diff --git a/General-Information.md b/General-Information.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2cbc1bf --- /dev/null +++ b/General-Information.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +## What this project is all about + +YouTube's community captions... + +### Why would YouTube do this? + +[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: + +[For a more exhaustive explanation click here!](https://datahorde.org/?p=1442) + +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that they did not want to reimplement it for the new editor + +### Why should we archive these unpublished contributions? + +The best scenario: uploaders approve, +had previously complained about the feature + +### How a "worker" works + +

+ +The Tracker tracks workers, the workers collect information from videos: captions in review, title/description translations in review and caption credits. + +An "un-automated" version which https://github.com/Data-Horde/ytcc-exporter