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0 pointsselestify5y ago0 comments

I’m sure the YT algorithms are optimized just fine for whatever revenue metrics they’re maximizing. You and I might just be part of the edge cases that they haven’t bothered improving their models on just yet

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bigfoot6755y ago· 2 in thread

This is such an insightful comment. I find myself falling into the trap of complaining about things that are "broken" all the time too, but you're right: if you're on HN then you're not the customer that most companies are targeting.

bryanrasmussen5y ago

unless one can prove that there is something special about being on HN that makes a person intrinsically different than other consumers I don't think this is a reasonable conclusion. It may be that this can be proven but I would like to see the proof.

If someone posts on a crafting forum, complains about youtube being broken is the conclusion that they are not the customer that most companies are targeting?

or any number of other fora, I doubt the predictor of a single interest is enough to differentiate the person so significantly.

kortilla5y ago

Yes, just posting on a forum alone puts you in the tiny minority of consumers. There are huge swaths of people that barely like to read content, let alone write.

Look at how many youtube videos dominate search results with hundreds of thousands of views for “how to” X when X is trivially described in a few lines of text.

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