Comment on YSK that YouTube shadow bans people (for a time) + implications to creators
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months agoyoutube doesn’t actually care if you comment, “engagement” is through sharing, and watching. that’s all youtube cares about for engagement. how many watch hours, how many adverts, how many click throughs on those adverts.
also literally every large social network has shadow bans, it’s the only successful way to deal with unwanted elements. if you tell the unwanted element that they are banned, then they just go make a new account.
zeograd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Actually, it seems like engagement is through any kind of interaction, commenting, upvoting, even downvoting, are used to boost a video visibility, because, as you say, their ultimate goal is maximizing money from ads.
OP is right to support creators via comments.
Note also that YouTube has automatic filters for comments, which will remain visible for its author only, but the creator can also shadowban someone from their channel.
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“actually”, not it doesn’t. that’s the old youtube logic. now youtube actively buries any kind of engagement like comments or liking, it’s not useful. youtube does not care about who is leaving comments or not, and leaving comments itself is highly susceptible to bots.
again, all youtube cares about is about watch time, and if you share something with someone else as that leads to more watch time. people arguing in the comments has zero relevance on how many ads people see.