But the new rules apply to patreon content at large, not just to games. There's more porn art patreons than porn game ones, I think. That would add a lot more time to these estimatives.
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"We have zero tolerance when it comes to the glorification of sexual violence which includes bestiality, rape, and child exploitation [...]
We also do not allow other fringe sexual fetish content, such as incest, necrophilia, or fetish content that is hard to distinguish from non-consensual sex.
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Lastly, you cannot sell pornographic material or arrange sexual service(s) as a reward for your patrons. We define pornographic material as real people engaging in sexual acts such as masturbation or sexual intercourse on camera. [...]"
Games and literature are clearly their first target here. Except people who are stupid enough to publicly display pictures/videos of his illegal actions.
This said, it's their site, they can do a lot of amazing things with it. A picture, video or link is added to a page flagged "adult content", unless there's a captcha, it can be automatically downloaded and added to the reviewing team's feed.
Seeing if a picture is "pornographic" or not don't take a lot of time. Tweak an open source image browser, and pictures will change every 3 seconds ; it's not really difficult to do and they are supposed to have good coders. Three seconds, iIt's enough to know if one picture need that you stop and look closely. For an 8 hours day of works, it's 9600 pictures that are reviewed by a single person.
For the videos, tweak an open source media player to automatically play 2 seconds then skip a whole minute , once again, not a difficult thing to do. Unless it's a really fast quicky, you'll not miss the action. One minute to see a whole 30 minutes video.
For the games, I already said it, 10 minutes is way enough for most of them. And for literature, the same, "parse it to find keywords, then review the digest", apply, so I'll go for 10 minutes.
Obviously, someone doing this will end crazy in no time. So you review pictures for an hour, then one hour sending warning and answering emails, one hour of video reviewing, followed by one hour of automated games reviewing. Again one hour of pictures reviewing, and you end the day with one hour of literature reviewing, followed by one hour of emails.
Put just four persons at this, and you still have your 9600 pictures/day, plus 120 hours of videos, 24 games and 24 "books" reviewed. They have a high number of creators, but honestly I have no clue of the average amount of daily updates.
Still I don't think that they have really more than this every days. To have 9600 pictures, you need 960 creators putting 10 in one go. Even with one update/week, as long as they have less than 6720 creators doing this, four people is enough to review all the pictures before the end of the week. As for the games, usually they are updated each month, so they need more than 720 creators to not finish at the end of the month ; it's more or less twice the number of living games available here.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if the process add a little delay each day. Even if at the end of a month they still have two/three days to see, it's not a problem. They don't plane to do this for their whole life. They purge the site and, once everyone comply or is banned, and the word is widely spread, they can go back to a simple random control.
All this said, still you aren't wrong. Like I said before, what I describe is the efficient way to do things, not the way they'll do it. They've probably chosen an alternate way, something between real automation and full manual reviewing.
And the more times they'll spend on it, the harder they'll want to enforce their rules, because, "when will they understand that we don't want this !!! We have other things to do than looking at those... 'things'."
Also there's the fact that, as observed, some people are enforcing the rules in a more hard way than others.
Are they ? And it's a real question.
I know that at first there were creators who've been hit way harder than other. Now that we are at the second step of their control, I still haven't seen someone being treated more gentle than the others. It doesn't mean that it haven't happened, I can have missed it, reason why I ask.
