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Why this guy has not been blocked from Youtube is beyond me. He spams so many search results.

by mongol 4y ago

fxtentacle 4y ago
Every search result spammed in favor of YouTube is an additional bit of attention to be monetized by Google. Why should they prevent people from making them more money?
- acover 4y ago
  Reputation?
  - jiggawatts 4y ago
    Tragedy of the commons explains everything. Individuals at Google are incentivised to abuse the collective reputation for personal gain. It always seems that the towering reputation of Google is an unassailable monolith that will never be shaken by any individual. So every individual harms it in their own tiny selfish way, gaining promotions, KPIs, or pay bumps as a reward for their behaviour. Decades of promoting the selfish, commons-destroying people eventually results in an organisation that has these values entrenched in its upper echelons. At this point, the demise of the enterprise is inevitable, as the commons is destroyed in bigger, more obvious ways, by people now thoroughly empowered to do so, and surrounded by people competing with them for the right to also destroy the commons even more. Cash reserves and the intangible value of lingering external brand perception can drag this out for a surprisingly long time, but the direction will inevitably continue downwards. In other words, it is precisely "reputation" that enables this kind of atrocious, value-destroying behaviour and quality erosion. Companies without reputation are too busy building it, and can't afford even the slightest slip up.
    - mavhc 4y ago
      They probably should get a leader to control their employees
    - NonNefarious 4y ago
      Confirmed. A good friend and colleague worked at Google. Their employees are forced to use a graphical tool to rank coworkers in comparison to each other by lining pictures of them up horizontally... and you're not allowed to put people on an equal level. The tool enforces disparity. This after Google admitted that they've been douchebags during the interview process and claimed they were going to do better. Yeah, OK.
  - 23B1 4y ago
    I'm so mad at Google I'm going to stop using it entirely! Oh wait ;)
  - ProfXponent 4y ago
    When your reputation is already rock bottom you have nothing left to lose. I stopped using YouTube a while back when it decided that because I like programming, video games, and martial arts I would also enjoy misogynistic pricks like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro. There is something deeply flawed in YouTube’s recommendations, and despite my effort to curate content it kept driving me towards alt-right drivel.
- bspammer 4y ago
  I cannot believe that this guy has made Google more money than he's cost them. Millions of videos is a huge amount of space, and almost all of them have close to no views. His most popular video of all time has 78k views.
AlfeG 4y ago
Funny enough that I have never seen this account or videos from this account. Only few weeks ago stumbled on article about this guy. Google him, searched him on You Tube. Still no recommendations and results with his videos.
- was_a_dev 4y ago
  I've been searching for this comment. This is the first time I've heard of this phenomenon and I'd consider myself a heavy and long time user of YouTube YouTube always amazes me that there can be content creator with millions of subscribers (or number of uploads in this case) that I have never heard of.
  - y04nn 4y ago
    I hit his videos a couple of time, it was on really niche technical subjects for witch I would not expect a Youtube video to exist. If someone would have made one, it would be better ranked. But sometimes Youtube impress me with videos on some really niche subjects, which is amazing, but when you click on one of his videos, it's really deceiving.
tgv 4y ago
If your YouTube search offers a (financial) reward, don't be surprised someone tries to win it. You're actively incentivizing these people.
shp0ngle 4y ago
What he is doing is technically legal. He attributes the sources, as the CC license requires. And the Q&A is technically correct. The correct action is to not ban him, but not show him very high up in results. The same with Expert Sex Change of yesteryear.
o_m 4y ago
Why would they? YouTube earns money on this as well. It's a bad idea long term, but the manager in charge probably focus on the bonuses they are receiving short term.

Why this guy has not been blocked from Youtube is beyond me. He spams so many search results.

by mongol 4y ago

Why this guy has not been blocked from Youtube is beyond me. He spams so many search results.

Every search result spammed in favor of YouTube is an additional bit of attention to be monetized by Google. Why should they prevent people from making them more money?

acover 4y ago
Reputation?
- jiggawatts 4y ago
  Tragedy of the commons explains everything. Individuals at Google are incentivised to abuse the collective reputation for personal gain. It always seems that the towering reputation of Google is an unassailable monolith that will never be shaken by any individual. So every individual harms it in their own tiny selfish way, gaining promotions, KPIs, or pay bumps as a reward for their behaviour. Decades of promoting the selfish, commons-destroying people eventually results in an organisation that has these values entrenched in its upper echelons. At this point, the demise of the enterprise is inevitable, as the commons is destroyed in bigger, more obvious ways, by people now thoroughly empowered to do so, and surrounded by people competing with them for the right to also destroy the commons even more. Cash reserves and the intangible value of lingering external brand perception can drag this out for a surprisingly long time, but the direction will inevitably continue downwards. In other words, it is precisely "reputation" that enables this kind of atrocious, value-destroying behaviour and quality erosion. Companies without reputation are too busy building it, and can't afford even the slightest slip up.
  - mavhc 4y ago
    They probably should get a leader to control their employees
  - NonNefarious 4y ago
    Confirmed. A good friend and colleague worked at Google. Their employees are forced to use a graphical tool to rank coworkers in comparison to each other by lining pictures of them up horizontally... and you're not allowed to put people on an equal level. The tool enforces disparity. This after Google admitted that they've been douchebags during the interview process and claimed they were going to do better. Yeah, OK.
- 23B1 4y ago
  I'm so mad at Google I'm going to stop using it entirely! Oh wait ;)
- ProfXponent 4y ago
  When your reputation is already rock bottom you have nothing left to lose. I stopped using YouTube a while back when it decided that because I like programming, video games, and martial arts I would also enjoy misogynistic pricks like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro. There is something deeply flawed in YouTube’s recommendations, and despite my effort to curate content it kept driving me towards alt-right drivel.
bspammer 4y ago
I cannot believe that this guy has made Google more money than he's cost them. Millions of videos is a huge amount of space, and almost all of them have close to no views. His most popular video of all time has 78k views.

AlfeG 4y ago

Funny enough that I have never seen this account or videos from this account. Only few weeks ago stumbled on article about this guy. Google him, searched him on You Tube. Still no recommendations and results with his videos.

was_a_dev 4y ago
I've been searching for this comment. This is the first time I've heard of this phenomenon and I'd consider myself a heavy and long time user of YouTube YouTube always amazes me that there can be content creator with millions of subscribers (or number of uploads in this case) that I have never heard of.
- y04nn 4y ago
  I hit his videos a couple of time, it was on really niche technical subjects for witch I would not expect a Youtube video to exist. If someone would have made one, it would be better ranked. But sometimes Youtube impress me with videos on some really niche subjects, which is amazing, but when you click on one of his videos, it's really deceiving.

tgv 4y ago

If your YouTube search offers a (financial) reward, don't be surprised someone tries to win it. You're actively incentivizing these people.

shp0ngle 4y ago

What he is doing is technically legal. He attributes the sources, as the CC license requires. And the Q&A is technically correct. The correct action is to not ban him, but not show him very high up in results. The same with Expert Sex Change of yesteryear.

o_m 4y ago

Why would they? YouTube earns money on this as well. It's a bad idea long term, but the manager in charge probably focus on the bonuses they are receiving short term.