I've recently got a notice on my YouTube channel along the lines of "certain videos have not been consistently updating " and "we are working to resolve this issue".
Blurb about people falsifying their view counts as well.
I know exactly what the "problem" is, I forwarded ("shared") a couple of sequences (birds) to a friend who posted the links to YouTube on his popular Blogsite. This usually results in about 40 or 50 , maybe more, extra"hits" to the videos in question over a fairly short period.
YouTube software has picked this up, hence the slap to my wrist.
Seemingly nothing I can do about this which is the annoying thing. I'm talking about say 100 views when 20 or 30 might be the norm, yet on occasion , recently in fact, I come across absolutely crap video uploads with 1000 plus views.
Is this a hint of the future, where computers decide who's done what and why with absolutely no redress for the poor old human being?
Ron
My account also tells me that from July 11th - 18th viewcounts have not being counted consistently, whether it`s because of them implementing the technology to prevent false accounting?
Something else, I have a Panny BlueRay player that has internet browsing ability, if I log in to my account I can see all my uploads except this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyPDCW0JxSc but it`s viewable by browsing from a PC!
I've recently got a notice on my YouTube channel along the lines of "certain videos have not been consistently updating " and "we are working to resolve this issue".Ron
Hi Ron,
I have little to do with youtube directly, but the notice doesn't sound like a slap on the wrist to me - if it was they wouldn't say "we are working to resolve this issue" which implies it's a problem there end.
..unless I'm missing a point and should be reading between the lines.
From info in your post, nothing else, it sounds like they are assuming, because some videos have a different viewing profile than others, some are not registering views. or perhaps 'repeat views' by same viewer are counted as just one and they've discovered that repeated views via a link have only been counted as one, but actually represent a wide number of viewers (e.g. from the one link in the forum).
Given Barrys post, that also perhaps points to a problem where with so many different viewing devices/protocols, their software currently isn't correctly recording the number of viewers (only distinct accesses).
>Is this a hint of the future, where computers decide who's done what and why with absolutely no redress for the poor old human being?
Do not worry. I vill be back. (Too subtle?)
My account also tells me that from July 11th - 18th viewcounts have not being counted consistently, whether it`s because of them implementing the technology to prevent false accounting?Something else, I have a Panny BlueRay player that has internet browsing ability, if I log in to my account I can see all my uploads except this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyPDCW0JxSc but it`s viewable by browsing from a PC!
July 11th and 18th for me. Co-incidence or because, as you say, new technology ?
Ron