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I reported crypto scams targeting a spacex audience many times over the last week. Reported as misleading/scam and do not recommend channel. Would refresh the

by shirro 5y ago

I reported crypto scams targeting a spacex audience many times over the last week. Reported as misleading/scam and do not recommend channel. Would refresh the front page and would get another scam in first position. Either Youtube is using me as unpaid labour to detect scams because its automated systems are rubbish or their systems are very broken. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they count reporting as user engagement and promote even more shit my way. Having paid for premium/red/whatever youtube since it was available to avoid advertising I am seriously considering if it is worth continuing as a lot of tech/edu youtubers are duplicating their content to other platforms.

n4bz0r 5y ago
> Would refresh the front page and would get another scam in first position I have a suspicion that their system simply doesn't reconstruct recommendation lists instantly. I've been marking a lot of videos (of certain channels) as "not interested" in the past, and remember having the same frustration. The videos wouldn't go away after a page refresh. But after about a day or two you'd stop getting videos from unwanted channels if you're persistent enough with your marking, and if you don't click very similar videos from other channels or videos from the same channel (even accidentally). They react much faster to what you do watch. The processing of data about what you do not want to watch is seemingly of much lower priority. Good thing, though, that it's of any priority at all. I suppose it must be somewhat similar with these reports. The buildup is rather slow, but in the end it should work.
hamiltonians 5y ago
Reporting is useless because it takes a very high threshold to get the video removed if at all. Think about how many reports Trump videos or fox news videos get. So YouTube probably does not assign such reports much weight.
- shirro 5y ago
  Seemed like a reasonable comment but thanks to jschlatter posting a link to the youtube report history in a comment here I have been able to verify every single video I have reported in the last few days has been deleted. So it does make a difference but the volume of these things must be massive.
pedalpete 5y ago
I saw these a few months ago, maybe a year ago. I was reporting them, and within a few weeks, I stopped seeing them. I had assumed Google had solved the problem, not just that the problem had been moved to a new set of users...

by shirro 5y ago

n4bz0r 5y ago

> Would refresh the front page and would get another scam in first position I have a suspicion that their system simply doesn't reconstruct recommendation lists instantly. I've been marking a lot of videos (of certain channels) as "not interested" in the past, and remember having the same frustration. The videos wouldn't go away after a page refresh. But after about a day or two you'd stop getting videos from unwanted channels if you're persistent enough with your marking, and if you don't click very similar videos from other channels or videos from the same channel (even accidentally). They react much faster to what you do watch. The processing of data about what you do not want to watch is seemingly of much lower priority. Good thing, though, that it's of any priority at all. I suppose it must be somewhat similar with these reports. The buildup is rather slow, but in the end it should work.

hamiltonians 5y ago

Reporting is useless because it takes a very high threshold to get the video removed if at all. Think about how many reports Trump videos or fox news videos get. So YouTube probably does not assign such reports much weight.

shirro 5y ago
Seemed like a reasonable comment but thanks to jschlatter posting a link to the youtube report history in a comment here I have been able to verify every single video I have reported in the last few days has been deleted. So it does make a difference but the volume of these things must be massive.

pedalpete 5y ago

I saw these a few months ago, maybe a year ago. I was reporting them, and within a few weeks, I stopped seeing them. I had assumed Google had solved the problem, not just that the problem had been moved to a new set of users...