nassimBreeze

My idea allows for change of categories pretty much anytime. This user control maybe be able to circumvent the problem you're describing.

Looking at the link. It seems that it was beaten and someone received the money. Now, this is my reason for posting my idea here : it's to get feedback on it. It seems to be rather unlikely that I would come up with something better than teams who are payed to come up with those recommendation algorithms.

However, what do you think of the proposed idea. Maybe in theory it looks better but until I A/B test it I might never know if it's really better than what's currently out there.

If you look at YouTube there are tags but also the category that you can select when you upload a video (Lifestyle/How-to and so on) so maybe we could simply use that along with tags to get accurate classification.

However, if I made a new video platform (Daunting task) I would penalize content creator who purposefully mis-categories their content.

I wonder why big platforms don't give more control over their recommendations compared to what I propose. Maybe it's stakeholders or they want to promote certain things regardless of user liking.

Also thank you for making tube and reddit.qnzl.co. There is a whole community at reddit.com/r/nosurf who really need those.

If I look at websites like Quora or Medium they usually ask you to select broad categories. I haven't thought deeply about it but tags that are already used on YouTube and Medium seems to be the most obvious to classify the content.

Do you have an idea in mind?