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both are pretty bad options. Better to let users curate and allow popularity to dictate visibility, surely?
by beaconstudios 8y ago
both are pretty bad options. Better to let users curate and allow popularity to dictate visibility, surely?
- krapp 8y agoUser curation and popularity are, arguably, just as much forms of censorship as any other, although a "trusted user" curation system similar to Steam might be interesting. The only truly unbiased system would be random.
- beaconstudios 8y agothat only really holds if you consider "not promoting" to be a form of censorship - at the end of the day, as long as they're not actively hiding content that YouTube finds to not be "quality" (while still being reasonable content), it can still be found by someone looking for the subject. I don't see an issue with that - there will always be limited space for "promoted" content.
- LandR 8y agoThen YouTube risks things being popular that aren't aligned with it's collective politcal views.
- beaconstudios 8y agoThat's already the case, libertarian and conservative content is more popular than progressive content on YouTube.