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YouTube's moderation feels like it’s being done by a drunk Roomba half the time... totally missing context, especially when it comes to open source and self-hosting content. Meanwhile, there's a flood of actual piracy tutorials that stay up for years. Your video gets flagged for showing people how to use LibreELEC, but somehow there are entire channels pushing borderline NSFW content under the guise of "body art" or "educational content" that stay monetized and untouched.

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The entire thing is being done by an algorithm by Google and the various legal groups that scour youtube for infringement. The review process is equally automated as well. Google seems perpetually allergic to having humans involved at any point and so it continues to compound the mistake the algorithms make by making them unfixable.

That's because of the amount of content which keeps increasing. Even outsourcing to low cost countries it wouldn't be cheap to hire thousands or tens of thousands of people to review cases. Still you need to have humans in there somewhere.

You can find entire albums and movies - but I get a copyright strike if I try and post a video of a live performance of an orchestra for a piece composed in 1954.

It's bizarre.

Let’s not forget that Geerlings income is probably significantly derived from YouTube. On the plus side he’s big enough that he has more sway than up and coming creators, either via a direct human rep or via another prominent YouTuber if he doesn’t have one of his own. Small sites are SOL.

I think this is probably a problem with most internet moderation. You saw the same thing on StackOverflow - moderators spending big chunks of time going through a queue of things to moderate, so they use heuristics rather than really understanding the item.

Also most of the things in the queue should get "no" as an answer, so they just get into the habit of "no, no, no, no...".

> Also most of the things in the queue should get "no" as an answer, so they just get into the habit of "no, no, no, no...".

I have access to these review queues on Stack Overflow (as basically everybody with sufficient karma has), but my default is "yes" (i.e. innocent, until proven otherwise).

I do too but every time I look at them... There are a lot of really bad questions. Like not even coherent English, just dumps of logs with no context. Stuff that definitely should be downvoted.

I was going to go and get an example from the queue but I just checked and they're actually all empty. SO is truly dead.

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