[_boffin_]

This is a great start, but there's a huge portion of data you're just flat out missing from this--comments.

There's so much useful information inside user comments.

I have a theory that I'm truthfully too lazy to test out, but I'm presuming that lower quality videos are going to have an average comment text complixicity number lower than the higher quality videos, especially as your topic gets more specific/technical.

Take a look textstat(1) for some examples.

(1). https://github.com/shivam5992/textstat

[speedgoose]

Unfortunately comments are known to be important for ranking. I see more and more Youtubers asking their audience to write comments.

The carwow channel for example is definitely asking to answer stupid debates in the comments to improve its ranking. The vilebrequin channel does the same but as a joke and explain that it's to improve the ranking. The community then write a lot of long and stupid comments to improve the ranking.

[bryanrasmussen]

writing a comment, and doing likes, both improve the ranking.

Writing long complex comments that are still readable would be a lot harder to ask of your audience, you would have to inspire it. Therefore something like this is maybe better for the ranking https://medium.com/glose-team/how-to-evaluate-text-readabili...

on edit: changed wrong comments to ranking