I wonder if this will hurt "engagement" metrics with UA-cam, since commenting is one of the ways creators usually drive engagement and get their videos in more of the suggested feeds
For years I’ve been a student and thus banned from becoming a Bonnie Bee. I’m finally in a financially stable place outside of school and so I’m so happy to be a Bonnie Bee.
@@ajs1998 Grey would prefer it if you focused on yourself first. Focus on the schooling as that’s the most important. He’s not going anywhere and he’ll be here when you are done with the schooling. Only after you are in a stable place, he’d welcome the support.
@@ajs1998 Grey states not to give money to support him unless you are financially able to support yourself, and he specifically excludes students from that category.
Feels awkward since my username was already “bee” before this, but this finally encouraged me to join. What Grey said about UA-cam favoring shorts at the cost of long-term videos really hit home with me. I guess UA-cam was trying to rival tiktok with their mindset behind as they offered up to a 10,000 dollar bonus depending on how well it did. As such, minimal effort, low quality content that can be pushed easily for views gets shown to viewers. Meanwhile, high quality, high effort content often suffers at the cost of it and hardly sees anywhere near as much SEO. It’s frustrating, but it’s the nature of things I suppose. Still, it’s amusing to me how I’ve seen certain content creators upload a short, wait a couple months, then upload it again and gets hundreds of thousands of views.
I love that you are doing this. Thank you! I will try to comment and engage on every video you make from now on, to help with that "engagement" score UA-cam likes so much.
I fear putting the comments section behind barriers of entry that require you to already love and support CGP Grey (or at least care about enough to click onto a subreddit) is going to come at the huge cost of creating artificial environments where you will no longer recieve feedback from more "casual viewers" or "people who dislike your content but have something productive to say about it." To me this is ripe grounds for creating an echo chamber of false positivity- fundamentally altering the function of the comments section as a whole and isn't worth it just to get rid of scambots or sexbots. Also the way you frame this pivot in your Patreon post focuses more on gaining more monetary support as the primary goal with the sexbot/chatbot deterrent almost as secondary. But it is the opposite for the UA-cam video itself. I understand and would be happy to support your videos as you are one of my favorite UA-camrs, but not empasizing the obvious monetary gains and even framing it as, "a better way to get rid of sexbots and chatbots" (especially given my critisms with the experiment) feels irresponsible at best and fraudulant at worst.
@@herrabanani Sure, but first off, there is suspiciously no reddit thread for this video, secondly all these barriers still filter for people who already like grey enough to care to go through the activation energy to click a second link. Although I am one of those people, what this does is effectively make the actual, wildly accessible youtube comments as rewarding as any Mr.Beast comments section, and that's just kind of sad.
I thought that as someone who is both a Patreon member and someone who doesn't use Reddit, I should provide a voice of dissent. Grey is more qualified than I to speak to the business ramifications. I speak to the unfair effects for freezing out on the actual medium anyone who can't pay for the membership. I'd much rather we had an experiment where bonnie bees were urged to aggressively report the spam comments, rather than ignore them. I would *also* rather deal with any leftover spam than freeze out such a huge fraction of our membership. To me, such a significant difference between the have-bees and have-not-bees, is counter to the ethics of Grey's community.
Idk man I've seen the comments on much more viral video channels and the bots aren't that bad. Maybe it's noticeable on the creator end, but I hardly see anything. Limiting comments to just "Bonnie Bees" sounds like a bad idea and would come across as grifting money from people for a problem that doesn't really exist.
until Google does its job and actually closes accounts of « non human ». see EULA for details. they are not applied. so yes on short term, grey is : - doing Google's job - certifying humans himself and it has the side effect you mention ...
See, here's the thing with UA-cam Shorts. UA-cam is scared of TikTok, so they're pushing the shorts. What they should be is REJOICING in TikTok, because ... when someone leaves UA-cam for TikTok, the quality of both platforms increases.
Oh man I totally get the point of this. But it does feel a bit bad, like "banning the poor from conversation", "inhibiting free spech" yada yada If the real conversation is happening on reddit anyways, why not lock the comments here completely? I dunno I hope it works out, or rather, I hope youtube fucking fixes their own problem
Just commenting here to try to boost your algorithm and because I've been pre-approved, and to try to fight any of the hurt of the engagement that some others are speculating about, which I also wondered about.
I've heard enough of Grey's opinion of email discussed on Cortex to be amazed by a signup process which involves "now send me a message", but I guess that's what needs to happen when you fight the UA-cam juggernaut.
I really hope this works as a method for you as I know comments help get videos seen and also I do love reading comments from your followers / patreons.
