Re:YouTube is hiding comments mentioning “OpenStreetMap”
by xg15 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:34PM
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> They are there to help promote a broad feeling of engagement.
I guess by this point they could streamline that process (and avoid a lot of harrassment) by simply generating all comments with GPT3.
On popular videos, comments with the most upvotes (often containing important info) are no longer shown at the top, even when sorting by 'top comments'. And even when they are from the uploader. YouTube uses some other esoteric criteria to decide what you should see.
What I'm trying to say is, if you're using YT comments for actual discussion or recording information then you're doing it wrong. They are there to help promote a broad feeling of engagement. It does not matter in the slightest to YT whether every visitor to the page sees the same set of comments, its irrelevant.