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Why doesn't YouTube community-source the content tags? I see a "report" button, but nothing that allows me, as an audience, to decide what category this video b
by adamredwoods 7y ago
Why doesn't YouTube community-source the content tags? I see a "report" button, but nothing that allows me, as an audience, to decide what category this video belongs in. I see tags such as "gaming" but no other tags to further delineate to sub-groups of "gaming". For such a large platform, I don't see a way to filter content accurately. I wonder if they rely too much on "recommended for you" algorithms.
- pvankessel 7y agoThat's actually why we had to come up with our own topic typology in this report - some of the category tags that YouTube provides were too broad to be useful ("TV Shows") and others were way too specific ("Music of Latin America")
- lostlogin 7y agoMusic of Latin America seem pretty broad.
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- giancarlostoro 7y agoTo my understanding the content uploader sets those tags / categories. Maybe then old abandoned YouTube accounts might get more visibility to their videos since the community can proper label videos.
- skybrian 7y agoProbably because it would be gamed for SEO purposes? Not that it's impossible, but crowd-sourcing stuff is not that easy at scale.