I bet the name becomes very appropriate very quickly. The other category of repeated viewing is click-spamming. They are very much worth ignoring as well.
In any case, I have found that it is very important to almost entirely ignore the number of times that somebody interacts with a media item (music and video are what I have worked on) and instead look at the number of user who have done such interactions. Recommendation quality goes up substantially with this step. On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote: > > On May 20, 2011, at 10:11 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > Also, from a practical point of view, people rarely watch videos > repeatedly, > > even if they like them and want to see more. > > > > (people - excluding two year olds who will watch something they like > until > > it wears out) > > I would extend that from 2 y.o. to about 18 y.o, but for sure at least 9 > y.o. based on first hand experience, esp. w/ ones that are popular in their > peer group. I think every time my son has a friend over, he shows them the > "Annoying Orange" on YouTube ("Hey Apple!") > >
