YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

Post by gonzo41 » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:33 PM UTC

logifail wrote: post #21

pornel wrote: post #10

There is a massive YouTube and Instagram industry of outright faking craft and cooking tips. They're not just bad or a stretch, they're intentionally fabricated, made at scale by TheSoul Publishing with 550 employees. That's because making cool things looking surprisingly easy goes viral way better than actual reality-grounded instructions, and for the adtech giants nothing matters except the number of clicks. Before…

> Before people realize that they can't really make a 3-layer cake in a toaster Our 12-year-old recently tried to make himself "cheese on toast" by putting both cheese and uncooked bread into the (almost brand new, upright) toaster. Aaargh! Cue the house full of smoke, a stern reprimand, then a couple of hours of my time wasted on removing every last piece of burnt greasy cheese from inside the toaster, followed by s…

Post by notdonspaulding » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

ziml77 wrote: post #240

julianlam wrote: post #96

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Well then this employee must've done it wrong, because I cook bacon in my toaster over (and now an air fryer) all the time. However, you do need a tray on which the bacon sits, which was perhaps your employee's mistake.

Are people using the word toaster to refer to two different appliances in this thread? In American English a toaster is a device that holds bread vertically between heating elements. There's a similarly named device called a toaster oven which is essentially a standard electric oven that's been shrunk down to countertop size.

Post by lotsofpulp » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

InefficientRed wrote: post #269

lotsofpulp wrote: post #169

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It would never even occur to me to watch a video on finding my AirPods case. Either there is an article or forum post for it, or I need to post a question on a forum, but no way am I sifting through the garbage that is YouTube.

Same. It's probably a generational thing, with the split at maybe 20 or something where video became both searchable and trivial in terms of bandwidth. But, to be fair, the Google-as-front-door internet has become totally useless for these types of tasks as well. Those wiki-style pages with huge walls of text offering nonsense advice are a plague.

Post by Dylan16807 » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:38 PM UTC

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #192

JCharante wrote: post #61

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How hard is it to use manual review for videos that have at least a million views?

What makes you think they don't use manual review for highly-viewed videos? The video in question wouldn't have triggered that manual review threshold because it's not even close to a million views. I would actually assume that highly-viewed videos are moved up much higher in the manual review priority queue, as it only makes sense. The controversies like the one in the article are generally among moderately popular…

Post by cupofpython » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:39 PM UTC

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #212

cupofpython wrote: post #98

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So drop it off at a salvage location. OP was complaining about salvaging it, like it was necessary. If you want to do is as a fun personal project, go for it, but it is wasteful of human time to salvage something that cheap rather than add it to a scrap pile for a professional salvage company to process in bulk. As a bonus, the kid learns that if you arent careful with your items they may break and be gone. you dont…

It's totally reasonable for an individual to say "it's not worth my time and effort to fix this, I'll just replace it." Taking a moral stand against repair-and-reuse in general is weird. Some people are on a budget where replacing even a $25 toaster is not a painless expense. Some people don't like producing unnecessary waste. And throwing it away without replacing it punishes everyone in the house for the kid's mist…