Current Events > Youtube really sucks sometimes

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I am wondering if any of you know for sure. Are there moderators who are actively reviewing all videos that are uploading and if they find it wrong can delete it themselves right then, or does it work that youtube doesn't see every upload but the video has to be flagged for report before a moderator decides to take it down? Some videos on my liked list have been deleted over the last year due to TOS violations. So it made me wonder how the moderation really works. Thanks.

By the way youtube sucks, they allow So much bad stuff on their platform. There is this scum bag who has two vids of himself abusing his cat and i reported them for animal.abuse yet youtube never took them down and modded him. People on 4chan had a topic about this person and are trying to track him down.

Bump for if anyone has info

EricDraven59 posted...

Some videos on my liked list have been deleted over the last year due to TOS violations

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I saw some place it automated based on key words

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Well i just dont know how the modding works. I am gonna make the topic on 4chan again about the cat abuser. I have the link to his video and took a screenshot too. Its so ridiculous though that either moderators are extremely slow to remove a reported video like animal abuse, or just don't remove it at all. God forbid someone shows a nipple they get banned, but filming animals being killed or abused is in full force

It's based on both reports, but also the AI making decisions. Big youtubers have had videos deleted, and they've managed to get ahold of youtube support who will often say "We have no idea why the algorithm deleted that."

But yeah, the animal abuse video isn't gonna get deleted off your one report. There's stuff even worse that makes it up and does not go down, even when people report it.

It's a dice roll.

JimmyFraska posted...

It's based on both reports, but also the AI making decisions. Big youtubers have had videos deleted, and they've managed to get ahold of youtube support who will often say "We have no idea why the algorithm deleted that."

But yeah, the animal abuse video isn't gonna get deleted off your one report. There's stuff even worse that makes it up and does not go down, even when people report it.

It's a dice roll.

Thats crazy!! Youtube and google try to pretend to be a wholesome company and has a bunch of community guideline rules for videos. Yet they won't even delete such videos and mod the person because maybe not enough people marked it? I mean if one person flags a video and its genuinely that kind of content thats not allowed, then it should be taken down. I've seen a handful of animal dying videos, there are hundreds more i didnt watch because i hate that stuff. But even a user like myself can tell a video breaks a rule, law or Google's "moral compass" that a moderator shouldn't be a failure and actually do their jobs

There is absolutely no way humans review all content uploaded to YouTube. A quick Google search reveals that every minute, 500 hours of footage is uploaded.

They rely on an algorithm and humans only get involved when they start getting a bad rap on social media.

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EricDraven59 posted...

Thats crazy!! Youtube and google try to pretend to be a wholesome company and has a bunch of community guideline rules for videos. Yet they won't even delete such videos and mod the person because maybe not enough people marked it? I mean if one person flags a video and its genuinely that kind of content thats not allowed, then it should be taken down. I've seen a handful of animal dying videos, there are hundreds more i didnt watch because i hate that stuff. But even a user like myself can tell a video breaks a rule, law or Google's "moral compass" that a moderator shouldn't be a failure and actually do their jobs

i agree they should delete based in a legitimate report but we arent in charge and donake the rules so we have to live with it


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There is absolutely zero consistency on youtube. Your best bet is to get partnered with them. Anything else they don't give a shit about if it's automatically deleted due to malicious flag spam.
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Yeah you are right. About half the videos on my liked list have been deleted for TOS violations. And sometimes ill find a video and the next day it wilk be taken down already. It just bothers me how much filth is on that site, is google too big of a company to get in trouble with the feds? I like youtube and all, i watch so many videos, but i know there's really bad stuff on there and moderators are stupid. This is sad how google is the biggest company in America and can't be in trouble with the law

There is too much content on youtube for it all to be feasibly reviewed and hand-curated by google.

AFAIK:

It gets passed through an algorithm which can identify nudity, copyrighted content, certain words that suggest hate speech or other prohibited speech, and probably other prohibited content. It either flags it automatically or passes that content to a human to review.

There is also probably an algorithm for determining which reports need to be looked at. If one single person flags a video, it probably won't get reviewed, especially if the video has a lot of views. They analyze trends of reports and respond to the videos that are most likely to be genuinely rule-breaking based on the pattern of the reports. It also probably has a lower threshold for reports for videos that it thinks are likely to be rule-breaking based on the preliminary analysis

I talked once with somebody who worked nearby a team of people who have to review the videos. They have to filter out so much awful content including child pornography and other distressing content, he said it is a very difficult job mentally.

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A lot of my fav'd vids from the early 2000s are gonezo : (

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Friendly reminder that Vimeo and Dailymotion exist.

I download shorter videos if I like them enough, as for longer ones, I'm not wasting storage space on that, if they're gone then so be it.
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Tbf YouTube has the pretty much impossible task of filtering a literally incomprehensible amount of video media. Think I read somewhere about 500 hours of content is uploaded to YouTube any given minute.

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yeah

EricDraven59 posted...

yeah

I haven't checked my favorites in over 5 years but they're probably all gone by now.
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