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+## What this project is all about
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+YouTube's community captions...
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+### Why would YouTube do this?
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+[A year ago there was a major controversy which led to YouTube restricting the feature.](https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1167565334917742593) Because people were complaining about spam, they made it so only uploaders could publish submissions
+[2:44 PM] themadprogramer: 
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+[For a more exhaustive explanation click here!](https://datahorde.org/?p=1442)
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+YouTube announced that they were going to retire the feature on September 28, 2020. This decision seeing as people had [been complaining about the feature](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isvAJnuyaN4)and that they did not want to reimplement it for the new editor
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+### Why should we archive these unpublished contributions?
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+The best scenario: uploaders approve,
+had previously complained about the feature
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+### How a "worker" works
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+<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="centerImage" src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/755918971487911947/759059477387018250/Architecture.png" width=25%></p>
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+The Tracker tracks workers, the workers collect information from videos: captions in review, title/description translations in review and caption credits.
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+An "un-automated" version which https://github.com/Data-Horde/ytcc-exporter