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Why the Number of O's In LOL Matter On YouTube
karthikmns writes "It turns out that Google uses the number of o's in a lol to weigh how funny a video is. In a blog post Google explains how they came up with an algorithm to gauge a video's comedic potential. So if you want to watch funnier videos, make sure to add some extra o's or help them by visiting their Comedy Slam and voting."
From the people that used extra o's in Goooooogle to signal that there are more pages of search results.
I suppose that for certain people, adding o's is the plain text approach to add stars
If you're over the age of 13 and you use more than one "O", you should kill yourself.
Not much. On Slashdot, only the number of digits in your user ID matters, you 7-digit noob.
So, we have loool, lolololol and lollll. The acronyms seem to break. Especially the first one.
Laugh Out Out Out Loud, Laugh Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud, and Laugh Out Loud Loud Loud Loud Loud.
I suppose the middle one could be Laugh Out Loud Out Laugh Out Loud Out Laugh, or possibly the recursive Lololol Out Loud (where Lololol is Lolol Out Loud and Lolol is Lol Out Loud),
I'll fill in the 5-digit spot; waiting for the 4-digit reply.
"Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley
4 digits as requested.
Darn you, now those creepers with exceedingly lower ID numbers are going to start coming out of the woodwork, calling everyone with a higher ID a noob.
I hope they are keeping in mind how low the bar is when studying YouTube comments.
Behind every terrifying comment on a youtube video is a member of the youtube audience. The very same audience this rating system is supposed to speak to.
I’ll accept that youtube comment section has such a bad rap that a lot of people who would make intelligent comments don’t bother, but I think in general youtube reminds us that there are a huge number of very unintelligent people out there and they probably make up the bulk of youtube viewership!
i believe Mr Anonymous Coward qualifies as the 3 digit...is there a 2 digit in the crowd?
Anybody who's anybody knows that the ultimate lol is the ROFLCOPTER.
Or just the bulk of people who would bother commenting on random totally insignificant videos (i.e. most of Youtube).
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Google also measures the numbers of X's and O's in your emails to determine how much you love your mother.
3 digits. Not once, but twice! Beat that!
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
I think they've got the relationship wrong. The number of 'o's is inversely proportional to the IQ of the target audience.
So "lawl" doesn't count? Or "lal"?
Data would be so disillusioned... (Brownie points if you get the reference!)
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LL
So google has developed artificial intelligence that is forced to read YouTube comments all day? I wonder how many lines of code it took to keep it from commiting suicide.
... a measure of how funny a video is, or actually a measure of how stupid its viewers are?
Wait, this is YouTube comments, right? I think I just answered my own question.
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EnsnTaco?
noob
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The importance of a score is determined by the number of O's in "Gooooooooooooooooooooal!"
I am officially gone from
"So if you want to watch funnier videos.."
It seems that if you type in a long looooooooooool to google then it will only give you videos with that exact number of o's.
Or at least, it shows search results from long looooooooolz to short looolz
This is getting dumb.
- We need scientific notation for lol, lulz, etc. like lol^50, lulz^150, etc. it's just not elegant now.
- We need a way to tell google to show ALL of them, funniest first. Google: video lol^50 to lol^40 desc
Otherwise what's the point of encoding video this way.
- Diminishing returns... and yet Google can't search beyond around 130 o's.
I calculate the funniest thousand videos or so are locked away from us in the long tail beyond google's search capability!
Google: looooooooool video
10 o's: 875,000 results
20 o's: 209,000
30 o's: 60,900
40 o's: 31,200
50 o's: 10,600
60 o's: 5,220
70 o's: 2,790
100 o's: 1,830
120 o's: 728
unfortunately many more than this and the word is too long and not allowed.
Google is scraping the bottom of the barrel on search "signals" here. Originally Google used links as a metric, and those were spammed with link farms. In 2010, they started using more "social signals". Google Places turned into a spam farm, and Yelp filled up with obviously bogus reviews. As Google used more "social" signals, Twitter filled up with spam tweets, Facebook got phony "likes", and a market developed in Google "+1"'s.
Social spam is worse than link spam. With link spam, spammers had to pay to set up and maintain link farms of fake sites. There were ways to recognize link farms. With social spam, the social networks host the fake accounts and their spam for free, and fake accounts are harder to recognize. Google tried a tough "real names" policy for Google+, and had to back down in the face of user and political opposition.
Anything Google uses as a signal gets turned to shit. Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social.
Lower 4 digit number, as not requested.
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Iâ(TM)ll accept that youtube comment section has such a bad rap that a lot of people who would make intelligent comments donâ(TM)t bother, but I think in general youtube reminds us that there are a huge number of very unintelligent people out there and they probably make up the bulk of youtube viewership!
There is a FireFox extension called YouTube Comment Snob.
I believe they have a version out for Chrome as well now.
It hides comments if they fail a certain number of rules:
* More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox's built-in spell checker.
* All capital letters
* No capital letters
* Doesn't start with a capital letter
* Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????)
* Excessive capitalization
* Profanity
Ever since I installed that add-on, set to "5 or more spelling mistakes and 4 or more rules fail", most video comment sections average out to 2-3% (That is: 2 or 3 out of every 100 comments) that I can still see.
It's almost as comical as the comments themselves, except at the end I don't want to slit my wrists as much.
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