4$ a month seems a bit steep if all you want is to moderate chat. 1$/month might get you more signups of your "real" subscribers. EDIT: it's apparently 3$/month on UA-cam and 4$ on Patreon
As someone in a country with an actually healthy educational system I am both a college student and can afford this with my part-time money so you can't stop me Grey take my money!
Interesting experiment, hopeful that it helps without hurting engagement “too” much but oh boy you’re not joking about the admin nightmare. Looking forward to it and crossed fingers 🤞 but oh boy good luck!
Where I stand in the sea of a thousand comments, I do not believe that I would reasonably bee able to add to the conversation in a way that a dozen others hadn't already. However, I also believe in the widespread dissemination of educational content regardless and so a bee I am.
University student here. It is a bit annoying/inconvenient having to navigate away from the site just to leave a comment but I understand. It'll be interesting to see where this goes
I wasn't in a financially stable place until like 8 months ago, but ! I signed up then because I remember I was a student when the first patreon video came out and I was like "damn that's some good moral values from one of my favorite youtubers, I will remember." and so I subbed at my first opportunity remembering that. Thanks for being a good one Grey!
Ok, I joined. I use these videos in my classroom so I don't mind helping you out but I definitely cannot afford to do this on every channel! You Tube needs to do something like this to end the bot infestation.
Grey, I'm glad you are experimenting with ways to make the channel work rather than hanging it all up. I'm all for long form content. Heck, I became a Bonnie Bee when you live streamed playing Minecraft. Can't get much more long form than that!
Grey, I've been here from the early days. Through the land of Hello Internet into the void of Cortext, and now am a happy Bonnie Bee. You're content is so worth it. Keep up the good work.
I just signed up. I realized I could also rack up some play points with the purchase and I hope they'll keep coming every month. As for the shorts I do my best to avoid them. I basically never open YT Home page and hang out in my subscriptions.
Is this only one time for this video and all others will be automatically approved? Otherwise, the amount of work needed to approve all legitimate comments for every video would probably eclipse the amount required to ban / silence the bot accounts.
Hope you are doing well, and il watch your videoes all day waiting for the "stories for another time"... WHEN WHEN? I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE EU STORY FOR 10 YEARS!
As soon as I finally got a stable income, supporting on Patreon was one of the first things I did. I don't place a very high value on my ability to comment on things, I'm just glad I can support your work directly! Best of luck sorting through all of us though. It sounds like a monumental task!
Interestingly this will get self-selecting responses if only people who can partake are able to comment on the new format for long. One has hopes the Reddit discussion will be more balanced, i don’t go there
I'm glad we're sponsored you enough so that you never have to take another skillshare sponsorship. (I hate skillshare for being little more than a glorified UA-cam clone but with a premium.)
I love when we get to drastic measures. It's where we make the most noise and get the most innovation. Kind of sucks but humans are notoriously bad at recognizing and fixing problems unless someone else makes a big mess over it.
Question. I can't see how anyone other than myself would be able to verify the connection between me and the completely different usernames I have on Patreon, UA-cam and Discord. What happens then? Is there a step I'd have to take to connect my UA-cam account to my Patreon as verification? Also, would I have to upgrade my Patreon subscription to the Bonnie Bee tier? I wouldn't want to do that because Ad-block absolution so perfectly encapsulates what I'm subscribed for.
Coercion with blame on scammers is not appreciated, but I still clicked in because a contribution from me was overdue. As to the Shorts, glad to hear you speak out about the obscenity of google's copy cat platform corruption. I reject Shorts religiously and delete every suggestion to view one. Just say NO to force fed short form BS content and vertical videos (at least until our heads are mounted sideways and we breath through our ear canals).
Only now for just 2.99$ a month you too can have a fresh new bestagon honeycomb next to your name. Should've done this sooner but oh well. I'm curious to see the spike in memberships on the analytics dashboard, but that's probably confidential info youtube wouldn't want you to post. I'm sure there's a nice bump though.
I have been watching you since my Uni days Grey! Now that I have some disposable income, might as well support my favorite content creator. Thank you for existing
I'm not happy about the split of bees versus non-bees but I wanted to support the Channel for years now and take this as the opportunity to do so. It's the best content I could dream of AND presented with such a great sense of humor, I'm blasted after every single video.... thank you so much for all your hard work!!!
I wonder if this will hurt "engagement" metrics with UA-cam, since commenting is one of the ways creators usually drive engagement and get their videos in more of the suggested feeds
I'd presume that Watch time and likes were more important, but this is youtube, so who knows? UA-cam definitely doesn't
I hope it will. Grandpas need to learn how internet works 🙄
it might, or it might not, I don't know if "unapproved" comments still count for algorithm or not
It will 100% hurt engagement, which might indeed hurt the video's reach. I hope not, but that's partly why this is an experiment.
