Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: Suggestion for improvement to "Up Next" Youtube algorithm

Simple new rule:

IF Title ends in NUMBER, and Title ending in Number+1 exists, then Up Next should be Number+1.

On second thought, maybe they already do that, but RedGreenTV named all their episodes wrong for Binge Watching (I keep having to search for the next episode, and I'm only 1/6th of the way through the 300 episodes). As I was typing this, I noticed the current video I'm on is "The Red Green Show Ep 50 "Car Pool"". Knowing this show, that's probably the Handyman Corner- turning a K-Car into a hot tub.

Nope- modernizing your home

[Marxist Hacker 42]

By increasing the number of toilets in the house. To one in every room.

Possible

[AmiMoJo]

The uploader can do that by linking to the next in the series in the description.

Re:

[apraetor]

They can also create playlists which have all episodes in sequence. Yup, a quick check of YouTube shows they have a playlist for each season. Not trawling all of YouTube for videos matching that pattern is likely deliberate -- it makes using YouTube for pirated TV shows that much more difficult. Killing the piracy by inches.

Now I think it's a trivial notion

[shanen]

I had higher hopes when I arrived.

Frankly I think we need mostly ways to reduce time wasted on YouTube--but of course the google disagrees. It would be like asking Facebook to stop wasting so much of people's time, when the entire market cap of Facebook is really an insane wager on how much time can be wasted.

However, in the spirit of the boy with the hammer looking for a nail, let me whack your problem a couple of good ones with the hammer of EPR (Earned Public Reputation). The EPR of the person posting th