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The video is on YouTube and YouTube's guidance says that the following won't be age restricted: Abbreviated, censored, or light profanity (like “hell” or “damn
by sumeno 4y ago
The video is on YouTube and YouTube's guidance says that the following won't be age restricted:
Abbreviated, censored, or light profanity (like “hell” or “damn”) in the title, thumbnail, or video. Moderate profanity (like “shit” or “bitch”) used in the video. Infrequent usage of strong profanity (like the "f-word”) after the opening or up to twice in approx. the first 30 seconds of the video; or strong profanity in a music video.
So a video can drop an f-bomb twice in the first 30 seconds but a few times across 10 seconds of the video is frequent?
- CydeWeys 4y agoThese kinds of rules are never applied strictly. Content moderation is always discretionary. If you don't want to be judged as adult content then play it safe, which includes censoring the f-bomb. It's just common sense.
- asveikau 4y agoI really doubt it's "discretionary". They're probably running scripts on the content and likely not basing decisions on human review of any kind. If they have any human review, it's probably contactors, reviewing only the 3 second clip of the 1.5 hr video, the tiny part that was flagged by the algorithm and understanding very little.
- Dylan16807 4y agoNo, it's not "common sense" to go that far beyond what the rules say. The video has over an order of magnitude less swearing than the rule says is okay.
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y agoIt’s one thing to suggest self censorship, but what about the other concerns in the article? Like how the manual review cleared it, then it got flagged again later? Or how the video will never recover from the hit taken from the recommendation algorithm? Or that YouTube is notoriously bad about informing uploaders of troublesome content with specificity? Let alone how bad they are about applying poorly written and nebulous standards. This is more than a one dimensional “just don’t have any curse words or non family friendly content in your videos because it’s entirely your own fault if YouTube flags it capriciously ” kind of issue.
- numpad0 4y ago> manual review cleared it, then it got flagged again later Too many times I’ve heard of this failure mode. Did humanity fundamentally lost against AI?
- xani_ 4y agoThis got age-rated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Mte6z7TQI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Mte6z7TQI There is not even a word spoken in it.
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- pbhjpbhj 4y agoI wish music videos didn't get a pass here (or at least there was some setting), I prefer radio edits, in general. Why did user choice go away?