Guess We'll Just have to engage more
UA-cam needs to give us a way to disable shorts. I don’t want to see them, but they always end up taking away hours of my time.
Facts. I click on one interesting vid and I wake up an hour and a half later
So true! I start with one short from a creator I like then two hours later I am watching people make fart putty.
there is an extension for Firefox and probably chrome too
Please! I’ve been asking them for it through the feedback thing
I would pay UA-cam EXTRA MONEY ON TOP OF PREMIUM to never see a short again.
For years I’ve been a student and thus banned from becoming a Bonnie Bee. I’m finally in a financially stable place outside of school and so I’m so happy to be a Bonnie Bee.
Happy to hear that you are in a stable place -- congratulations!
@@CGPGrey Thank you! I just got offered a decent promotion as well. Things are looking up.
What does this mean? Is grey saying "don't give me money if you're a student" or "Patreon won't let you if you're a student"?
@@ajs1998 Grey would prefer it if you focused on yourself first. Focus on the schooling as that’s the most important. He’s not going anywhere and he’ll be here when you are done with the schooling. Only after you are in a stable place, he’d welcome the support.
@@ajs1998 Grey states not to give money to support him unless you are financially able to support yourself, and he specifically excludes students from that category.
I love being part of exclusive content.
Me too!
Blue ticks are out, being allowed to comment on CGP Grey videos is in as the internets new status symbol
God, I hate those bots. So glad you’re doing something about it!
But how will I find out if there’s hot singles in my area now 😭
Feels awkward since my username was already “bee” before this, but this finally encouraged me to join. What Grey said about UA-cam favoring shorts at the cost of long-term videos really hit home with me. I guess UA-cam was trying to rival tiktok with their mindset behind as they offered up to a 10,000 dollar bonus depending on how well it did. As such, minimal effort, low quality content that can be pushed easily for views gets shown to viewers. Meanwhile, high quality, high effort content often suffers at the cost of it and hardly sees anywhere near as much SEO. It’s frustrating, but it’s the nature of things I suppose. Still, it’s amusing to me how I’ve seen certain content creators upload a short, wait a couple months, then upload it again and gets hundreds of thousands of views.
I love that you are doing this. Thank you! I will try to comment and engage on every video you make from now on, to help with that "engagement" score UA-cam likes so much.
I fear putting the comments section behind barriers of entry that require you to already love and support CGP Grey (or at least care about enough to click onto a subreddit) is going to come at the huge cost of creating artificial environments where you will no longer recieve feedback from more "casual viewers" or "people who dislike your content but have something productive to say about it." To me this is ripe grounds for creating an echo chamber of false positivity- fundamentally altering the function of the comments section as a whole and isn't worth it just to get rid of scambots or sexbots.
Also the way you frame this pivot in your Patreon post focuses more on gaining more monetary support as the primary goal with the sexbot/chatbot deterrent almost as secondary. But it is the opposite for the UA-cam video itself. I understand and would be happy to support your videos as you are one of my favorite UA-camrs, but not empasizing the obvious monetary gains and even framing it as, "a better way to get rid of sexbots and chatbots" (especially given my critisms with the experiment) feels irresponsible at best and fraudulant at worst.
if people want to reach out to him there are other ways to so such as trough the reddit.
@@herrabanani Sure, but first off, there is suspiciously no reddit thread for this video, secondly all these barriers still filter for people who already like grey enough to care to go through the activation energy to click a second link. Although I am one of those people, what this does is effectively make the actual, wildly accessible youtube comments as rewarding as any Mr.Beast comments section, and that's just kind of sad.
Sounds like a lot of work. Hope to see it work out.
Happy to support your efforts! Only recently found you but your Tiffany pain struck me.
been a fan of yours for a long time and am happy to see every one of your uploads
I am now a proud Bonnie bee! 🎉🎉🎉
This is going to be an interesting experiment indeed. 🐝 I wish UA-cam weren't such a seemingly effective target for scammers.
I can't believe UA-cam doesn't have an option for that.
Tell me about it.
I thought that as someone who is both a Patreon member and someone who doesn't use Reddit, I should provide a voice of dissent.
Grey is more qualified than I to speak to the business ramifications. I speak to the unfair effects for freezing out on the actual medium anyone who can't pay for the membership.
I'd much rather we had an experiment where bonnie bees were urged to aggressively report the spam comments, rather than ignore them. I would *also* rather deal with any leftover spam than freeze out such a huge fraction of our membership. To me, such a significant difference between the have-bees and have-not-bees, is counter to the ethics of Grey's community.
