The current alternative just pisses off everyone, and frankly I’m not particularly compelled to cede much opinion currency on the freeze peach crowd anyway, given how it’s often just dogwhistle for openly hostile methodologies.
If it’s manual, a clear rulebook at least gives people the ability to say ‘okay cool I’m going to try and engage with this in good faith’ and do content that doesn’t disagree with it. Yeah there’s always going to be the grey area stuff…but so what? Everything has to deal with it. It’s unavoidable, and they’re not avoiding it now.
Even if it’s algorithmic, there’s no reason the algorithm metrics can’t be published regularly. This all turns into ‘oh it’s the SECRET SAUCE’ but in reality the secret sauce is how you make and establish and implement those metrics. It’s just some youtube leadership going ‘oh god what happens if someone uses this data’ instead of realizing it would improve customer experience to do so.
