LogFAQs > #929902012

zebatov posted...

I dont understand how thats a bannable offense.

Probably in the same way that spamming emojis on GameFAQs can get you modded as well. It's considered disruptive and annoying.

The difference being that, as much as people bitch about the mods here, at least they're still human beings with a modicum of discretion who can make value judgements. YouTube tends to automate every crucial function on the site out of a combination of terrified fear of actually hiring people to do work and because the massive flood of content almost CAN'T be curated by a reasonable number of humans, so it can't differentiate WHY people are doing something, only IF they're doing something the algorithm has been programmed to recognize as "bad". And YouTube's algorithms are notoriously bad at recognizing what's actually bad and what isn't.



Lokarin posted...

If you don't know Markiplier... what are you doing on youtube? (hyperbole)

To be fair, almost everything on YouTube is "niche" to some degree, and there will always be plenty of people who neither know nor care who the "popular" people are on the site. There are millions of people who have no clue who the fuck PewDiePie is, and Markiplier doesn't even have that level of exposure.

I actually WATCH Let's Plays and other gameplay videos by multiple YouTubers, and I've never really watched a single Markiplier video or even had his stuff recommended to me in my usual feeds. I only know who he is by tangential pop culture osmosis (and spending too much time on the Internet in general), and could easily see a scenario where I'd never heard of him or had no clue who he is.

And I'm basically consuming his variety of content. For the millions of people who aren't necessarily watching gaming stuff on YouTube at all, it would be easy for them to never know anything about him.
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