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Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos

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Re: Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos

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Post by exabrial »

I think it's funny during Christmas and Easter, thousands of sermons and positive Christian videos are posted to YouTube but do not warrant a special response from Google, despite Christians being a large user base. Google is of course free to do as they wish with their platform and promote whatever they want, it's their choice and they own it. What I dislike is they advertise it as sort of free speech platform but rankings are intrinsically geared towards special interests.

Re: Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos

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Post by simongr3dal »

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #5

im always wondering how to quantify the self reinforcing aspects of popular videos. also it seems like score decay based on time should be completely controlled by the user

As I understand it, the formula is designed to keep a trending video around on their list for roughly a day. It would be interesting so see a list which optimised for showing videos (of any age) with accelerating views, and had a stronger decay over time, so you could see what is trending right now, but it might be heavily biased by the very recent uploads from popular creators.

Re: Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos

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Post by yorwba »

simongr3dal wrote: post #9

From their about page: "A simple way to understand this formula is that a video loses a point every 12 hours and gains a point every time it grows by 10x. In other words, a video's score will not change if its view count grows by 10x in 12 hours. These constants were tuned to keep popular videos around for about a day." It seems like pretty flawed idea, they base their ranking on video views and age, but the video vi…

> except this one isn't localised/customised for your specific country.

It is. I get results in German. (And yes, they're all clickbait I'd never watch.)

Re: Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos

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Post by halflings »

therein wrote: post #3

This is a great idea. I also wanted to create a platform like this one however allow people to sync their list of subscribed channels from YouTube. As you know, the subscriptions feed is now optimized on YouTube and not all new content from your subscribed channels find their way into your feed anymore. This platform that I was thinking would basically bring that back, however under a different domain with a better U…

> As you know, the subscriptions feed is now optimized on YouTube and not all new content from your subscribed channels find their way into your feed anymore.

Source? Wasn't that just an experiment?

Re: Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos

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Post by simongr3dal »

yorwba wrote: post #13
simongr3dal wrote: post #9

From their about page: "A simple way to understand this formula is that a video loses a point every 12 hours and gains a point every time it grows by 10x. In other words, a video's score will not change if its view count grows by 10x in 12 hours. These constants were tuned to keep popular videos around for about a day." It seems like pretty flawed idea, they base their ranking on video views and age, but the video vi…

> except this one isn't localised/customised for your specific country. It is. I get results in German. (And yes, they're all clickbait I'd never watch.)

I see, there's a language filter up top must've missed it the first time around.
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