I miss when Youtube had community sourced subtitles and those little annotations on the video…
So we can explicitly graffiti videos but we can’t add translations. 🤯
Advertisers working in your native language cannot hijack your attention when foreign language videos are running. Subtitling facilitates that, and encourages site activity that differs from consumption, such as broadening one’s horizons and being inquisitive about the real world.
because twitter community notes is such a dumpster fire for nazis to spread disinformation, youtube was like hey we want some of that…
The motto google lives by.
That’s not going to go wrong at all.
I mean, if this is basically Twitter’s Community Notes feature, but for YouTube, I’m all for it. Bit of a balancing act, but it’s the last thing that hasn’t been completely wrecked now that Twitter became Xitter.
i mean community notes under elon’s twitter is just a way for bigots to pile on and harass marginalised people though
Honestly never seen that happen.
Most times, I see it used on ads, political figures, and Elon himself.
Re-Enabling the dislike button would help too
Nah. Low value signal. Easy to game.
no thanks; i like having videos by women or about women not be swarmed by incels
It was removed because Biden got too many downvotes. It’ll be back soon. It was stupid of them to take it away.
Lol no.
That’s not why it was removed
It was removed not long after one of their Rewind vids was disliked to hell.
And it ain’t coming back, at least they haven’t so much as hinted at it
Nah, that’s what they told you and you believed. Don’t be a fool for the media. It’s a bad look.
Continuing to speak is a bad look on you.
You talk shit out of your ass.
I talk truth in my own thoghts. You speak lies in talking points you were told to say. And you do. Be smarter. Don’t follow the herd.
I am glad to see that in his personal bankruptcy, Alex Jones has decided to spend the free time here on Lemmy…
Welcome to have you, Ale, I can’t wait to hear more about the chicken fried steak that God talked to you through.
Follower
Alright, why do you think that google would remove dislikes becausr of biden
I don’t think it. It’s true. The reason is because they were pushing his agenda. They’ve already admitted that. They removed it because he was getting too many. Just because you disagree doesn’t make me wrong because that is straight truth.
Whoa this guy’s badass.
He knows what’s really going on, and it just happens to always be opposite of whatever “the media” says.
Crazy but true. Keep being a follower. See how that works out for you.
I agree but there’s also an add-on for that
Yeah but it’s not that accurate, and it leaves most normal mobile users out of the picture. I know YouTube knew exactly what they were doing when they removed dislikes, but it still seems absolutely insane to remove such a useful tool for sifting through the bullshit.
Hopefully it’s on by default and works like the old pop-up-video messages over the video. It should play a sound every time one pops up and then a bubble popping sound when you click on it to close it.
This sounds like a great spot for scammers to flood for maximum visabilty. It’ll be too much effort to moderate, so creators will just disable them (if they can) or this will be shut down in about (checks YouTube’s history of dealling with scammers) 3.5 years.
Thanks bruh, if I had the patience to deal with ads maybe I’d watch YouTube.
lol, considering the “quality” content in the comments section it’s just going to be a continuation of that dumpster fire.
I would never go as far as to say that they’re “quality,” but I do think YT comment sections aren’t the complete shitshow that they were a decade or so ago. It really does depend on the channel though too.
Didn’t they take away crowd-sourced subtitles before?
Damn I miss those. Nowadays it’s really hard to find a video that’s in another language and has subtitles. The only subtitles you will find are the automatically-generated ones, which suck
They’re at least understandable (usually), but they’re like 5-10 seconds behind the video (sometimes longer), and they can be difficult to interpret at times.
They’re only about 90% accurate and usually that’s better than nothing, but sometimes the little bit that’s wrong is very confusing
Time to scrape notes data for ai
This is just for training AI.
I feel like this is what the comment section is used for.
Can the channel owner delete comments on their videos?
Yes, as well as automatically hiding new comments.
which is unfortunate, i think YT does it to save paid labor on moderating comments, but this allows video posters to upload misleading info and delete correcting replies, which also pairs well with hidden thumbs down
It also allows uploaders to stop hate filled posting, like incels trashing the comments on anything positive about female characters in media.
Honestly, I’d rather the channel have the first say here. It would be even better if some independent mod team could override channel owners though if there are enough reports.
Enough reports is how brigades are effective.
There isn’t a great solution that solves all the possibilities, it is a difficult problem. An independent mod team sounds great until you get into the details of how they are formed and the fact that they are people too who might miss nuance or hold their own shitty opinions.
Sure, but a manual review is way better than any form of automated system. To combat brigading, the mod team could issue temporary suspensions if that’s deemed to be the case, and full bans if the behavior is repeated.
It would be quite expensive for YouTube to do that, so it’s not happening. Best we’re getting is some automated nonsense, probably based on AI.
It also allows uploaders to stoke hate with their videos and delete reasonable takes and people calling out misinformation in the comments.
Which one is worse depends on the context of the video.
And Youtube will 100% allow creators to hide notes, as well. Corporations will not allow themselves to be criticized on their own pages.
Comments section are not voted on by users.
? They absolutely are…
So the upvotes and downvotes in the comments don’t do anything?
Probably not. Or maybe every vote counts as “engagement” and pushes it to the top.
I value my mental health too much to regularly dive into the YouTube comment section
I must be watching different videos than the people complaining about YouTube comments. The ones I see are virtually all positive.
Don’t just look at the comments. Look at the replies to the top comments. 8 out of 10 times they turn super toxic super quickly in my experience.
Wait, didn’t this feature already exist for years and then was shut down??
