My New Youtube Channel BANNED!

[EEVblog]

[jpc]

When you said your new channel was banned and then read out the reason the first thought that entered my head was that it might have been because of the format and name of the new blog, i.e. with Discover in the name and hence the deceptive part of the reason. For while I don't know how fussed Discovery Channel would be about channel names that bear some passing resemblance to theirs I know other main stream media and entertainment sites tend to be quite heavy handed about such things. But no doubt we'll find out soon enough but it is typical of Youtube, just shoot first and screw asking any questions at all.

[tautech]

Unbelievable Dave, treated like you're a learner or something not somebody with ~1K YT vids over how many years ? 

[hendorog]

EEVdiscover looks to be up and working to me. Not sure if it has been restored rather quickly, or they have a weird definition of 'banned' and 'terminated' at Youtube...

Edit; just read the other thread, so they got it back up smartly. Seems google ain't got their smartest bot working on detecting scams...

[Sonny_Jim]

EEVdiscover looks to be up and working to me. Not sure if it has been restored rather quickly, or they have a weird definition of 'banned' and 'terminated' at Youtube...

Edit; just read the other thread, so they got it back up smartly. Seems google ain't got their smartest bot working on detecting scams...

The channel is there, but with no videos.

[Cyberdragon]

Crap! Posted a new thread right after I posted my joke in the old one!

Well, it applies here too so double the funny.

Sometimes I feel that Youtube's servers should get hit by lightning and go

[EEVblog]

Yep, it's back up now, all videos there it seems

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkGvUEt8iQLmq3aJIMjT2qQ

[jpc]

Quote from: evb149 on Today at 03:24:14

...Don't create a "monster" and then complain that you got eaten by it.  Take control of your own media / service while you still can and expect the worst but hope for the best if you're including needless middlemen and "cloud" services in the mix.

I don't disagree with regard to monopolies but what you say about taking control is fine if you're just running a site with a few hundred or so members downloading or streaming the odd few videos per day. However, with the popularity of Dave's sites, just maintaining such a site would be a full time job for at least one someone, let alone the cost of other resources such as bandwidth etc etc. For all its faults, and I have little time for the way they react in circumstances like these, Youtube does at least allow a creator to just concentrate on content creation leaving the rest of the hassle of publishing to them.

[Brumby]

Ah - It's back!

 


Just out of curiosity - did YouTube give an explanation as to what happened?

[Cyberdragon]

Yep, it's back up now, all videos there it seems

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkGvUEt8iQLmq3aJIMjT2qQ

Looks like that guy finally figured out what he was supposed to do with that fire extinguisher.

[Simon]

I wish they would put more effort into banning the scammers with their free energy crap. If you keep clicking through technology videos the suggestions eventually lead to one.

[FrankBuss]

I wish they would put more effort into banning the scammers with their free energy crap. If you keep clicking through technology videos the suggestions eventually lead to one.

Why should Youtube ban these channels? Usually they are just crackpots who don't hurt others and they should have the right to ridicule themselves. And even if they try to sell something, this will be a good lesson for people who buy this crap. But maybe Youtube should add a red warning below such selling videos: "attention: because of the laws of physics, this device won't work as advertised" and with a link to the Simpsons clip "in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics".

[Simon]

Don't hurt others? We live in a society of people hurt by ignorance and misinformation plus they are just making money off the adds.

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[FrankBuss]

Usually there are some useful comments for such videos. And where would you draw the line for banning videos? Would you ban religious crap, too?

[wraper]

Why should Youtube ban these channels? Usually they are just crackpots who don't hurt others and they should have the right to ridicule themselves. And even if they try to sell something, this will be a good lesson for people who buy this crap.

Don't think so. Many of those who buy that crap will never learn it was a scam.

[Simon]

Warm fraud is fraud. And i extend the definition to include being defrauded of time. At the end of the day you have to believe someone if you are to learn but the line between reality and false i formation has become hard to determine.

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[EEVblog]

Ah - It's back!
 
Just out of curiosity - did YouTube give an explanation as to what happened?

Nope 

[Brumby]

That's helpful.   

[Cyberdragon]

Warm fraud is fraud. And i extend the definition to include being defrauded of time. At the end of the day you have to believe someone if you are to learn but the line between reality and false i formation has become hard to determine.

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Doesn't youtube have a policy against scams and fraud? If they are selling anything or promoting a scam then techically, yes, they should be banned. If not, can't bust them.

P.S. this gave me a new tagline idea...

[Simon]

If we replaced morals and common decency with laws everyone would complain. You can't legislate for everything but telling lies seems to be completely acceptable these days.

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[ElektronikLabor]

The same thing happened to one of my videos two months ago.
YouTube deleted the video without any warning and only with the same general statement.
They even warned me, that if I violate their guidelines again, they will delete my whole account; but I don't even know what kind guidelines I supposed to have violated! 

The video was online again after two hours without any excuse and without any explanation. 

Every time I upload a video, I have that fear that it gets deleted again 

[madires]

My guess is that whoever implemented the algorithm finding duplicated videos forgot to add a simple check for the uploader's account (same account -> ok / different accounts -> fishy). It's obvious that YouTube have to automate everything to deal with the gazillions of videos, but they should put more effort into reducing false positives. Things like this banned channel are embarrassing for YouTube. Playing with AI and quantum computing they've messed up a simple check

[ElektronikLabor]

My guess is that whoever implemented the algorithm finding duplicated videos forgot to add a simple check for the uploader's account (same account -> ok / different accounts -> fishy).

I think they implemented such an algorithm, but the other way around. There are a lot of accounts on YouTube that upload videos from other channels without any problems.
BUT:
Once I uploaded a video and realized that its audio and video on YT were out of sync, although the original video on my PC did not have that problem.
I rendered the video again and uploaded it again without publishing it, only as private video. I wanted to check if that sync problem remains.
The second video was blocked some minutes after uploading!! Even Though it was private and not published!!   

[Simon]

Time for a microsoft and google merger, that way we only have one company to be frustrated with

[Brumby]

   Oh ... that is an instant headache!