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Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered about who the people are that

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Speaker 1: run all those Facebook groups that you're part of. Auckland

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Speaker 1: Flatmates and flats Wanted as a booming Facebook page with

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Speaker 1: over two hundred thousand members, but all the work of

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Speaker 1: blocking out scams, approving posts that got too much for

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Speaker 1: one ad They got too much for one admin who

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Speaker 1: proposed a fee for posting in the group. After a

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Speaker 1: widespread black backlash which followed, the admin has paused the

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Speaker 1: page and that has left flat Hunter's panicked and with

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Speaker 1: us With us now is one of the other admins

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Speaker 1: from the Facebook page, and he has agreed to speak

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Speaker 1: with us anonymously. And good afternoon, Good afternoon, So how

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Speaker 1: much did you want to charge for a post on

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Speaker 1: the page? And what was going to happen with the money?

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Speaker 2: We are for a three dollar fee, whereby we said

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Speaker 2: one dollar will go into charity for Auckland Starship Hospital

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Speaker 2: and the rest of the money to help meant to

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Speaker 2: put in more time to manage and maintain the group,

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Speaker 2: as well as be able to pay internet bills that

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Speaker 2: we used to keep the group that we have been

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Speaker 2: actively running it for the last ten years plus.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so how many of Edmunds are there and how

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Speaker 1: much time do you spend on it?

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Speaker 2: It's three, it's three. So basically we all have jobs,

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Speaker 2: so we on line here and there at work, at home,

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Speaker 2: so wherever we are, even if we are not we

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Speaker 2: are not at home, we have to use our personal

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Speaker 2: internet while we're out there and about to go on

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Speaker 2: the group to screen messages, accept and all of that.

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Speaker 2: So it's not like we have a specific time to

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Speaker 2: go on there when we're at home. Were on there

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Speaker 2: where we are work, when we had a chance, we

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Speaker 2: go on there when we're out with family. We still

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Speaker 2: as the group.

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Speaker 1: You never escape it, right? How many posts are we

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Speaker 1: talking per day that you'd have to moderate?

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Speaker 2: Usually sometimes we can get like thirty or forty a

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Speaker 2: DD but out of all the thirty forty you will

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Speaker 2: likely approve maybe ten fifteen because most of it are

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Speaker 2: scam scam ads or scam posts that they try to

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Speaker 2: get in. So we have to read through every person

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Speaker 2: who have put in a request to posts before we.

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Speaker 1: Approved, and as that including you having to moderate the

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Speaker 1: comments as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, correct, okay, so you put some of the coments yes, right,

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Speaker 2: Because we have decided to actually shut it down because

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Speaker 2: when we ask for a fee to give us the

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Speaker 2: ability to put in more time because this group have

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Speaker 2: been very helpful and very high to mand with people

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Speaker 2: trying to find a rental and all of that. So

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Speaker 2: we have put in a whole lot of time, but

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Speaker 2: people don't see all of that.

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Speaker 1: Would actually, why did you keep going with it when

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Speaker 1: it got so big? I mean, because it just sounds

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Speaker 1: like it's a John Hessel.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you Because the person who created their group

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Speaker 2: was once a homeless in any situation. Why where he

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Speaker 2: was homeless, that's when he created the group in order

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Speaker 2: not to see anyone else fall in the situation where

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Speaker 2: they have nowhere to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Any chance you're going to get any chance you're going

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Speaker 1: to get the page back up and running, because it

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Speaker 1: sounds like a lot of people rely on it. If

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Speaker 1: you've got those.

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Speaker 2: There is a lot And even though it's possible, we

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Speaker 2: still receive private messages from people who come through our

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Speaker 2: personal Facebook that are acting us to allow them to

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Speaker 2: advertise or to run. Even we had a few people

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Speaker 2: that offered if people see all the page, but we

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Speaker 2: don't think it's something that we should sell it. We

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Speaker 2: seem fully ask for fee to give us also the

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Speaker 2: term to put in more time to screen all and

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Speaker 2: try to do whatever you can get this cam out

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Speaker 2: of it. That's the whole point. People just really don't

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Speaker 2: see the effort we put in there so that a

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Speaker 2: man decided to just shut it down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I can understand that. You've got to be

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Speaker 1: a thank you. I really appreciate your time. You've got

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Speaker 1: to be a laton for punishment on that one. For

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