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Well, what else might it be? Agadmator is just a chess channel. He does breakdowns of chess games and that’s pretty much it.

afavour 6y ago
The block was for “harmful and dangerous” content. That’s incredibly vague. Even describing a game using aggressive language could fall foul of such a broad filter. How many times do non-chess channels get caught in this filter? That’s the first question I’d be asking. I have to assume more than zero times. How many chess channels have not been banned by this filter? Again, presumably more than zero. And yet the article makes conclusions with a dataset of 1.
- deepnotderp 6y ago
  Have you watched adagmator? He doesn’t really use aggressive language
  - afavour 6y ago
    It was just an example. Another example: “bishop attacks king” could be interpreted as dangerous or harmful content. It’s so vague we have no idea.
DixieDev 6y ago
There are plenty of other chess channels using the words "black" and "white" to describe each side that have yet to be automatically and mysteriously banned. If it were as simple as usage of the word "black" in the various circumstances that might arise during a discussion about chess, surely some of those would have met the same fate, no?
- metiscus 6y ago
  You would think so. I can construct many sets of sentences that could appear in an excited chess commentary discussion that would probably run afoul of various automated censorship systems. ...and black steals a pawn from white here. White springs his trap and white is now crushing black on the back row. .. and we can see black is completely dominating white's position. White is getting killed by black here... .. and black now has white in a complete stranglehold.
  - aksss 6y ago
    ..black queen takes white bishop ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- arp242 6y ago
  The real problem, IMO, is that we're all left guessing what the reason is. YouTube has a gargantuan task moderating its content, and I don't expect them to be error-free in this: false positives will happen, and that's okay. But it's the complete lack of transparency, as well as some YouTubers having difficulty getting their accounts restored that's the real issue. Maybe he used some specific phrase that triggered something? Or maybe he used some words just a tad too often? Or maybe something else? No one seems to know...
- zests 6y ago
  Chess commentators might use various phrases that sound $COLOR-supremacist at different rates like "$COLOR is better" or "I prefer $COLOR".

afavour 6y ago

The block was for “harmful and dangerous” content. That’s incredibly vague. Even describing a game using aggressive language could fall foul of such a broad filter. How many times do non-chess channels get caught in this filter? That’s the first question I’d be asking. I have to assume more than zero times. How many chess channels have not been banned by this filter? Again, presumably more than zero. And yet the article makes conclusions with a dataset of 1.

deepnotderp 6y ago
Have you watched adagmator? He doesn’t really use aggressive language
- afavour 6y ago
  It was just an example. Another example: “bishop attacks king” could be interpreted as dangerous or harmful content. It’s so vague we have no idea.

DixieDev 6y ago

There are plenty of other chess channels using the words "black" and "white" to describe each side that have yet to be automatically and mysteriously banned. If it were as simple as usage of the word "black" in the various circumstances that might arise during a discussion about chess, surely some of those would have met the same fate, no?

metiscus 6y ago
You would think so. I can construct many sets of sentences that could appear in an excited chess commentary discussion that would probably run afoul of various automated censorship systems. ...and black steals a pawn from white here. White springs his trap and white is now crushing black on the back row. .. and we can see black is completely dominating white's position. White is getting killed by black here... .. and black now has white in a complete stranglehold.
- aksss 6y ago
  ..black queen takes white bishop ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
arp242 6y ago
The real problem, IMO, is that we're all left guessing what the reason is. YouTube has a gargantuan task moderating its content, and I don't expect them to be error-free in this: false positives will happen, and that's okay. But it's the complete lack of transparency, as well as some YouTubers having difficulty getting their accounts restored that's the real issue. Maybe he used some specific phrase that triggered something? Or maybe he used some words just a tad too often? Or maybe something else? No one seems to know...
zests 6y ago
Chess commentators might use various phrases that sound $COLOR-supremacist at different rates like "$COLOR is better" or "I prefer $COLOR".