What about the quality of User Generated Content?

What about the quality of User Generated Content?

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If you've got an inbuilt camera or you've got one attached to some high AAA or USB interface, you are already only a tiny click away from being a live contributor to those sites. There's usually an upload option and you can upload what you like, whatever the quality. This naturally makes it extremely difficult for the people who run the sites to monitor quality, because they are getting hundreds of thousands, millions of people uploading vast quantities, in terabytes, of them either expressing themselves in an embarrassing fashion or unloading themselves of some preposterous dull theory of Jesus, and that has to be waded through for quality. Because that's obviously what you get, in that sense it's the street corner and there will be a lot of poor quality material, mad people with banners. But there will be good quality material, good street theatre too. But then you go a little further into the more regulated or more moderated areas and naturally people will be providing really extraordinary things of amazing quality.