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by tylerdinner 2099 days ago
I don't feel these unavoidable disadvantages are as black and white and you describe. To circumvent the fake title/bait & switch practices, you could allow users to flag videos as misleading, vote them as spam, etc. Put the number of flags next to the video, add the ability to not even see flagged videos.

Further, scripts could be used to report video play statistics to the scrape site. Drawback is users would have to add the script to their own site, but adding analytics scripts is common practice.
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jasode 2099 days ago
>To circumvent the fake title/bait & switch practices, you could allow users to flag videos as misleading, vote them as spam, etc.

And now you've re-created the "Amazon 1-star ratings left by competitors instead of real buyers" and/or the "false DMCA takedown claims of public domain or original music".

E.g. an honest person creates a "How to sew a mask at home to protect from COVID" which is the real content but a bunch of coronavirus deniers falsely flag that video as "child pornography".

Game theory is hard and everybody has to think through all the future chess moves that adversaries will use.

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tylerdinner 2099 days ago
Damn you're totally right. You'd have to have a subscription fee and a team of mods to fix that.
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antocv 2099 days ago
> To circumvent the fake title/bait & switch practices, you could allow users to flag videos as misleading, vote them as spam, etc. Put the number of flags next to the video, add the ability to not even see flagged videos.

And who would flag the bad users?

This just increases slightly the discomfort of bad guys, but does not prevent it at all. Instead they will flag competitive videos and such.

Nobody has solved "decentralized trust" yet, if ever.

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