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Google Maps is crowd sourcing business and location data. I wonder if YouTube couldn't do the same, rewarding (like Maps does) YouTube Red subscriptions for eno
by humanrebar 9y ago
Google Maps is crowd sourcing business and location data. I wonder if YouTube couldn't do the same, rewarding (like Maps does) YouTube Red subscriptions for enough effort.
Then they could have more granular controls in clients, like saying "Block videos where at least half of the crowd say there is sexual content".
- wolco 9y agoThe problem you might have is that most who search for terms that would bring up similiar results will have a vested interest in sexual content and will produce false flags
- katastic 9y agoNot to mention when you can crowdsource banning content, competitors will intentionally flag content that competes.
- humanrebar 9y agoI didn't say banning content. I suggested categorization. Like the categories in the detailed MPAA breakdowns ("violence", "sexual content", "language", etc.). Maps asks more opinionated questions as well. YouTube alternatives would include "Good for kids", "Funny", "Good on a small screen", and things like that.
- int_19h 9y agoWhat do you do when people flag random things they don't like as "sexual content", solely so that they would be less visible?
- humanrebar 9y agoSame things you do if someone puts the wrong business hours in the Google maps databases.
- andrewflnr 9y agoI'm starting to like this idea better. It's at least an approach that isn't yet a proven failure. You can probably get some mileage out of weighting reliable users more heavily than randos, being smart about what thresholds constitute sufficient evidence, etc. Existing systems are definitely good at that sort of thing.
- humanrebar 9y agoI was thinking the users could set their own thresholds, just like they do when searching with date and resolution ranges.