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Ham-fisted is right. This is going to kill family vloggers, or even just vloggers who happen to have a family in the background. YouTube is a lot less engaging
by wizzard 8y ago
Ham-fisted is right. This is going to kill family vloggers, or even just vloggers who happen to have a family in the background. YouTube is a lot less engaging when you don’t feel like you can interact with the creators or other viewers. I know everyone trots our the “YouTube comments are a toxic cesspool and provide no value” trope, but almost every video I watch on YT 1) has a kid in it somewhere, 2) has worthwhile and positive comments.
It’s like the joke about nuking your house from orbit because you saw a spider. Personally I’m far more concerned about the creepy videos aimed at kids than I am about pedos leaving hobo signs in the comments. As another commenter said, they’ll just move to a separate site to link to videos. You can’t stop them from watching videos and sharing them with other people unless you shut the site down completely.
- ehsankia 8y agoDo we know if that's the final solution? To me it seems more like a short term plug solution until they can train specialized models and adapt their moderation. I see no signs that this is the final long term solution to the problem.
- rococode 8y agoYou're right, they've said as much: > Hi there--this was a temporary action to protect the safety of minors while we work to improve our tools that detect & remove predatory comments. https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1100488813854351360 https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1100488813854351360 I'm sure they're just as aware as we are that disabling comments kills the community and engagement around many channels; they just needed a way to stave off the controversy for a little while. It's a blunt solution but as a temporary solution it seems fine as long as they can roll out a better solution before content creators are irrevocably hurt.