Right now there is a controversy going on at youtube and spam is one of the central issues. The controversy with the legitimacy of buying and selling video views. Companies like Yellow Thunder Media are willing to sell youtubers video views on the video of their choice, and the major way they raise view count to the desired level is by spam sharing videos through youtube. Youtubers that are for buying views say that its ok because youtube has not spoken out against it or banned the videos. In theory buying views is supposed to be like buying advertising, the hope is that is that if you buy 20,000 views on a good video that some of the people watching will enjoy the content and become subscribers and watch all of the channels content in the future, therefore making the youtuber more money in the long term. The problem is that only a portion of people that receive shared videos from people that they don’t know watch the video and an even smaller number actually subscribe, probably only a few hundred or even a few dozen in thousands. This is why some youtubers are anti spam and buying views, they say that because a video view is bought with spam it cheapens the view because the viewer did not seek out the video because it was of interest to them but because it was forced upon them, and they blame view buying for Youtube’s comparatively low dollar per view number composition rate, its rumored to be around three dollars per thousand view. Right now I think that there is not a lot that can be done about view buying, until Youtube comes out either for or against it. I don’t think that buying views is necessarily cheating like some do and its generally easy to spot when a video with bought views goes viral, as its comments and likes will be disproportional to its video views.
Spam
just making sure it works-
make sure your gif animation is less than 460 pixels wide…
My friend James Conrad wrote this article- he was paid $20 bucks to do it (this is the new economy)!
http://www.schmoozd.com/2012/02/28/watch-what-you-post-online-it-just-might-haunt-you-forever/
For the ones that don’t know, Call of Duty is an online multiplayer game that is most commonly played on the Xbox and the PS3 (PlayStation3). The newest version of Call of Duty, which is Modern Warfare 3 (MW3), comes with Mission Mode, Special Ops mode and of course Multiplayer. You can get online and play any of these modes with players all around the world. When you play multiplayer, you start competing against everybody all around the world and things can get really intense, racial, and abusive. Players can send you messages and tell you, “you suck” and anything else they might want to say to you. “You suck” is probably the nicest thing you’ll hear. Im just trying to keep things appropriate for class. When you have a headset you can talk smack directly to the players you are playing against and even your own teammates when they aren’t playing well,”sucking” and getting killed a lot. While you play the game and have a headset, particularly “Team DeathMatch”, you are allowed to talk to the players on your team for “Strategic Purposes” and the other team can’t hear you. When you kill somebody from the other team, they’ll be able to hear you for a good 2 seconds so you can say something to them and then they get blocked out from your team again. So the game is pretty much designed for talking s**t. The smack talking often gets racial. I’ve heard players call other players all kinds of racial slurs. Me and my friends are a perfect example. When I play with my friends we talk to each other in spanish when we play. Everything we say is in spanish and all the other players can hear us talking to each other. We’ll be minding our own business and all of a sudden well get told to go back to Mexico and even go back to work at the farms. We’ll also get called “wetbacks”, “beaners”, and other racial slurs. This just starts a huge online argument with all kinds of cussing. You can be in a “lobby” and there’ll be 12 players talking s**t to each other at the same time. You can tell that some players take everything to heart and get extremely mad. You’ll also hear all kinds of threats. I could go on and on. There was this one case that this 46 year old man actually started choking an 13 year old kid when the little kid gunned him down in the game. The kid ended up being okay but its crazy how the old mans anger was caused by Call of Duty. The link to the article is posted below. I will also provide a 2nd link where this person talks about the online Call of Duty s**t talking and racial slurs.
Old man Chokes Kid
http://www.gamefront.com/little-kid-assaulted-by-creepy-old-guy-over-call-of-duty-pwning/
Racial Slurs and Trash Talking
I was aware of cyberbullying but i did not know there were so many types out there. We all know that bullying have been around for a long time. Bullying online can take many forms just like what we can see in the real world. Harassment against gender, race, and even education or how much knowledge one has. Bullying was defined to be someone from school making or picking on you. But things have change today, instead of face to face bullying most of the attacking happens online. The cyber bullies ages vary, whoever has a mean thought and knows how to use the World Wide Web, they can attack their victims. Its not your basic “being mean to someone” , some attacks can be sexual too. Hotpots for cyber-bullying happens now on chat rooms, online games and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. But one can prevent attacks and make their page a bully free zone. For example: Facebook. Facebook has come up with a Timeline page cover that show your history show old post and things you have done online since you’ve became a member. yes it is creepy but there are options to help you hide things you do not want others to say, especially if it will cause drama, and Facebook drama is childish and a pain. this video show you how you can remove the timeline from your Facebook page. In my opinion the timeline is scary because it gives others who are not your friends a incite of who you personally are instead of just the basic information. If you like the timeline and only want to let others see only a little about you, there are options to fix the setting to your liking–you can make your post public or not.
digital literacy 3 