Interesting to see how this experiment plays out. Hopefully we'll get a followup video in a year or so
Understandable idea, keep us posted on how it works over time!
Idk man I've seen the comments on much more viral video channels and the bots aren't that bad. Maybe it's noticeable on the creator end, but I hardly see anything. Limiting comments to just "Bonnie Bees" sounds like a bad idea and would come across as grifting money from people for a problem that doesn't really exist.
So you won't be able to comment anymore unless you pay?
until Google does its job and actually closes accounts of « non human ». see EULA for details. they are not applied.
so yes on short term, grey is :
- doing Google's job
- certifying humans himself
and it has the side effect you mention ...
I have a question, If we join for 1 month and then choose to not renew, we will no longer be able to comment or will we still be "verified humans"
Kinda sucks that UA-cam forces creator to limit people from commenting, thus hurting both the creator and they community
Just checking if I can still comment after my patreon expired
I don't like this grey.....
Agreed
I haven't really seen any bots in the youtube comment section.
See, here's the thing with UA-cam Shorts. UA-cam is scared of TikTok, so they're pushing the shorts. What they should be is REJOICING in TikTok, because ... when someone leaves UA-cam for TikTok, the quality of both platforms increases.
Quality isn't something UA-cam cares about. Metrics they can show to advertisers is. That is their exclusive goal.
Oh man I totally get the point of this.
But it does feel a bit bad, like "banning the poor from conversation", "inhibiting free spech" yada yada
If the real conversation is happening on reddit anyways, why not lock the comments here completely?
I dunno
I hope it works out, or rather, I hope youtube fucking fixes their own problem
I can't wait for the Cortex episode about this 😂
Just commenting here to try to boost your algorithm and because I've been pre-approved, and to try to fight any of the hurt of the engagement that some others are speculating about, which I also wondered about.
I've heard enough of Grey's opinion of email discussed on Cortex to be amazed by a signup process which involves "now send me a message", but I guess that's what needs to happen when you fight the UA-cam juggernaut.
I've been here a while and I am happy to support you and do what I can to make your process easier
Finally not a student. Now a bee
so it wasn't april fools
I really hope this works as a method for you as I know comments help get videos seen and also I do love reading comments from your followers / patreons.
4$ a month seems a bit steep if all you want is to moderate chat. 1$/month might get you more signups of your "real" subscribers.
EDIT: it's apparently 3$/month on UA-cam and 4$ on Patreon
Grey, thank you for the years of educational content.
Where big fish swim parasites are sure to be found
It's an honor to get to support you making these animated explainers. Thank you very much!
As someone in a country with an actually healthy educational system I am both a college student and can afford this with my part-time money so you can't stop me Grey take my money!
Well Grey I’m happy to support you. One of only two channels I do. Keep up the heart content
Interesting experiment, hopeful that it helps without hurting engagement “too” much but oh boy you’re not joking about the admin nightmare. Looking forward to it and crossed fingers 🤞 but oh boy good luck!
Specifically got a Patreon since I love your content. Keep it up!
I wonder how this might hurt engagement/spread of videos. Only time (and statistics) will tell!
I'm not really sure how this experiment works, but I signed up and am commenting to support one of my favorite channels. Good luck!
It's an interesting experiment for sure. Fingers crossed it works out for you.
Where I stand in the sea of a thousand comments, I do not believe that I would reasonably bee able to add to the conversation in a way that a dozen others hadn't already. However, I also believe in the widespread dissemination of educational content regardless and so a bee I am.
University student here. It is a bit annoying/inconvenient having to navigate away from the site just to leave a comment but I understand. It'll be interesting to see where this goes
I wasn't in a financially stable place until like 8 months ago, but ! I signed up then because I remember I was a student when the first patreon video came out and I was like "damn that's some good moral values from one of my favorite youtubers, I will remember." and so I subbed at my first opportunity remembering that.
Thanks for being a good one Grey!
only patreon? but I'm a youtube bonnie bee member for a year already.... don't want to lose the bee icon and emotes
You don't!
problem occurs only for patron. bonnies from Google are already certified.
Ok, I joined. I use these videos in my classroom so I don't mind helping you out but I definitely cannot afford to do this on every channel! You Tube needs to do something like this to end the bot infestation.
Grey, I'm glad you are experimenting with ways to make the channel work rather than hanging it all up. I'm all for long form content. Heck, I became a Bonnie Bee when you live streamed playing Minecraft. Can't get much more long form than that!
Grey, I've been here from the early days. Through the land of Hello Internet into the void of Cortext, and now am a happy Bonnie Bee. You're content is so worth it. Keep up the good work.
