What's so ridiculous about this deletion is there's an option to identify your video uploads as being about firearms. If it were simply about appeasing big-money advertisers opposed to gun content it should be possible for them to specify any content they don't want their ads to appear. Pro-gun companies should be able to purchase ads specifically for that content if they choose.
Honestly I think the root of the problem is youtube is completely incompetent at content moderation and it goes way beyond "the platform is too big to effectively moderate by hand". I mean you've got copy right issues with music, you've got their weird stances on swearing, all the platform issues with their youtube kids system and education videos, pretty much every genre of youtuber i follow has run into issues with youtubes moderation or lack there of
I get ads for Midway USA, ON-X Maps, and other sporting goods companies watching gun channels all the time. This is a thing. But there's probably only so much money from those accounts to go around.
@@matthewkriebel7342 UA-cam will run ads on demonetized videos and take 100% of the ad revenue as a parting "F You" to the channel. And pistol holster manufacturers are more than happy to have their ads run on pro-2A channels. UA-cam just won't.
Word of advice; let your guest talk and don't feel like you have to say something unless there is silence. Noticed a few times where Ian was cutt off so a point could be made that he was already making. I know this is a smaller channel but just a suggestion.
I've noticed this happens more often with video chat than in real life, the lag can make people think there's an opening to start a reply when there isn't and they accidentally interrupt.
The 3rd party activist moderators reviewed the rules, reinterpreted them and decided to start actively going after content that they personally or as a group, don't like...
It was never publicly announced but 18 months ago, YT hired the foremost authority on firearms of all types. Professor George Santos presented impeccable credentials and was hired immediately. His records show that he was the firearms curator at London's Royal Armory for 17 years, Head of Engineering at H&K for 13 years, Production Manager at Glock for 22 years, Head of the Engineering Dept. at MIT for 18 years, as well as Professor Emeritus at several prestigious colleges around the world. Prof. Santos is now applying his vast knowledge and experience to insure YT viewers aren't subjected to any content that might violate community standards. So things should be sorted out very soon.
I agree with you Steve, this "nerdy" stuff is NOT boring and that is what I love about Ian's channel. For me the history of a firearm is just as interesting as the gun itself. As a matter of fact I enjoy his "talking head" videos as much as any other of his stuff.
Thank you, The Reload. Just signed up on uTreon and Rumble, a "just-in-case" move should UA-cam take down Forgotten Weapons, InRangeTV, GunWebsites, others that I subscribe to. And an extra special "thank-you!" to y'all for giving us a discount for a 1-year membership here! Just re-upped, and looking forward to more in-depth commentary and sober analysis, especially content where you converse with "the oppo" like Mark Bryant, James Alan Fox, others who want restrictions on our 2A civil rights.
Mr McCollum the videos you make and put so much effort into are the reasons that I support your channel. You aren’t following the main stream route that some are taking with the shorts and whatnot. I love the takedown and reviews of the old forgotten weapons that a lot of the gun world doesn’t know about or care about but that me and all your other nerdy subscribers find more interesting then any modern guns. I’m not saying anything against modern guns as I love them but I love the old guns of the early 20th century much more.
If the elevator, on the bus I'm riding, slows down I'm going to be glad I have my parachute strapped to my back, and I'll be double checking my scuba tank.
Really enjoyed the segment with Ian. As for the NRA...as a Benefactor Life Member...I no longer send any $. There are several other 2A advocate organizations that I currently support such as 2A Foundation, GOA, NAGR, FPC... WLP is the textbook definition of a self-licking ice cream cone...
