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It wasn't that this player was disrespectful/racist/etc., it's that they were so much better that playing against this player was almost a guaranteed loss.
That sounds like a valid reason to avoid playing against that player.
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That sounds like a valid reason to avoid playing against that player.
Not in ranked games. I'd be the greatest chess player in history if I all I needed to do was block the grand masters.
Honestly, I feel like YouTube recommendation is the _only_ good thing YouTube has lol. I often see a ton of complaints about the recommendations but I've honestly never had an issue. I know that yes, you click on one video and now all the sudden you get 100s of that type... but it sorta works for me since it seems like that "effect" wears off just as fast as it starts. For example, I have a friend that's into cars. I…
Most people don’t understand here that folks at YouTube have probably ran thousands of variations of their algorithms and their current system is likely the best yet for keeping highest engagement on average . The issue might be that majority of the population might love recency bias. Folks here are not representative of general pop but they get overrun by majority preferences.
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Why is everyone pretending that the maximal amount of ad revenue comes doesn’t come from showing you what you want to see? Individual videos don’t pay to be in the recommended feed. There’s no opportunity to see an ad except when you watch a video. YouTube has a perfectly balanced incentive to show you more content you’ll watch. Where is the exclusive choice between (what the user wants to watch) and (what makes more…
Technically correctly, although there is a subtle nuance here. What you want to see is not necessarily the same as what you will end up watching. Just because you dislike a video doesn't mean you wouldn't watch it. Or put another way, you can tell YouTube what you want (to be perceived socially as wanting) to see, but the algorithm knows what you actually want to see.
Except the algorithm doesn't know what I actually want to see. Nobody but YouTube knows what I tell YouTube I like or dislike, so there's not even a theoretical pressure to lie about by wants in order to present an appearance to others.
I'd be curious to know how many additional "wanted" recommendations the system is able to serve by not treating a dislike as a strong negative signal. It seems like there's a tradeoff here, where YouTube figures that if it interpreted a dislike with a heavy hand, it would also knock a bunch of videos you do want (or at least they think you want). Presumably from YouTube's perspective, it's more important that your re…
In practice it doesn't work in the short term but it should work in the long term because Google processes so much data with billions of data points so their algorithms need some time to catch up. Sad but true. The same situation is with search ranks; they update their ranking index every few months or so according to billions of data points they gather with the final word of ranking algorithms. Basically every big i…
In practice, it doesn't work in the long term either. I've been using YouTube regularly for many years.
I wish I could dislike entire genres of things, specifically reaction videos. Laziest “content” ever and they completely takeover results anytime I search for music.
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It's probably companies advertising their products getting salty their new movie or something got 90% downvotes and YT is all too eager to please its ad overlords.
It started when a Joe Biden speech video got disliked into oblivion. We're talking 2 million+ dislikes.
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YouTube doesn't show you ads if you buy Premium.
You need the YouTube Pro Max+ Platinum bundle to get functional search.
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I used to have the same experience of YouTube recommending just more of whatever I just watched, and at most recommendations would stick around for 6 weeks before it forgot about a subject. That was until earlier this year when I watched some videos from MrBallen (camp fire stories based on real events), and ever since then I have gotten my recommendations filled with crazy conspiracy stuff. It stopped recommending h…
If you want to fix it (and I agree it shouldn't be this painful, but you deal with what you got), you can go back in your history and remove the videos from MrBallen from your watch history. This should fix it for good, almost immediately.