Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26822753-20180818154638/@comment-25856498-20181026103314

Kirnemiscrits wrote: MagmaHound wrote: Can someone explain what's happening with the Youtube algorithms here?


 * 1) I play SMB Step & Roll music on Youtube
 * 2) "Recommended" videos:
 * 3) *"The Weirdest Border in the World"
 * 4) *"US/UK/Aussie English Language Differences"
 * 5) *"Rest API concepts and examples" (I've never even heard of it)
 * 6) *"32 Incredible Easter Eggs you've missed in Harry Potter films"
 * 7) *"Parkinson - Les Dawson - 1974"

(yes, all of these are real recommendations apparently)

It's almost like someone's paying to get their videos recommended but not actually labelling them as an ad Magma, have you ever heard of "metatagging"?

To keep it brief, it is yet another unholy tactic youtubers use to get people to watch their stuff, alongside clickbaiting.

Whenever you post a video, you can "tag" it. Videos with the same tag as your video will show up in the Recommended bar. This is so that a youtuber may continue watching videos of the same topic with pleasure.

Then you have metataggers. what these people do is put an INSANE amount of tags on their videos, averaging at around 150 tags for most videos, including tags that have NOTHING to do with the video. this is to ensure that the video shows up in about as many Recommended feeds it possibly can. Do NOT support these people; they should be using honorable strategies to attract their customers, like actually making good content. Not some utter crap like "32 Incredible Easter Eggs you've missed in Harry Potter films" That's why the algorithms need to change. Someone could exploit this by literally wasting away a whole day putting tags (is there a limit?) and getting their video to show up on literally everyone's recommended list

Also, I'm smart enough to not eat the onion