I heard from someone at UA-cam it was about suppressors. The automatic picture recognition though it was something sexual, like a dildo, but UA-cam don’t wanna say that in public.
the worst part of how yt moderates is the retroactive punishing. content from 3 years ago that wasnt in violation is what they issue strikes for because it is now an issue. Also the wild inconsistency at which this happens is a huge issue
Yeah, and I think also that they treat new rules the same as long-standing ones. Not sure exactly how to explain this, but... Let's say it's always been against the rules to wear a green shirt, but they didn't enforce the rule very actively and you got away with it for a long time. In that case, it might make sense to go "oh, he's got a year-long backlog of green shirt videos, that's three strikes, ban the channel." On the other hand, if they just made that rule, it *might* make sense to go back through and apply the rule retroactively* but you would want to do some kind of "grace period" where your old videos get demonetized/delisted/whatever but anything posted prior to the change doesn't count as a strike, or only counts for one strike however many videos there were. *You know, imagine something you care about that should have been banned long ago. Say, dogfighting, or kids getting hurt in accidents, or whatever it is that boils your blood. If they were late off the mark banning something like that, you wouldn't want them to go "well, no NEW animal cruelty videos, but the old ones are grandfathered and stay up forever."
Wayne LaPierre needs to go. I’m 1 of the roughly million that has gone, along with Chris Cox. He and the rest of the leadership that contributed to the state of affairs must go.
The RIA 5.0 is just locking block action with the guide rod doubling as the camming surface for the locking block. Very compact, but not all that divorced from contemporary designs like Walther P38 or SR-1 Gyurza.
I'm a life member of the NRA. I am not quitting, but I don't send them anything any more. WL's ridiculous bombastic style and apparent personal imperious behavior has sent me directly to the CRPA (unfortunate acronym) for my advocacy. Also, let's face it, a lot of members are conservative Democrats, and the NRA's full throated and continuous support of Trump was grating. I think the current lack of fervor by the membership is also based on a perception of the political impotence on the part of Joe Biden. He is not as scary as Hillary.
I can assure you two that any time a rule like that is kept vague by such a massive corporation. It's for the purposes of arbitrary enforcement. "We keep it vague so it could apply to anyone if we want it to." Like "assault weapon" having no real definition so it means whatever they need it to mean.
Someone should take a muffler off a car and put it on a gun. Also take off a large silencer off and put it on a small car. Someone with proper permitting of course. I think that could help point out what a suppressor is. Just a muffler for a gun. They don’t make guns silent.
Ummmm....actually, suppressors are often called silencers. Except, they don't silence anything, you can still hear the shot. They suppress it, making it possible to shoot without blowing your eardrums out.
Content creators really should be told WHY a video breaches the guidelines, how else are you support to 'improve' the content. I watch Ians videos from a historic point of view.
I think the problem is exactly that - UA-cam being too careless and cheap to hire competent staff for content review, and lacking means of communication between content creators and their "partners" at UA-cam. And every once in a while someone goes absolutely haywire and demonetizes and strikes absolutely everything. (If it's out of incompetence or got a political motivation behind it doesn't really matter.) As long as there're not enough people to make enough noise about it, it passes by completely unnoticed by higher-ups at UA-cam who have an actual say in things. Just as Ian said, content creators are too detached from people within the UA-cam hierarchy who (supposedly) have actual responsibilities and should be able to be held accountable. There's a big gap with no way of communication to bridge that gap. Sad thing is, that's the default design for such big companies. It's built like that on purpose, and most likely not going to change.
The creators need to do what professional athletes, actors, and most other people who "partner" with companies where vast amounts of money is made based on their efforts do - organize. Collective bargaining is how you get fair treatment.
Joerg Sprav (a slingshot UA-camr) worked with one of the largest unions in Germany to include UA-camrs and that union filed suit against UA-cam in Germany for something a akin to “false self-employment” in the partner program. AFAIK it never went anywhere
How many views did Ian 's video on how to make a machine gun link get? Not a particularly interesting subject, but I'll bet it got over 100k. Not because it's a fascinating subject, but because Ian shows the process, explains the process simply and accurately, and is pleasant. Not rocket surgery, but evidently beyond the Silicon Valley brai train. The Tube should take care of the people who make them money, but they are geniuses, not smart.
Well really I think the AI got a setting update that could have been an accident and auto strikes without a manual review. They wouldn't want to admit that.
I'm not the biggest fan of the NRA to say the least, but I still don't want them to shut their doors. So to hear of their membership losses and financial woes is concerning. If nothing else they serve as a convenient lightning rod for the ire of anti gun groups. They have a pretty bad reputation, and rightfully so in some cases. But the still do quite a bit, contrary to what some in the community might say.
