http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/03/major-user-revolt-on-youtube/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/03/major-user-revolt-on-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-2073 Best of eBay Blogs » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 Community Management Tue, 16 May 2006 07:16:12 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/03/major-user-revolt-on-youtube/#comment-2073 [...] Jeff Nolan alerted me to user revolts at youTube over heavy handed management of its community. Miel, a power user of YouTube has “quit” youTube. In his own words. Okay. I’m out of YouTube. I refuse to use the service any longer. Recent changes made it very obvious they don’t want users with large archives. The site is very very slow and I have over 30 pages of videos. Browsing to page 28 took me exactly 12 minutes, whereas before the interface update I could just click the page I wanted to see. Turns out a few of my uploaded videos were rejected due to inappropriate content, which I totally don’t get, because nobody got killed, no nudity was shown and no dirty language was in it. It didn’t feature any stolen music and I didn’t sing. Then why is it inappropriate? Because some puritan mind flagged the movie in the hopes it would make the world a better place? Well I’ve had it with these random rejections. I don’t take it anymore. There is totally no way to defend you against this, you get no warning at all if a clip has been flagged, you just have to come to the conclusion whilst browsing your video archive. This particular clip was uploaded in September last year. It’s been on there for months, and all of the sudden the content isn’t appropriate anymore? [...] [...] Jeff Nolan alerted me to user revolts at youTube over heavy handed management of its community. Miel, a power user of YouTube has “quit” youTube. In his own words. Okay. I’m out of YouTube. I refuse to use the service any longer. Recent changes made it very obvious they don’t want users with large archives. The site is very very slow and I have over 30 pages of videos. Browsing to page 28 took me exactly 12 minutes, whereas before the interface update I could just click the page I wanted to see. Turns out a few of my uploaded videos were rejected due to inappropriate content, which I totally don’t get, because nobody got killed, no nudity was shown and no dirty language was in it. It didn’t feature any stolen music and I didn’t sing. Then why is it inappropriate? Because some puritan mind flagged the movie in the hopes it would make the world a better place? Well I’ve had it with these random rejections. I don’t take it anymore. There is totally no way to defend you against this, you get no warning at all if a clip has been flagged, you just have to come to the conclusion whilst browsing your video archive. This particular clip was uploaded in September last year. It’s been on there for months, and all of the sudden the content isn’t appropriate anymore? [...]

]]> http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/03/major-user-revolt-on-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-1893 Hitchhiker’s Guide to 650 :: Web 2.0 Community Management :: May :: 2006 Mon, 08 May 2006 22:35:13 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/03/major-user-revolt-on-youtube/#comment-1893 [...] Jeff Nolan alerted me to user revolts at youTube over heavy handed management of its community. Miel, a power user of YouTube has “quit” youTube. In his own words. Okay. I’m out of YouTube. I refuse to use the service any longer. Recent changes made it very obvious they don’t want users with large archives. The site is very very slow and I have over 30 pages of videos. Browsing to page 28 took me exactly 12 minutes, whereas before the interface update I could just click the page I wanted to see. Turns out a few of my uploaded videos were rejected due to inappropriate content, which I totally don’t get, because nobody got killed, no nudity was shown and no dirty language was in it. It didn’t feature any stolen music and I didn’t sing. Then why is it inappropriate? Because some puritan mind flagged the movie in the hopes it would make the world a better place? Well I’ve had it with these random rejections. I don’t take it anymore. There is totally no way to defend you against this, you get no warning at all if a clip has been flagged, you just have to come to the conclusion whilst browsing your video archive. This particular clip was uploaded in September last year. It’s been on there for months, and all of the sudden the content isn’t appropriate anymore? [...] [...] Jeff Nolan alerted me to user revolts at youTube over heavy handed management of its community. Miel, a power user of YouTube has “quit” youTube. In his own words. Okay. I’m out of YouTube. I refuse to use the service any longer. Recent changes made it very obvious they don’t want users with large archives. The site is very very slow and I have over 30 pages of videos. Browsing to page 28 took me exactly 12 minutes, whereas before the interface update I could just click the page I wanted to see. Turns out a few of my uploaded videos were rejected due to inappropriate content, which I totally don’t get, because nobody got killed, no nudity was shown and no dirty language was in it. It didn’t feature any stolen music and I didn’t sing. Then why is it inappropriate? Because some puritan mind flagged the movie in the hopes it would make the world a better place? Well I’ve had it with these random rejections. I don’t take it anymore. There is totally no way to defend you against this, you get no warning at all if a clip has been flagged, you just have to come to the conclusion whilst browsing your video archive. This particular clip was uploaded in September last year. It’s been on there for months, and all of the sudden the content isn’t appropriate anymore? [...]

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