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Originally Posted by adultmobile
I agree with you there will be 1 good content every 10000 "pure shit". If that was mixed randomly, it woud be not worth searching. However, content it is not presented randomly, there is ranking by votes, by views etc., this is like camscore in myfreecams for cams.
For example let's take deviantart.com , a social site for (mostly young) artists, where all th econtent is user-generated. Of course most it is teenager rubbish productions. However you can select to show content by popularity, for ex photography section by popularity:
http://www.deviantart.com/photography/?order=9
I see some nice things. |
And I just spent five minutes clicking on the photos and found that many if not most are stolen and not the work of amateurs. Making it basically a defacto pinterest.
Social media and user generated content does not foster creativity.
They promote theft and the recycling of content found already all over the Internet. Artists are not able to profit from their creations and anyone with talent posts a handful of examples of their work and quickly discover that they would be better off doing chalk drawings on the sidewalk with a tin cup looking for handouts.
Therefore 100% real user generated content is 97% pure shit. It is the idiot that updates his status every time he goes to the toilet, the dumb broad that shoves a tampon in her mouth, the stupid 20 year old male that posts photos of his car, the quasi-pedophiles grabbing videos of hairless twat barely legals, the moron that swears Obama is a shape changing lizard born in Kenya, uneducated trailer park trash that think Ray Kurzweil is going to gift them with immortality, guys who troll craigslist looking for pics.. etc... etc.... etc.. etc
And the voting on what is or is not popular is also bullshit.
The "herd" mentality is rampant to the point of being a new kind of social disease. Try posting on Reddit about the possibility of better controls on porn to protect children. Watch how literally everyone will scream *freedom of speech* and then tell you to shut the fuck up. Or if a woman posts a picture of her shoving a parking cone up her ass she will get a ton of hits and people loving it but even if a professional photographer took a picture of her exiting a church wearing a nice conservative dress won't even get a handful of hits and stands a good chance of being ridiculed because of the church in the background. I learned long time ago that if you post a video on youtube and want people to look at it... Post a thumbnail of a woman in a thong bikini otherwise it will be 30 views in 3 years.
Community standards are also bullshit
Puppy toss is banned from youtube in seconds but thousands of videos of torture, crucifictions, etc remain. A well made hollywood movie will sit until someone DMCA's it down but somone doing a documentary on the real estate fraud and scams of Jacque Fresco disappears in 24hours.
No my friend your problem is you caught up in the user tailored content trap,
You are not getting fed the big picture from your research efforts. Therefore I will put forward that when you consider the massive job losses the Internet causes, the huge national security problems it creates for governments and quite often public embarassements and scandals for various officals... It is not hard to see why so many politicians are subtlety pulling their support from the net based companies. Then add in that general public is now starting to get tired of the petty squabbles, no-life trolls, their 10 year old child constantly being exposed to tits and ass, etc.. etc.. etc...
It does not take an Einstien to figure out that mobil gadgets are the new trend and it will be the apps that allow them to access maps, restuarant locations and menus, music, twitter/snapchat, etc. Web 2.0 with its traditional websites are dying fast.