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For the sake of putting things in consistent terms. 7,000 videos a day works out to just under 5 videos every minute. Assuming each video averages about 12 mi

For the sake of putting things in consistent terms. 7,000 videos a day works out to just under 5 videos every minute. Assuming each video averages about 12 minutes in length, 1 hour of video is uploaded to xHamster every minute. Put another way, Youtube has to moderate 300x the amount of content. I suspect (but do not know) that Youtube also has 300x the userbase and can possibly afford 300x the moderation.

Invictus0 7y ago
It is not clear that Youtube is profitable at all, although no information has been forthcoming on the subject since 2015, from what I can gather.
- grenoire 7y ago
  Perhaps also the reason why they have been coming up with subscription models and paid shows?
natalyarostova 7y ago
I feel like porn moderation is a more trivially binary choice: Legal vs. illegal, in a way that is crisp, clear, and clearly legislated. Whereas what about weird videos that try to sell products to kids under the age of 5? What about anti-semites? What about subtle racism (Is that even something we want to moderate?) What about bullying? The moderation space, and connectivity between peers, is orders of magnitude larger on youtube. Hours of content controlled for.
- nickodell 7y ago
  >What about anti-semites? What about subtle racism (Is that even something we want to moderate?) It's not clear to me that xHamster actually tries to remove that from their site. I wonder if this is just a case where the media reports about racist content on YouTube or Facebook, but not on porn websites, so comparatively it looks like porn sites are doing a great job moderating.
  - Brian_K_White 7y ago
    I think that was their point. Xhampster only has a relatively few and relatively easily identified and relatively clearly defined things to look for, compared to youtube and faceebook and others, which have a universe of nebulous things to try to identify. xhampster (probably) doesn't even try to figure out if something is subtly antisemetic or anything like that. If it doesn't have kids or an actual not-faked death in it, then it's ok.

Invictus0 7y ago

It is not clear that Youtube is profitable at all, although no information has been forthcoming on the subject since 2015, from what I can gather.

grenoire 7y ago
Perhaps also the reason why they have been coming up with subscription models and paid shows?

natalyarostova 7y ago

I feel like porn moderation is a more trivially binary choice: Legal vs. illegal, in a way that is crisp, clear, and clearly legislated. Whereas what about weird videos that try to sell products to kids under the age of 5? What about anti-semites? What about subtle racism (Is that even something we want to moderate?) What about bullying? The moderation space, and connectivity between peers, is orders of magnitude larger on youtube. Hours of content controlled for.

nickodell 7y ago
>What about anti-semites? What about subtle racism (Is that even something we want to moderate?) It's not clear to me that xHamster actually tries to remove that from their site. I wonder if this is just a case where the media reports about racist content on YouTube or Facebook, but not on porn websites, so comparatively it looks like porn sites are doing a great job moderating.
- Brian_K_White 7y ago
  I think that was their point. Xhampster only has a relatively few and relatively easily identified and relatively clearly defined things to look for, compared to youtube and faceebook and others, which have a universe of nebulous things to try to identify. xhampster (probably) doesn't even try to figure out if something is subtly antisemetic or anything like that. If it doesn't have kids or an actual not-faked death in it, then it's ok.