Good luck with this experiment
Signed up! Thanks for the long form content!
This may become the only UA-cam channel where I actually read the comments.
Been supporting you for a long time and See no reason to stop now. For those that can't afford to. DON'T you take care of you first.
I look to forward to seeing how this plays out
Very proud to be able to contribute to one of my favorite all-time creators. Thank you for being you.
Happy to support your content.
I just signed up. I realized I could also rack up some play points with the purchase and I hope they'll keep coming every month.
As for the shorts I do my best to avoid them. I basically never open YT Home page and hang out in my subscriptions.
how did this experiment go
"Hello Internet" 😞
Is this only one time for this video and all others will be automatically approved? Otherwise, the amount of work needed to approve all legitimate comments for every video would probably eclipse the amount required to ban / silence the bot accounts.
Will this extend to UA-cam members?
Of course!
@@CGPGrey hype! :D
Hope you are doing well, and il watch your videoes all day waiting for the "stories for another time"... WHEN WHEN? I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE EU STORY FOR 10 YEARS!
My sympathies go out to you and your team for having to go through this
Where is the subreddit for this video?
Love the content Grey!!!
As soon as I finally got a stable income, supporting on Patreon was one of the first things I did. I don't place a very high value on my ability to comment on things, I'm just glad I can support your work directly! Best of luck sorting through all of us though. It sounds like a monumental task!
How did I miss this?
Hopefully this will help! I should have started the support a long time ago anyway :D
Interestingly this will get self-selecting responses if only people who can partake are able to comment on the new format for long. One has hopes the Reddit discussion will be more balanced, i don’t go there
Whoever designed the sex bot needs a raise
I'm glad we're sponsored you enough so that you never have to take another skillshare sponsorship. (I hate skillshare for being little more than a glorified UA-cam clone but with a premium.)
i dont comment a lot so hope it keeps it easier
I love when we get to drastic measures. It's where we make the most noise and get the most innovation. Kind of sucks but humans are notoriously bad at recognizing and fixing problems unless someone else makes a big mess over it.
Question, is This only for patron, or will you be allowing members to post as well?
Keep up the good work!
Do you have to be a UA-cam member specifically for this to work, or do Patreon patrons also get it somehow?
Has this already been implemented? If so, that's super fast! How do you know who your Patreon supporters are on UA-cam to approve them?
I gladly and happily support the amazing work you and your team are doing. Plowing though all that data and information. Please keep up the fine work.
Good luck with the admin work!
A shame that it's "kind of necessary" but c'est la vie.
Sometimes it's more bots than people.
Can you imagine how horrible the human-farms are for running them?
Can't you automate it with some UI testing framework like RobotFramework?
Question. I can't see how anyone other than myself would be able to verify the connection between me and the completely different usernames I have on Patreon, UA-cam and Discord.
What happens then?
Is there a step I'd have to take to connect my UA-cam account to my Patreon as verification?
Also, would I have to upgrade my Patreon subscription to the Bonnie Bee tier?
I wouldn't want to do that because Ad-block absolution so perfectly encapsulates what I'm subscribed for.
Good thing you posted this, I forgot my sub had been canceled. fixed :)
These comments are the bees' knees.
Coercion with blame on scammers is not appreciated, but I still clicked in because a contribution from me was overdue. As to the Shorts, glad to hear you speak out about the obscenity of google's copy cat platform corruption. I reject Shorts religiously and delete every suggestion to view one. Just say NO to force fed short form BS content and vertical videos (at least until our heads are mounted sideways and we breath through our ear canals).
It's up to us, the Bonnie bees, to drive up the engagement metrics now.
Not a Q&A video, but I must know - do you use new or old Reddit?
Ahhhhh, the Bee Privilege!
I already feel very sophisticated and important. 😅
I have never seen the flag of Illinois before this video, and now I am quite ashamed of my state. 😔
Only now for just 2.99$ a month you too can have a fresh new bestagon honeycomb next to your name.
Should've done this sooner but oh well.
I'm curious to see the spike in memberships on the analytics dashboard, but that's probably confidential info youtube wouldn't want you to post. I'm sure there's a nice bump though.
I have been watching you since my Uni days Grey! Now that I have some disposable income, might as well support my favorite content creator. Thank you for existing
Instead of bots, let there be bees! 🐝
It is what it is, because it's not what it can't be.
I'm not happy about the split of bees versus non-bees but I wanted to support the Channel for years now and take this as the opportunity to do so. It's the best content I could dream of AND presented with such a great sense of humor, I'm blasted after every single video.... thank you so much for all your hard work!!!
Thanks!