@@mandalorian1797 yeah but the act as a lightning rod for all negative attention. Where as a lot of people have no fucking clue what the GOA or FPC is. Keeps them out of stupid lawsuits.
The NRA changed the rules so they could sell their museum pieces with almost no accountability. There's no reason to do this unless LaPierre is trying to raid the collection to stuff his personal coffers.
What's so ridiculous about this deletion is there's an option to identify your video uploads as being about firearms. If it were simply about appeasing big-money advertisers opposed to gun content it should be possible for them to specify any content they don't want their ads to appear. Pro-gun companies should be able to purchase ads specifically for that content if they choose.
That makes too much sense, therefor that's what won't happen.
Honestly I think the root of the problem is youtube is completely incompetent at content moderation and it goes way beyond "the platform is too big to effectively moderate by hand". I mean you've got copy right issues with music, you've got their weird stances on swearing, all the platform issues with their youtube kids system and education videos, pretty much every genre of youtuber i follow has run into issues with youtubes moderation or lack there of
I get ads for Midway USA, ON-X Maps, and other sporting goods companies watching gun channels all the time. This is a thing. But there's probably only so much money from those accounts to go around.
@@matthewkriebel7342 UA-cam will run ads on demonetized videos and take 100% of the ad revenue as a parting "F You" to the channel.
And pistol holster manufacturers are more than happy to have their ads run on pro-2A channels.
UA-cam just won't.
Always great to see Ian in a nice long discussion
We agree!
I'd want to see internal yt communications on these issues.
Project Veritas, where you at!?
@@12ealDealOfficial It's over.
It was Ian that got me interested in firearms. His videos were offered to me since I was watching historical documentaries on UA-cam.
They are literally a safety device. I simply don't want to deafen the 8 year old next to me at the shooting range with my short barrel 308.
The gentlemen of some countries agreed long ago.
Word of advice; let your guest talk and don't feel like you have to say something unless there is silence. Noticed a few times where Ian was cutt off so a point could be made that he was already making. I know this is a smaller channel but just a suggestion.
I've noticed this happens more often with video chat than in real life, the lag can make people think there's an opening to start a reply when there isn't and they accidentally interrupt.
I like that Ian is here for the nerd corps who want the knowledge. It's good to see a humble reason to exist instead of the normal greed motivation.
Don’t trust UA-cam with your livelihood
The 3rd party activist moderators reviewed the rules, reinterpreted them and decided to start actively going after content that they personally or as a group, don't like...
It was never publicly announced but 18 months ago, YT hired the foremost authority on firearms of all types. Professor George Santos presented impeccable credentials and was hired immediately. His records show that he was the firearms curator at London's Royal Armory for 17 years, Head of Engineering at H&K for 13 years, Production Manager at Glock for 22 years, Head of the Engineering Dept. at MIT for 18 years, as well as Professor Emeritus at several prestigious colleges around the world. Prof. Santos is now applying his vast knowledge and experience to insure YT viewers aren't subjected to any content that might violate community standards. So things should be sorted out very soon.
I agree with you Steve, this "nerdy" stuff is NOT boring and that is what I love about Ian's channel. For me the history of a firearm is just as interesting as the gun itself. As a matter of fact I enjoy his "talking head" videos as much as any other of his stuff.
Right? It's great!
Thank you, The Reload. Just signed up on uTreon and Rumble, a "just-in-case" move should UA-cam take down Forgotten Weapons, InRangeTV, GunWebsites, others that I subscribe to.
And an extra special "thank-you!" to y'all for giving us a discount for a 1-year membership here! Just re-upped, and looking forward to more in-depth commentary and sober analysis, especially content where you converse with "the oppo" like Mark Bryant, James Alan Fox, others who want restrictions on our 2A civil rights.
