Rigol Teardown Video TAKEN DOWN

[EEVblog]

Just woke up to find my latst #823 Rigol teardown video has been taken down.
I cannot even get into my Youtube account without hitting acknowledge.
First time this has happened, what do I do now?
How do I find out why it was taken down? (I have an idea why and by whom)
Although it does mention spam and links to this page:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801973
So presumably that's the reasons why? If so it has to be an automated flagging mistake.
Should I hit "Acknowledge"?

[Hydrawerk]

Use dailymotion instead. 
http://www.dailymotion.com/user/eevblog/1

[crispy_tofu]

Hopefully it was a mistake and not the other person again...

[c4757p]

I don't like the wording of that with the Acknowledge button. Don't click, contact them.

[marshallh]

I bet it's the troll of Christmas past... We all know who it is 


Maybe Rigol forgot to blacktop/remark their FPGA/DACs in this one... Wouldn't want their competition finding out what off the shelf parts they use!

[EEVblog]

Hopefully it was a mistake and not the other person again...

I hope so.

[EEVblog]

I don't like the wording of that with the Acknowledge button. Don't click, contact them.

I honestly don't even know how to contact them.
Might see if I can dig up a direct Youtube contact out of the archives.

[TheAmmoniacal]

As I heard said "Let's hope Rigol didn't just pull a Siglent"

[mikeselectricstuff]

Can't see a problem with the acknowledge button - just indicating that you've read it.

[AF6LJ]

Contact YouTube and find out what is going on.

[Wytnucls]

Read this:

[ataradov]

That's stupid. There was nothing bad (reputation-wise) in that teardown.

I wonder how many votes from the "community" are required to do that to a channel.

[Macbeth]

I'm pretty sure that if Sagan accidentally bashed the keyboard/mouse and clicked the Acknowledge button then it will not stand up in a court of law that you acknowledge anything.

ETA: Also why is EEVBlog so slow right now? Is there a DOS attack starting up? Someone lost his mojo again?

[c4757p]

Nobody wants it to go that far, though. Avoid making trouble for yourself.

[Whales]

Google loves its one-choice dialogs.  They really give me the irks.

[mikeselectricstuff]

I wonder if it was something as stupid as a false spam detection of multiple copies of the same content based on multiple matches of "rigol teardown"

[Len]

I wonder if it was something as stupid as a false spam detection of multiple copies of the same content based on multiple matches of "rigol teardown"

No, I don't think it could be that. There are many channels that have multiple videos with similar titles.

[TheUnnamedNewbie]

From what I have seen to date, the marketing guys at Rigol are smart enought to not pull a move like this. But you never know. I would contact youtube no matter what, becuaee you need to learn what it was in the video that actually broke their rules, as it was clearly nothing obvious... For all you know you might unwillingly do it againand get yet another strike...

[mewyn]

I didn't get a chance to see the video, was there anything at all that someone could mistake for misleading or scammy words?  I wouldn't mind seeing it if a mirror exists (I haven't had a chance to watch this one myself).

Dave -- I sent you a PM on the issue; can you take a look at it if you have a chance.

[continuo]

It's available again! 

[vinicius.jlantunes]

Yeap, up again!
But someone made a good point abot Dailymotion before.

Dave, are you continuing to upload there as an alternative, or do they automatically pull it for you?

[TheUnnamedNewbie]

Awesome! Now I can finish watching it. Dave, anything new on the reason why it was pulled in the first place?

[Macbeth]

Aww, I knew she'll be alright! Bonzer! Total ripper! She's a bewdy! Chuck some chucks on the barby to celebrate!

[Chipguy]

I was just thinking: Has Dave mentioned Dailymotion or and other Youtube competitors in the video?
What about these new "rules" Youtube laid out for content producers?
Wasn't there something basically like "Do not mention non-Youtube support networks" like Patreaon &Co
Or "Do not put your own advertising breaks into your videos" etc.

Maybe some minion at the youtube video reviewing department didn't get what was going on in the video and therefore hit the wrong button
All this could be a wakeup call to see if other video platforms would be as good as youtube is, and be suitable as a replcement/extension.
I use youtube a lot but I am not "married" to it (that makes more sense when you say that in german but I think you get what I mean).
And I would watch the video on any other platform as well. Most important is that the content creators get a fair share of the amount the platform makes from ads.

[EEVblog]

Wasn't there something basically like "Do not mention non-Youtube support networks" like Patreaon &Co

If that's the case then half the prominent Youtubers would be taken down.

Maybe some minion at the youtube video reviewing department didn't get what was going on in the video and therefore hit the wrong button

I doubt a human was ever involved, except to write the automated code.

Anyway, it's magically back up, and I have no idea why.
Account restored, I never had to hit Acknowledge, and no mention of it anywhere ever happening! 

[continuo]

Maybe some minion at the youtube video reviewing department didn't get what was going on in the video and therefore hit the wrong button

But somebody had to file a complaint before they took action and pulled it off yt...



So the questions are, who did it and why? 

[Ampere]

Maybe Rigol wasn't happy that you called them out on those CapXon caps. 

CapXon? CapXoff.

Thankfully, I get my EEVBlog fix through BitTorrent. Problems like this are why I don't like YouTube. They don't care about the users and they REALLY don't care about the content producers. They probably won't even tell you what you supposedly did wrong until you've already clicked the accept button. I have my doubts that a real person has even glanced at the case.

Google puts too much faith in their automated systems.

