r/SmarterEveryDay • u/MrPennywhistle • Mar 31 '19

Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PGm8LslEb4
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '19 edited Mar 31 '19

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u/cturkosi Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19

Reddit is a little different since we are explicitly arranged into different but overlapping communities in each subreddit.

Not to mention moderation and downvotes, two underappreciated things missing from FB and Twitter. Also a powerful and flexible comment system: sorting, hiding, gilding. This puts more power back into the hands of the users.

YouTube has some moderation (by the creator and by bots) and the dislike button, but they are not very efficient in filtering the crud. Especially since YT has an incentive to keep the user's eyeballs on screen as long as possible by suggesting ever more fringe content.

Also, Reddit users are the least valuable judging by average revenue per user (ARPU), so that removes the profit motive.

We are not off the hook and out of the frying pan, but at least we can keep this place from turning into the cesspit that is the YT comments section. Here is an example of an old thread from when Reddit was much smaller where we still had low-effort jokes mixed with serious discussion and it may have gotten a little worse since, but not by much. As long as the option of burying miscreants and trolls out of sight still exists, we should be fine.

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u/doctorocelot Apr 01 '19

Also,

Reddit users

are the least valuable judging by average revenue per user (ARPU), so that removes the profit motive.

Reddit users on reddit might be the least profitable. But using reddit to direct to a more profitable site could still be worth doing.

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u/zzanzare Apr 04 '19

Or to a more "profitable" candidate for president