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Re:YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon v... by myself248 on Monday December 06, 2021 @01:02PM (#29463284)
If Google were a solo schlub in their basement writing code because they didn't have time to do manual review, that would be understandable, even excusable.

But last I checked, they were the #5 largest company in the world.

You'd think that an issue that's obvious to literally everyone who uses the platform would also be obvious to even a handful of manual reviewers, and they could take the fight to the spammers a little more aggressively. Just a smidge. Like, one full-time reviewer, since it appears on my feed with devastating regularity, I'd even apply for the job myself, if it meant I could keep that scourge out of my own recommendations.

I'm left to conclude that maybe the #5 largest company in the world can't afford one full-time reviewer?

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Re:YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon v... by jandrese on Monday December 06, 2021 @05:29PM (#29466552)
More likely they outsource the review job to a contractor who operates out of whichever country currently has the most lax labor laws. The contractor hires only the cheapest labor they can find and sets a quota like reviewing at least 360 complaints every hour for their 12 hour shift. Also, if the workers allow an actual bad faith objection to go through they get penalized.
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