[Halcyon]

 

We can't have missing EEVblog episodes! Please keep us updated Dave on your progress.

Could you perhaps re-upload it as "#823 - The Episode that wasn't" so we can download it? :-)

[hendorog]

Presumably Google just automatically take videos down after x complaints. (for x > 0)
Because the video was new the stats would look bad - i.e. 10 views and 1 complaint = 10%

Then they review them manually and restore them - which obviously takes a bit of time.

I think its just crowd-sourcing - i.e. why have a super fancy 'naughty/bad video checker' when they can get their users to do the work instead?

[Richard Crowley]

I am quite surprised at the symbol on the button at the upper right of the LCD screen.
That is quite simply the famous logo of the CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) here in the US.
I wouldn't be surprised if that symbol got "revised" in subsequent builds of this product.
It might not even be beyond the realm of possibility that was the "offense" that triggered the take-down?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS#Logos

[Chipguy]

...
Anyway, it's magically back up, and I have no idea why.
Account restored, I never had to hit Acknowledge, and no mention of it anywhere ever happening! 

I am glad that it kinda resolved itself. But it feels like a failure in a circuit board that shows once, just to disappears by itself without repair or chance to diagnose it. You won't trust that circuit board anymore.
Same for Youtube. So easy for them to take away an important part of your income.
It shows that content creators are basically at their mercy and they could do whatever they want. Scary!

[Chipguy]

So it turns out that Dave has some fans working at Google and they got the issue escalated.
In the end it seems to be resolved without a trace it ever happened.

The world never stops to amaze me.

[Ampere]

Maybe Rigol wasn't happy that you called them out on those CapXon caps. 

Rigol won't be nearly as popular as it is without Dave.

They are not stupid.

Merely a joke. Besides, I think that Dave showed the signal generator in a very favorable way.

I am quite surprised at the symbol on the button at the upper right of the LCD screen.
That is quite simply the famous logo of the CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) here in the US.
I wouldn't be surprised if that symbol got "revised" in subsequent builds of this product.
It might not even be beyond the realm of possibility that was the "offense" that triggered the take-down?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS#Logos

I've heard of YouTube's automated systems flagging music, but apparently it's capable of flagging imagery as well.

"Everything from imagery to music gets flagged,"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/07/nasa_dmca_takedown/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/07/nasa_dmca_takedown/

Sounds plausible. But Dave's message clearly says that it was flagged for "spam".

[Barny]

In the last time i've seen that some "bigger" youtuber and streamer at Twitch get targeted by "Report" bots to get videos and or channels down.

At the same time the video of Dave got down, a sub-chanel of one of the biggest german youtuber / streamer got striked down.

I think there is rolling a big hate- / troll wave at the moment.

[hendorog]

So it turns out that Dave has some fans working at Google and they got the issue escalated.

Really? Far more likely the normal process worked and service was restored. Occams Razor.

Escalating anything at a big organisation is a slow process. This video was down for a few hours at most. Not a big deal...

[Galenbo]

That's stupid. There was nothing bad (reputation-wise) in that teardown.

I wonder how many votes from the "community" are required to do that to a channel.

They clearly are too big.
Shameless the way how they take down the video and then send the maker in some labyrinth of pages and/or phonecentral.

Makes me think of all other organisations that are too big, monopolists or false-competition.

They could at least have given the specific reason and the used logic.

[PA0PBZ]

So it turns out that Dave has some fans working at Google and they got the issue escalated.

Really? Far more likely the normal process worked and service was restored. Occams Razor.

Escalating anything at a big organisation is a slow process. This video was down for a few hours at most. Not a big deal...

[hendorog]

So it turns out that Dave has some fans working at Google and they got the issue escalated.

Really? Far more likely the normal process worked and service was restored. Occams Razor.

Escalating anything at a big organisation is a slow process. This video was down for a few hours at most. Not a big deal...

Wow, thanks - I stand corrected.

[rdl]

I noticed the CBS logo on that button right away, but it wasn't until after I made the post that it occurred to me that it could have been the reason for the video to be taken down.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-823-rigol-dsg815-rf-signal-generator-teardown/msg807796/#msg807796

[Tim F]

I am quite surprised at the symbol on the button at the upper right of the LCD screen.
That is quite simply the famous logo of the CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) here in the US.
I wouldn't be surprised if that symbol got "revised" in subsequent builds of this product.
It might not even be beyond the realm of possibility that was the "offense" that triggered the take-down?

https://comiccongeek.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/cbs-eye-con-icon-logos-header.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS#Logos

Heh, good spotting. I'll bet someone thought "we should put an eye symbol on the button", then put "eye symbol" into google image search and that came up.

[Cyberdragon]

Could you imagine if this happened to say...pewdiepie...

"we have confirmed reports of...nuclear detonations outside the Youtube headquarters. It appears to have been caused by the buildup of anger converting into matter according to the equation E=mc² where E is entropy, m is madness, and c² is crap squared" :p

[Nerull]

Maybe some minion at the youtube video reviewing department didn't get what was going on in the video and therefore hit the wrong button

But somebody had to file a complaint before they took action and pulled it off yt...



So the questions are, who did it and why? 

You know eevblog has its own obsessive troll who follows any mention of eevblog all over the internet and posts spam about it, right? You could make a pretty safe bet exactly who is filing complaints.

And commenters demanding Dave give up his source of income to assuage their offense at a video temporarily being taken down and then restored is rather...short sighted.