

If you sign up, complete your account, and deposit $50, they'll give you $105 ($100 for the deposit, $5 for account setup). Not only that, but they will give you an annual savings match of 10% on your first $300 of deposits for the year.

More details in thread...

patrickokeefe, to blogging
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You can now block OpenAI's web crawler from using your website to train the models used by ChatGPT.

This should have happened sooner. It is also not retroactive. Whatever they already have - they are keeping, for now.

For the time being, I've decided to block them from my own writing as well as the online communities that I manage.

Thread to follow...

patrickokeefe, to random
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3 of the 4 members of my team at CNN have found work. One more to go!

The last member is experienced in community management and moderation, with time spent in the news, language learning, and gaming industries. He's led teams, managed volunteers, and dealt with external and internal communities. He's done all of the things that come with community work.

patrickokeefe, to stackoverflow
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This Stack Overflow/OpenAI news is an absolute disaster and a dark day in the history of online communities.

It's hard to read this as anything other than Stack Overflow being desperate for cash. Reports are already surfacing about how badly they handled it, and I expect that will only worsen.

patrickokeefe, (edited ) to random
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Netflix just released their Global Top 10 for January 29-February 4, and the NUMBER ONE ENGLISH FILM IN THE WORLD is The Greatest Night in Pop, with nearly 20 million hours viewed.

It was in the top 10 in 68 countries, and was the #1 film in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Sweden. It has also been well-reviewed, with a 97% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Congrats to everyone involved, including the Netflix doc team (and my wife)!

patrickokeefe, to earthquake
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Wow! Big earthquake in Hollywood just now. Longest one I've felt in my 6+ years here.

patrickokeefe, to random
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I give away strategy ideas all the time. Not just in public, but for free on 1-to-1 calls and in messages. Once upon a time, I worried more about people taking my ideas. But as I've stacked the years, I've come to realize that there isn't much point in regarding your ideas as magical because someone probably already had that idea. Ideas are pretty cheap.

Ultimately, if you can execute, that's what matters.

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