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Unpopular opinion, given the sheer amount of content that gets uploaded to YouTube everyday, I think that in general, YouTube does an awesome job on moderating
by vfc1 7y ago
Unpopular opinion, given the sheer amount of content that gets uploaded to YouTube everyday, I think that in general, YouTube does an awesome job on moderating all that content and keeping the platform clean.
I don't remember at any time seeing in my home screen anything that was blatantly NSFW.
The combination of user flagging, manual human reviews and especially the content filtering algorithm works great, but of course, there will always be a small number of false negatives that will get highly publicized and used to trash the public image of YouTube in the mainstream media.
YouTube is maybe the best thing that has happened on the Internet since it's creation. You have a place to host videos for free on all topics, where people can freely share and exchange ideas at scale in a captivating format.
Most of the ads you get to see are much more relevant than what you get on TV, which thanks mostly to YouTube I have hardly watched in over a decade.
I think that judging YouTube just because Logan Paul has decided to taser a dead rat and only got a 15 days suspension is excessive.
- ciupicri 7y agoCouldn't care less about NFSW. YouTube is full of spam and click bait, but they don't seem to do anything about it. The top search results still include a lot of crap.
- colejohnson66 7y agoAs for clickbait: while bad, it’s not against the TOS
- ciupicri 7y agoFrom https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801973?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801973?hl=en > Spam, scams, and other _deceptive practices_ that take advantage of the YouTube community aren’t allowed on YouTube. Some click bait is in the deceptive practices category. For example if I see "Logan Paul Tases A Dead Rat" https://youtu.be/GsxYu8vHzBM https://youtu.be/GsxYu8vHzBM I'm expecting to see Paul tasing a rat, not a Power Point presentation on the subject.