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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by no_butterscotch on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:12PM (#34602195)
> If the YouTube algorithm nukes your account and all your videos, you should be ready to upload them to a new account. Same with anything else digital.

Do you know if this is a common occurrence?

Also, I'm only a YouTube viewer and am not familiar with all the creator tools, problems, communities, etc. But would a creator really re-upload all their back-catalog if deleted? Just to try to get back to views and things?

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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:26PM (#34602417)
I remember someone posting an agonized screed, some time ago, about YT deleting their channel, and all the videos.

Apparently, they had not kept the source/rendered originals of the videos, so it actually clobbered their business.

I am a scarred, limping old coot, and have learned [the hard way] that backups are goooood.

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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by tomcam on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:51PM (#34604125)
> I am a scarred, limping old coot

That is a delightfully evocative phrase

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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by tpxl on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:29PM (#34602465)
A few weeks ago, youtube changed their swearword policy. A creator I follow basically had to delete half their channel or risk termination.
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by patmcc on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:16PM (#34603770)
They're not banning channels based on swearwords (yet, anyway). They are demonetizing videos with swearing - in the first bit, if too much, maybe other rules, but nobody is getting banned from saying 'shit'.
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by Marsymars on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @07:25PM (#34604449)
If you don't want monetization, is swearing in your videos to avoid your subscribers having to watch ads a viable strategy?

(To get around this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube...)

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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by zxcvbn4038 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @07:33PM (#34604528)
Battlestar Galactica did it right - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by mgdlbp on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:22PM (#34605018)
Huh, I was down a yt rabbit hole right around then when some videos suddenly wouldn't load, turned out that I might've been the last-ever viewer of the (small) channel that got banned right at that moment - did make quite an impression. A ban wave might explain that -- I was wondering just how often channels really are being banned that I'd see it happening in real time.
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by MonkeyMalarky on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:12PM (#34603014)
There were a whole bunch of artist and genre specific mixes I used to listen to on yt that are gone now. The uploaders accounts have all been nuked too. The sad thing is I can listen to it all on Spotify but it's not the same.. the creator's did not insignificant work to mix the songs together.
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by chipsa on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:13PM (#34603732)
Maybe not on YouTube, but the gunTubers are having issues with YouTube changing their interpretation of the rules and instantly issuing 3 strikes against them for rule violations. And so, it'd be good to have a back catalog to upload to a different service to keep that older material available.
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