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YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by skim_milk »

Barrin92 wrote: post #2

Seems completely understandable that YouTube removed it. For people who didn't watch it, the guy made a prank title "drinking hydroxic acid" (which is water) but I can completely understand why youtube doesn't want anything with "drinking acid" in a video title that even vaguely resembles actual acids. Plenty of youtube viewers are literal 12 year old children who don't even bother to read the description. "nobody wi…

YouTube moderation is probably in a tight place financially. IIRC they've never generated a return on investment for Google, so all their revenue is split between paying creators and keeping the lights on. Could they pay thousands of people with bachelor degrees a quality salary to research a couple dozen videos a day for the highest-quality moderation? Sure, but the shareholders and creators on the platform want their share as well, and the viewers already hate the amount of ads on the videos. So we will probably have a skeleton crew of low-pay low-skill workers reviewing thousands of videos a day for moderation for the rest of the foreseeable future without something outside of the company forcing quality moderation otherwise.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by cute_boi »

Barrin92 wrote: post #2

Seems completely understandable that YouTube removed it. For people who didn't watch it, the guy made a prank title "drinking hydroxic acid" (which is water) but I can completely understand why youtube doesn't want anything with "drinking acid" in a video title that even vaguely resembles actual acids. Plenty of youtube viewers are literal 12 year old children who don't even bother to read the description. "nobody wi…

Well youtube has lot of guns games videos, nonsense pranks, knife games in counter strike etc.. Are we going to ban all of those videos?

I don't expect 12 year children to know about acid so it would be surprising if children discovers such video. And parent has to decide which video their children should watch otherwise children can easily go to google.com and do anything.

I really don't think youtube should act like judge in such cases. Outright deleting video in minor thing like this sets very bad precedence.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by spoiler »

Karishma1234fff wrote: post #18
Barrin92 wrote: post #2

Seems completely understandable that YouTube removed it. For people who didn't watch it, the guy made a prank title "drinking hydroxic acid" (which is water) but I can completely understand why youtube doesn't want anything with "drinking acid" in a video title that even vaguely resembles actual acids. Plenty of youtube viewers are literal 12 year old children who don't even bother to read the description. "nobody wi…

Fair point, but they should apply that standard uniformly. Wasn't the ice bucket challenge dangerous ? And it was literally dangerous.

There also the problem of fact retention. I really doubt children will remember the name of the substance accurately, and then they suddenly drink hydrochloric acid, which to most people sounds "close enough," and that's just exacerbated in the case of children

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by bambax »

Barrin92 wrote: post #6
ergocoder wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But drinking hydroxic acid is not stupid. I wish people drink more hydroxic acid. Would have been healthier. So, YouTube now bans a scientifically accurate video?

Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things, like say, confusing hydroxic acid with hydrochloric acid. They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience. Please tell me you're just intentionally being obtuse and don't actually struggle with that point because this is a response I expect on reddit and not HN

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by yunohn »

Barrin92 wrote: post #6
ergocoder wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But drinking hydroxic acid is not stupid. I wish people drink more hydroxic acid. Would have been healthier. So, YouTube now bans a scientifically accurate video?

Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things, like say, confusing hydroxic acid with hydrochloric acid. They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience. Please tell me you're just intentionally being obtuse and don't actually struggle with that point because this is a response I expect on reddit and not HN

I don’t understand the reasoning behind claiming people are stupid and will mistake hydroxic for hydrochloride and die from drinking it - because of a YouTube video. There’s tons of legal material that teaches you infinitely dangerous things, with no “pranks”, just facts. Should we ban all of them too?

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by ratg13 »

yunohn wrote: post #26
Barrin92 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things, like say, confusing hydroxic acid with hydrochloric acid. They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience. Please tell me you're just intentionally being obtuse and don't actually struggle with that point because this is a response I expect on reddit and not HN

I don’t understand the reasoning behind claiming people are stupid and will mistake hydroxic for hydrochloride and die from drinking it - because of a YouTube video. There’s tons of legal material that teaches you infinitely dangerous things, with no “pranks”, just facts. Should we ban all of them too?

Surely you recognize there is a difference between presenting facts and intentionally misleading your audience.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by ratg13 »

bambax wrote: post #25
Barrin92 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things, like say, confusing hydroxic acid with hydrochloric acid. They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience. Please tell me you're just intentionally being obtuse and don't actually struggle with that point because this is a response I expect on reddit and not HN

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

HN is not turning into reddit, however there are some users that come to this site and treat it similarly.

Sometimes a friendly "that's not the way we do things here" is appropriate for newcomers.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by yunohn »

ratg13 wrote: post #27
yunohn wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t understand the reasoning behind claiming people are stupid and will mistake hydroxic for hydrochloride and die from drinking it - because of a YouTube video. There’s tons of legal material that teaches you infinitely dangerous things, with no “pranks”, just facts. Should we ban all of them too?

Surely you recognize there is a difference between presenting facts and intentionally misleading your audience.

Have you checked out the creators channel? What do you mean “misleading your audience”? It’s quite obvious to me that they are not a scientific awareness channel, and shouldn’t be treated like one.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by ratg13 »

yunohn wrote: post #29
ratg13 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely you recognize there is a difference between presenting facts and intentionally misleading your audience.

Have you checked out the creators channel? What do you mean “misleading your audience”? It’s quite obvious to me that they are not a scientific awareness channel, and shouldn’t be treated like one.

I agree with you that they are not a scientific awareness channel, which in my opinion is exactly why this sort of thing should be censored because it is intentionally misleading.

The author has the video re-posted, you can view it yourself.

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