Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Obey Rules That Don’t Exist Yet”.
Think we have like one or two more topics and then it’s after dark yeah. I think so I mean YouTube offers amnesty for channel warnings. Yeah YouTube is going to be changing their Community guidelines policy so that creators can get violation, warnings removed from their Channel if they complete an educational training course on YouTube’s content policies. If creators complete the course and then go 90 days without violating the same policy again, the warning will be lifted according to YouTube more than 80 percent of creators who receive a warning, never violate policies. Again, of course, many of those creators were inappropriately flagged and never violated any policy to begin with, and we’re not really sure if that’s reflected in the numbers but would still have to take the course, even if they were incorrectly flagged. Our discussion question here is: why doesn’t YouTube fix their policy ambiguities in an accurate moderation, and I know the answer to that. The answer is that if they keep it ambiguous, they give themselves more flexibility in terms of enforcement. That’S the answer. That’S always the answer.
Unpopular opinion, they might need that everybody wants super clear guidelines, oh for things like okay, so here’s something that a lot of people don’t know. This is like inside baseball. Youtube has engines that run internally, that analyze thumbnails, for whether or not they are click bait. Did you know that no yeah, so they will rate a video’s title and thumbnail for how click bait like they are, and this includes all kinds of factors like the expression on the face and what objects are in it and similarity to other uh click. Bait, um thumbnails and when I say click bait I mean the actual definition of Click bait, which is baiting someone into clicking something that they otherwise wouldn’t I’m not talking about. You know effective packaging that is clickable for something that you know it is similar to.
You know what the thumbnail was where the thumbnail is represented of the content, I’m talking about like the old school, like Phil, DeFranco thumbnails, with the just like boobs in them all the time, click bait right so so YouTube has systems that will analyze thumbnails and determine How how click bait they are and they give creators General guidelines like? Oh, if you were to do this, that would be an example of something that would possibly be treated as kind of clickbaity, at least initially, you know if they find that it’s a quality piece of content and people who click on it are quite satisfied. Then that will de-rank it in clickbaiteness, but these are things that might get your content kind of flagged as possibly clickbait, but they won’t tell you exactly what those things are for two reasons: a they’re always changing and B and that’s by Design and B. If they tell us exactly where the lines are, there’s going to be a significant proportion of content creators that are going to go right up against them and that’s the way that it is whether it’s Community guidelines or whether it’s you know, clickbait analysis or you know. Whatever it happens to be, or whether it’s you know a a spiffing Brit, you know hack the platform um you know exploit like whether it was uh polls and polls and Community posts, or you know, whatever else it is. You know they’re always looking for ways to to open up, exploits and close them, and it’s always changing. The Sands are always shifting, and that is 100 on purpose.
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