Re:Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets
by JoshTriplett on Friday October 09, 2015 @10:39PM
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> A better way to filter those out algorithmically would be to simply look at the thumbs-up vs thumbs-down ratio.
> The ones with misleading titles/thumbnails often have far more down-votes than up-votes
Especially once the total votes pass a certain threshold. Below a certain threshold, any activity makes something interesting; you wouldn't want to let a handful of downvotes bury something early on (as in, 4 upvotes and 6 downvotes). But once you hit the hundreds or thousands of votes, the ratio should take over.
> The ones with misleading titles/thumbnails often have far more down-votes than up-votes
Especially once the total votes pass a certain threshold. Below a certain threshold, any activity makes something interesting; you wouldn't want to let a handful of downvotes bury something early on (as in, 4 upvotes and 6 downvotes). But once you hit the hundreds or thousands of votes, the ratio should take over.