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I upload unlisted videos to share with family. I batch and upload them on a monthly basis. Never had an issue with Youtube and my family videos. Last month one
by pgrote 8y ago
I upload unlisted videos to share with family. I batch and upload them on a monthly basis. Never had an issue with Youtube and my family videos. Last month one video was my daughter fully clothed in the bathroom dumping a cup of water on my son in the bathtub and both laughing. You could only see his head and chest. It was 10 seconds long and funny play between young siblings.
It was instantly and automatically flagged, removed and a strike placed against me for going against community guidelines. I had 40 characters to appeal, but it is automated since the response was instantaneous. There are other videos of kids dumping water on each other ... even when both are in the tub. An email asking what guideline I violated to youtube support has gone unanswered.
To me, if Youtube is automatically, instantly flagging my video, there is no reason they cannot automatically flag and remove the videos in Matt Watson's video, especially if they are public and are attracting a wide range of comments.
Don't get me wrong, it's Youtube's pool, so their rules. They can choose the content they want.
- brlewis 8y agoThey sure can. They removed a video of mine for copyright because of background music in the environment where I was shooting.
- freeflight 8y agoWhich is a completely different, and rather trivial, problem compared to "automatically detect the age of people in a video and/or if they are doing something sexual". The first is a mere process of comparison, while the latter requires quite a few levels of subjective abstraction.
- pgrote 8y ago> copyright because of background music I feel you. Many of my videos have been flagged for copyright violations due to background music, but since they are unlisted and only for sharing among family, I'm ok with it. There have been a couple of times they have muted a whole video for a snippet of music, but I've never had a video removed for music.
- stickfigure 8y agoThere seems to be something wrong with this argument. You're displeased that their algorithm is too sensitive and flagged your content as a false positive, right? But then you think they can apply the algorithm more broadly? Wouldn't that just risk many more false positives and irate users?
- pgrote 8y ago>You're displeased that their algorithm is too sensitive and flagged your content as a false positive, right? No. As I said, their rules. I have no idea if it is a false positive since I cannot get an answer as to what guideline was violated. I could have violated one of their guidelines. Youtube doesn't owe me anything ... I use their service for free with unlisted videos to share with family. They make no money off the videos. My point was if they can flag something like my video, I am sure they can flag the ones given as examples attracting the other people. I can understand your point that false positives would generate more upset content creators who do make their videos public and would like ads run against them.
- stickfigure 8y agoYou point out that there are similar videos in the system that aren't getting flagged, which makes a pretty good argument that the algorithm is random and ineffective.
- arkades 8y agoNo. He’s arguing that if the algorithm is capable of detecting his video, it is capable of finding others like it - so if google wanted to remove such videos categorically, it can and currently chooses not to.
- reaperducer 8y agoThe problem is that your videos are unlisted, so Google isn't making enough money from them. If you posted them publicly so Google could properly monetize them, they'd be "Featured videos of the month!" in a pedo group.