I was using the mouse to drag around letters, not the keyboard. It was my first time playing and I was still wrapping my head around basic game concepts, so it's unlikely that I was interacting quickly.
Location: Davis, California
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Technologies: Java, Javascript, C#, C, Android, embedded, games, performance optimization, video
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kay-neuenhofen-42398720 - the recommendations are very often not interesting to me because
+ they cater to the lowest common denominator (you won't believe these 10 hilarious fails, PewDiePie picks his nose, etc.)
+ I have already watched the video
+ a video has been in the Recommended section for weeks and I haven't clicked on it. What makes you think I'll change my mind after several weeks? If I don't click a video within a couple of days of it appearing in the section, it's a dud. Don't keep showing it
+ the video is from a channel I am already subscribed to. That's not a recommendation, it's trivial and not helpful
+ most or all of the videos in the section are sometimes matching the same key word. I once clicked on an Amy Schumer video, and for many days every video in the Recommended section was a Schumer video. This is terrible. The same thing happened after I clicked a Craig Ferguson video.
- the feedback UI is not streamlined. I have to click through multiple menus to be able to say: not interested in this channel
- there should be list of key words that I can specify where if the video matches one of them, don't add it to the section. Conversely, there should be a list of key words that when I specify them, the recommendation engine goes out and looks for videos matching them, and then adds some of them to the section
I love watching interesting and creative how-to videos (DiResta, Tested, etc.), but even after several years of watching them, the recommendation engine seems to not have caught on to that.