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I stopped clicking on video responses when I realised that almost all of them were spam videos trying to get some views after the original video went viral.
by CaptchaReader 13y ago
I stopped clicking on video responses when I realised that almost all of them were spam videos trying to get some views after the original video went viral.
- denzil_correa 13y agoYoutube Video Response spam was pretty nasty. It did attract some attention for unique spam detection algorithms for video responses as well [0,1]. [0] Fabricio Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Chao Zhang, and Keith Ross. 2008. Identifying video spammers in online social networks. In Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Adversarial information retrieval on the web (AIRWeb '08), Carlos Castillo, Kumar Chellapilla, and Dennis Fetterly (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 45-52. DOI=10.1145/1451983.1451996 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1451983.1451996 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1451983.1451996 [1] http://www.iiitd.edu.in/~ashish/PST-2013.pdf http://www.iiitd.edu.in/~ashish/PST-2013.pdf
- Houshalter 13y agoThey were abused by spammers, but it was a nice feature, and had a lot of legitimate users as well. Maybe it wasn't used a lot on mainstream youtube, but there were places where people commonly made videos to respond to the arguments made in another video, for example. I don't see the point in getting rid of it. They suggest people should search for responses to the video instead. Few will and even if you do, you don't have a good chance of finding them necessarily.