Thank you for this podcast. I thought it was very interesting. I’d love to hear a conversation with Othais from C&rsenal aswell
Mr McCollum the videos you make and put so much effort into are the reasons that I support your channel. You aren’t following the main stream route that some are taking with the shorts and whatnot. I love the takedown and reviews of the old forgotten weapons that a lot of the gun world doesn’t know about or care about but that me and all your other nerdy subscribers find more interesting then any modern guns. I’m not saying anything against modern guns as I love them but I love the old guns of the early 20th century much more.
Educational.
I suspect that outsourcing content moderation to activist groups with agendas beyond what is their explicitly stated cause is the problem here. Iykyk.
33:49 HAHAha This 20 second statement by Ian was Hilariously True!
Absolutely love his content!
If the elevator, on the bus I'm riding, slows down I'm going to be glad I have my parachute strapped to my back, and I'll be double checking my scuba tank.
Really enjoyed the segment with Ian. As for the NRA...as a Benefactor Life Member...I no longer send any $. There are several other 2A advocate organizations that I currently support such as 2A Foundation, GOA, NAGR, FPC... WLP is the textbook definition of a self-licking ice cream cone...
Finally, a news show I care to watch.
I want a 60 second short on how Mauser production changed between 1920 and 1923.
Would be best video on tictok.
UA-cam is like gazpacho from chowder, banning everything including itself one day
I don't believe this is just about advertising. Theres a political aspect to this.
EXACTLY...
I heard from someone at UA-cam it was about suppressors. The automatic picture recognition though it was something sexual, like a dildo, but UA-cam don’t wanna say that in public.
Reminds me when tumblr banned pr0n, and the picture recognition thought landscape pictures of sand dunes were naked bodies.
the worst part of how yt moderates is the retroactive punishing. content from 3 years ago that wasnt in violation is what they issue strikes for because it is now an issue. Also the wild inconsistency at which this happens is a huge issue
Yeah, and I think also that they treat new rules the same as long-standing ones. Not sure exactly how to explain this, but... Let's say it's always been against the rules to wear a green shirt, but they didn't enforce the rule very actively and you got away with it for a long time. In that case, it might make sense to go "oh, he's got a year-long backlog of green shirt videos, that's three strikes, ban the channel." On the other hand, if they just made that rule, it *might* make sense to go back through and apply the rule retroactively* but you would want to do some kind of "grace period" where your old videos get demonetized/delisted/whatever but anything posted prior to the change doesn't count as a strike, or only counts for one strike however many videos there were.
*You know, imagine something you care about that should have been banned long ago. Say, dogfighting, or kids getting hurt in accidents, or whatever it is that boils your blood. If they were late off the mark banning something like that, you wouldn't want them to go "well, no NEW animal cruelty videos, but the old ones are grandfathered and stay up forever."
Wayne LaPierre needs to go. I’m 1 of the roughly million that has gone, along with Chris Cox. He and the rest of the leadership that contributed to the state of affairs must go.
The RIA 5.0 is just locking block action with the guide rod doubling as the camming surface for the locking block. Very compact, but not all that divorced from contemporary designs like Walther P38 or SR-1 Gyurza.
I'm a life member of the NRA. I am not quitting, but I don't send them anything any more. WL's ridiculous bombastic style and apparent personal imperious behavior has sent me directly to the CRPA (unfortunate acronym) for my advocacy. Also, let's face it, a lot of members are conservative Democrats, and the NRA's full throated and continuous support of Trump was grating. I think the current lack of fervor by the membership is also based on a perception of the political impotence on the part of Joe Biden. He is not as scary as Hillary.
I can assure you two that any time a rule like that is kept vague by such a massive corporation. It's for the purposes of arbitrary enforcement. "We keep it vague so it could apply to anyone if we want it to." Like "assault weapon" having no real definition so it means whatever they need it to mean.
Awesome video, great to listen to.
Also, what’s that song in the intro? Sounds cool.
It's called Devil's Got No Hold by Harbor & Home
@@TheReloadSite Thank you!
Someone should take a muffler off a car and put it on a gun. Also take off a large silencer off and put it on a small car. Someone with proper permitting of course. I think that could help point out what a suppressor is. Just a muffler for a gun. They don’t make guns silent.
Mildly put. Total ban is objective .
