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They make it hard to correct those things too. You have to re-upload the entire thing as a new video instead of being able to edit or replace existing videos to deal with copyright claims. But then their algorithms also seem to demote content creators from deleting or unpublishing videos so correcting those things actually hurts your channel in the long run.

One of my more popular videos could never be monetized because I added a song (via the old YouTube editor interface) that turned out to have a copyright claim but the interface doesn't allow me to remove or change the background music in post. So I'm given the option to delete something with 911k views and annoy my viewers with a duplicate upload or just cut my losses.

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i thought they have the option of muting audio now?

people are downvoting a question?

so i looked myself. seems like there is that option now. they also have an option to just "mute" the infringed song but it's in beta

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2902117?hl=en

That's not a question. That's a statement with a question mark at the end. Also, the statement ignores the fact that the parent comment asserted edits have no impact on demonitization, so even if it was correct it would be moot.

In many languages the question mark can be the only difference on print between interrogative and declarative sentence, and as my native language is one of them, I hope that English will develop in that direction.

English can work that way too, converting statements to questions with inflection or the addition of a question mark. e.g. "You understand?"

However, in this case, interpreting this as question rather than a statement leads us to see a question about the inner thoughts of the commenter, which clearly is not what was intended.

What I believe was intended was to make a statement that was to be understood as uncertain. However, the "I think" prefix is all that is necessary for that and the addition of a question mark just creates uncertainty about the it being interrogative/declarative.

I interpreted it as 'upspeak'

Comments like this one are outside community guidelines. You really shouldn’t be begging for votes on here.

Upvoted you to compensate :) Also, thanks for sharing the link

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