<story><title>YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/to-answer-critics-youtube-tries-a-new-metric-responsibility</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>Frankly, I hope YouTube (and Google in general) dramatically overdo it with the censorship, &amp;quot;curation&amp;quot;, and deplatforming of &amp;quot;irresponsible&amp;quot; content, purely so that it forces an independent, non-corporate model to be developed.&lt;p&gt;Having one company be the sole gatekeeper for the overwhelming majority of the web&amp;#x27;s video content is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a solution.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-11/to-answer-critics-youtube-tries-a-new-metric-responsibility</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>legohead</author><text>These companies focusing so much on algorithms, when the best solution is to simply use actual humans.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve done a fair amount of work on trying to detect and deal with spammers, fraudulent activity and such.  &lt;i&gt;Nothing&lt;/i&gt; beats a human eye.&lt;p&gt;My most successful approach has been to filter out the super obvious stuff, then send the rest to a queue that is kept an eye on by humans.  A small staff can easily fight back against bullshit.  Yes, YouTube is orders of magnitude above  what I&amp;#x27;ve dealt with, but I&amp;#x27;m sure their smart engineers can filter out the majority of stuff.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s painfully obvious that YouTube lacks human eyes on things.  That, or they lack direction and empowerment of their employees.</text></comment>