YouTube Question: Removing videos from "My Subscriptions"

quicksite · 03-25-2007, 08:23 PM

(NOTE: I am new registrant, I could not find a forum designated for help with web services; this was closest to a relevant forum I could find.)

If you know of a YOU TUBE Help Community of posters, please let me know. I cannot find any such community on youTube itself, nor when searching on Google. but I am sure such a community must exist, and i have just not found it :)

PROBLEM: (1) YouTube allows you to SUBSCRIBE to users whose videos you like. (2) They provide a very simply way to unsubscribe to a user's videos, no problem there. (3) But every day when I go to My Subscriptions to see the latest videos posted from the people I've subscribed to, there are always a bunch of unrelated videos from people I have not subscribed to. I can't seem to find a way to get rid of these videos. If I click the user name associated with such a video, I see that I am NOT subscribed.

(4) I know you can also subscribe to keywords, such as "Colbert" if you like Stephen Colbert videos. And it is also easy to unsubscribe from these videos: one just clicks on the keyword/s in the left column menu of subscibed-to phrases -- and at the next page, click Unsubscribe. But, again, many of these mystery videos do not show up under any of my keyword subscriptions -- OR IF THEY SOMEHOW DO, i cannot find out how they have been associated with the keywords I've chosen. They do not relate to the keywords at all.

Thus I cannnot find a way to unsubscribe from videos which show up on my Subscriptions list, yet are not users I have subscribed to, nor do they contain the keywords I have subscribed to. What am I missing? What can I do to exclude such videos from displaying?

thank you.

quicksite · 03-25-2007, 08:46 PM

Maybe this is the factor. I looked more closely just now at some videos that have no connection to my subscribed-to videos. I see, for example, that some of them have just added all sorts of "spam tags" like "Colbert" "Chapelle" etc. The videos have nothing to do with those people.

I guess this is like webpage metatags for "sex" "porn" etc, to try to game the search results lists, so you show up in searches unrelated to your actual content.

So, I just now used YouTub's "flag this video" feature -- but their choices for reasons for flagging do not pertain to this thing that I call "spam tagging".

Suggestions?

tell4 · 04-14-2008, 03:04 AM

YouTube Question: Removing videos from "My Subscriptions". I have just started getting the same problem. I cant delete the unsubscribed videos either. Did you find the problem.
Rgds Terry

03-25-2007, 08:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
quicksite Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2 OS: Mac OS X 10.4.x	YouTube Question: Removing videos from "My Subscriptions" (NOTE: I am new registrant, I could not find a forum designated for help with web services; this was closest to a relevant forum I could find.) If you know of a YOU TUBE Help Community of posters, please let me know. I cannot find any such community on youTube itself, nor when searching on Google. but I am sure such a community must exist, and i have just not found it :) PROBLEM: (1) YouTube allows you to SUBSCRIBE to users whose videos you like. (2) They provide a very simply way to unsubscribe to a user's videos, no problem there. (3) But every day when I go to My Subscriptions to see the latest videos posted from the people I've subscribed to, there are always a bunch of unrelated videos from people I have not subscribed to. I can't seem to find a way to get rid of these videos. If I click the user name associated with such a video, I see that I am NOT subscribed. (4) I know you can also subscribe to keywords, such as "Colbert" if you like Stephen Colbert videos. And it is also easy to unsubscribe from these videos: one just clicks on the keyword/s in the left column menu of subscibed-to phrases -- and at the next page, click Unsubscribe. But, again, many of these mystery videos do not show up under any of my keyword subscriptions -- OR IF THEY SOMEHOW DO, i cannot find out how they have been associated with the keywords I've chosen. They do not relate to the keywords at all. Thus I cannnot find a way to unsubscribe from videos which show up on my Subscriptions list, yet are not users I have subscribed to, nor do they contain the keywords I have subscribed to. What am I missing? What can I do to exclude such videos from displaying? thank you. Last edited by quicksite : 03-25-2007 at 08:23 PM. Reason: misspelling fixed

03-25-2007, 08:46 PM	#2 (permalink)
quicksite Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2 OS: Mac OS X 10.4.x	Re: YouTube Question: "spam tags" Maybe this is the factor. I looked more closely just now at some videos that have no connection to my subscribed-to videos. I see, for example, that some of them have just added all sorts of "spam tags" like "Colbert" "Chapelle" etc. The videos have nothing to do with those people. I guess this is like webpage metatags for "sex" "porn" etc, to try to game the search results lists, so you show up in searches unrelated to your actual content. So, I just now used YouTub's "flag this video" feature -- but their choices for reasons for flagging do not pertain to this thing that I call "spam tagging". Suggestions?

04-14-2008, 03:04 AM	#3 (permalink)
tell4 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1 OS: xp	Re: YouTube Question: Removing videos from "My Subscriptions" YouTube Question: Removing videos from "My Subscriptions". I have just started getting the same problem. I cant delete the unsubscribed videos either. Did you find the problem. Rgds Terry