Valuable content or?

[Jon]

Not ignoring. This is a valid issue on our table now, being discussed both on the forum and in our latest batch of forum feedback PMs. I have a reply drafted, but I need to chop it down in length (hint, hint YouTubers ). I'd like to wait for a few more replies too.

We are separating the jealpaul issue (which we are addressing right now) from the low-quality content issue, because the issue with the videos that jealpaul posted is not an issue of quality. Those were perfectly good videos; the problem was the copying. jealpaul's fraud was successful (at first) because he exposed a weakness of ours: he crossed a language/culture gap better than we did, by finding non-English ("non-Western" is reasonable here too) videos and presenting them on our English language forum as his own. In fact, the jealpaul issue has opened our eyes even further to the excellent tool building that is going on in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe (jealpaul was actually posting from a Vietnamese IP, but it looks like he favored targeting Russian language videos for copying). Some of our best tool builders come from that part of the world. That (again, kinda similar but mostly separate) issue can be addressed with active reachout to tool builders from that region. For example, if those videos were posted on this forum by their original creators, because they were encouraged to do so by a bilingual social media worker working for us, it would be a 100% win.

If you haven't yet replied to our recent batch of feedback requests, check your PMs and you can reply with an expectation of privacy, or of course you can just reply publicly in this thread.