I’ve been encountering many videos added using the video adder tool while patrolling. My questions are that 1) Can we just go ahead and patrol them? Since, it will most likely go through QG and they’ll decide whether it stays or not. 2) When and why should we revert them? If we do so, should it be done under some particular circumstances? 3) Should we watch the video before patrolling it? Hope to hear the answers soon.
It’s always recommended to watch the videos first before patrolling it since you don’t actually know what the video is about and whether it fits our guidelines until you watch it. In addition to QG, RC patrol acts as a line of defense against harmful edits. Videos should be reverted if they don’t fit our video curation guideline—not instructional, contains advertising, etc. Many of us tend to skip videos because it’s a time-consuming task to watch it and decide of the video should be reverted not. But like mentioned above, RC patrol serves as our line between quality and harmful edits.
Shinako
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Thanks @Illneedasaviour
! I’ll keep it in mind from now on.
system
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A quick tip to patrolling videos is to look at the title and source. If the title doesn’t match the article content to begin with, it may not meet video guidelines. If the first 30 or so seconds are a long-winded advertisement, it may simply be that. If a user is embedding videos manually and frequently, and they all seem sourced to one website or video account, it needs to be brought to staff or an admin’s attention since that is a recent method of adding spam or spamlike content simply to promote that source. Since patrolling videos is tedious, and often buffering them is beyond my ISP’s bandwidth, I do often skip patrolling them, but that is better than marking them as patrolled with the assumption someone else down the line will handle it.