Ummmm....actually, suppressors are often called silencers. Except, they don't silence anything, you can still hear the shot. They suppress it, making it possible to shoot without blowing your eardrums out.
Content creators really should be told WHY a video breaches the guidelines, how else are you support to 'improve' the content.
I watch Ians videos from a historic point of view.
This was good.
just a heads up. interrupt Ian a bit less. most people came here to listen to his opinions (no offense) so let the man talk a bit more :)
I think the problem is exactly that - UA-cam being too careless and cheap to hire competent staff for content review, and lacking means of communication between content creators and their "partners" at UA-cam.
And every once in a while someone goes absolutely haywire and demonetizes and strikes absolutely everything. (If it's out of incompetence or got a political motivation behind it doesn't really matter.)
As long as there're not enough people to make enough noise about it, it passes by completely unnoticed by higher-ups at UA-cam who have an actual say in things.
Just as Ian said, content creators are too detached from people within the UA-cam hierarchy who (supposedly) have actual responsibilities and should be able to be held accountable. There's a big gap with no way of communication to bridge that gap.
Sad thing is, that's the default design for such big companies. It's built like that on purpose, and most likely not going to change.
Great to see Ian on another podcast
Tic-Tac. You got that right first time.
34:39 Damn straight! Keep it up.
Please let your guest talk more.
They striked a friend because a video had him unthreading a silencer. I mean come...on...
Silencers are preferred in some countries. UA-cam is a strange place.
Haha thermal ammunition, some office idiot at youtube probably saw a box labelled H.E.A.T rounds and said there'll be no hot bullets on my platform
It was great while it lasted, now I'm convinced YT is being run by pineapples and unicorns so I'm happy to bounce to Rumble & help everyone there..👍
The creators need to do what professional athletes, actors, and most other people who "partner" with companies where vast amounts of money is made based on their efforts do - organize. Collective bargaining is how you get fair treatment.
Joerg Sprav (a slingshot UA-camr) worked with one of the largest unions in Germany to include UA-camrs and that union filed suit against UA-cam in Germany for something a
akin to “false self-employment” in the partner program. AFAIK it never went anywhere
Maybe Matt from DR might actually give a shit about this now
How many views did Ian 's video on how to make a machine gun link get? Not a particularly interesting subject, but I'll bet it got over 100k. Not because it's a fascinating subject, but because Ian shows the process, explains the process simply and accurately, and is pleasant. Not rocket surgery, but evidently beyond the Silicon Valley brai train. The Tube should take care of the people who make them money, but they are geniuses, not smart.
I like your channel but you cut off Ian a couple times and then went on your own rant about how you felt.
Well really I think the AI got a setting update that could have been an accident and auto strikes without a manual review. They wouldn't want to admit that.
Partner😂 The logical approach isn’t going to work, these people have an agenda.
Who came here to see what brand the suppressor was on the thumb nail?
Suppressors*
Dude, let your guest get a word in occasionally.
UA-cam threatened me about comments .
Just want to take a second right off to note that the refs made a really bad call last night.
These catch completion rules are ridiculous.
FuKCed around and found out.
Don't mess with gun Jesus. Just don't!
Asked youtube if they'd go after gaming content over silencers and reloading/inserting magazines.
UA-cam said 'Yes"
Then it started getting noticed.
I'm not the biggest fan of the NRA to say the least, but I still don't want them to shut their doors. So to hear of their membership losses and financial woes is concerning.
If nothing else they serve as a convenient lightning rod for the ire of anti gun groups. They have a pretty bad reputation, and rightfully so in some cases. But the still do quite a bit, contrary to what some in the community might say.
The nra has been useless for a long time, the quicker goa takes over the better
No they're cancer and I'm happy to see the free market working. There are plenty of 2A advocacy groups and most of them to a much better job
@@mandalorian1797 yeah but the act as a lightning rod for all negative attention. Where as a lot of people have no fucking clue what the GOA or FPC is. Keeps them out of stupid lawsuits.
The NRA changed the rules so they could sell their museum pieces with almost no accountability. There's no reason to do this unless LaPierre is trying to raid the collection to stuff his personal coffers.
"Suppressor"