Anonymous #2 1d

That’s literally what the search bar does? Are we deadass?

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Anonymous #1 1d

Well the search bar is more literal, videos need to include what you searched in the title or tags, this wouldn’t need that. You just type in “funny animal videos” and it’d give you more funny animal videos. Also how else would you be able to customize the algorithm if you can’t type anything in?

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Anonymous #2 1d

When you are searching for a video it’s looking through the tags, description, title, hashtags, etc… that’s what a search bar is, I don’t really see a way to innovate on that. Typing in “funny animal videos” already gives you what you search for on TikTok, YouTube, and whatever else. And the algorithm is already custom per user, that’s why they have it so each user can see things that they want to see.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Yeah, it’s based on the tags description and title, not the content itself. If someone posted a funny video about their dog with the title “Look what my dog did today #dogs” the search result wouldn’t show that video if you type in “funny animal videos” even though it’s a funny animal video, that’s the problem. Also while you can influence your algorithm, you don’t have 100% control. You can’t force it to show you anything, and I’m sure that’s one of the points of OP’s idea.

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Anonymous #2 1d

It also depends on the comments in some cases. Also, the videos are almost always going to be what the title and other metadata says. Users already basically control their own algorithm too, you see what you want to watch. If you keep watching clips of dogs you are going to keep getting clips of dogs. This “problem” already has a solution.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Key word “basically” but not fully. I can’t just tell my algorithm what to show me, the best I can do is watch more of what I want it to show me and hope it recommends more of it, but firstly, that probably takes a lot of watching said content, and secondly isn’t guaranteed to help, and thirdly even if it does work it might not last very long because your algorithm changes often that it might leave your algorithm anyway when you don’t want it to.

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Anonymous #2 1d

So you would be fine with only being shown a couple things on TikTok? I kind of see what you mean but I don’t see the practicalness of it? Like why would you want complete control over everything you see on your algorithm? Also if you go on a brand new YouTube account and watch one Minecraft video or any video you’ll then get a bunch of Minecraft videos or whatever “niche” video of what you watched.

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Anonymous #1 1d

I’d want complete control because then I can tell it what to show me and what not to show me easier. Also it doesn’t just have to be a couple things, it could be 5 or 25 or 100 or 200, whatever I want it to recommend me. It’d be way more reliable than search and the automatic algorithm. Even just being able to suggest something to the algorithm would be nice, rather than watching a lot of videos so it gets the hint. Plus, with YouTube a lot of the algorithm is channel based, not topic based.

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Anonymous #2 1d

That’s like what it is already is it not? Also you would never be able to discover anything new with it working like this no? I think you are undermining the algorithm, it does what it does and it is good at it. Also I think there is a thing that you can press on videos somewhere to not recommend those types of videos to you at least on YouTube they have that.

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Anonymous #1 1d

It’s not always good, at least once a week there’s a period where on YouTube all the suggested videos I don’t want to watch, and even refreshing doesn’t help. Also, I don’t want to say I’m not interested in a video because I don’t know what it’ll do to the algorithm. If I say “not interested” on “Ghost of Yotei -Before you buy” maybe it’ll stop recommending Gameranx videos, instead of ghost of yotei videos. It’s not easy to convey what I want or don’t want the algorithm to show me.

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Anonymous #2 1d

YouTube has an option to not recommend the channel or not recommend the video. The algorithm shows you what it thinks you want to watch, if you don’t see anything you want to watch then you have to either not watch YouTube or search for whatever you might want to watch. But yeah saying “don’t recommend channel” and “not interested” are two completely different things, one is for the channel and the other is for that type of content.

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