Information

The following League of Reason blog entries should give you a good idea of what TubeGuardian is all about:

• Leaguer fights back against Votebotting, TubeGuardian in development
• TubeGuardian has arrived, have we won?

Please be sure to read to completion before posting a support request HERE.

The most simple step by step is as follows:

1. Boot the program up, it should be in your start menu under TubeGuardian.
2. right click the yeti icon on the bottom right hand side of your screen near where the clock is (I'll call this the menu from here on out) and, click "Settings"
3. Type in your username and password then click "Add Account," your username should appear in the list on the right. Be careful typing your password, you wont be able to see it from here on out in the program. If you mess up, you can always remove the account from the list, and add it again. You can also add accounts that you don't know the password on in order to collect stats on other peoples' videos. To do that, you would enter their name, but for the password you'd enter a dash "-" (no quotes). The program obviously cannot enable and disable ratings on their accounts, so it will just collect data (cool for nerds like myself!)
4. Click the "Collector" tab in the settings form you have open. The setting you see is how often the program refreshes your video statistics. 10 minutes (the dafault) should be pretty good for someone with the sort of traffic you get.
5. Click the "Guardian" tab in the settings form. The program considers the most recent ratings that you've gotten, and the first option tells the program how many of the newest changes in ratings to look at. Again, the default value of 10 is pretty good for your traffic range. The second option on this form tells the program what kind of rating should set off the alarm bells. I imagine you get mostly 5 *'s seeing as you're awesome, so you might bump this setting up a little bit to say ... 2.5-3.0. This means that if at any time the program sees that the 10 most recent ratings were, on average, less than 2.5 the program will consider that video under attack.
6. Click Save & Exit
7. Menu -> Observer Status, this form tells you all kinds of fun information once the program starts collecting data, let's turn it on
8. Menu -> Enable Observer
9. Menu -> Enable Guardian

Now the program is running, and protecting your videos! You can confirm that it works by waiting for a moment after you've enabled the observer, then click the text to the left of the progress bar on the bottom of the Observer Status form to force the form to refresh itself (it checks if the observer has new data once per minute so as not to slow your computer down, but again you can force it to refresh on demand). By now, you should have videos showing in the Observer Status form. Most of the stats should be relatively obvious, the tough ones are: ANR, and ANR10, but they simply mean "average new rating over all data" and "average new rating for the last 10 ratings" respectively. From this screen you can right click the list of videos to enable or disable individual or multiple videos manually. Finally, click menu -> Toolbox -> enable all. A window "ED" should pop in a moment. This is what the program looks like when it's enabling/disabling stuff. Once it has enabled ratings on a video or two, click "cancel all actions" and close ED down, you're 100% operational!

If you fail to get videos, you've incorrectly entered your password. If you get videos and are unable to enable/disable video ratings, let me know as it may be a bug.

General Help

Settings Information:

* Accounts
You can add multiple accounts for the Observer to watch. If you'd like to add an account that is not capable of enabling or disabling videos enter a dash (-) for the account password. You can add and remove accounts while the Guardian is running.

* Collector/Observer
The collector is enabled through the main menu. You can change how often the observer refreshes your data. Recommended setting: 10 mins

* Guardian
The guardian is enabled through the main menu. You can change the conditions under which the Guardian determines a video is under attack. The Guardian figures out what the average new rating (1-5) was for a certain number of ratings it has seen. It will look at the most recent data, and you tell it how many ratings to look at, and how low of an average rating you think should trigger the protection. My videos (like most) usually stay around 4-5 stars, some (I thought my Electone mashup was cool!) get down into the 3-4 range, so I set my Guardian to look at the last 5 ratings, and to trigger if they are 2.5 or less.

Information displays:

For now, this is the main status page (statistics coming soon!). The Observer and Guardian are their own entities. They work independent of everything else in the program as long as you've enabled them through the menu. Because they do their own thing, the information displays simply "listen" to what's going on, and report the results every once in a while. This means that the information on a form may be out of date for several seconds to a minute depending on the timing of the updates to information and interface.

* Observer status
On this form, the events list is updated in real time. It is also emptied if you close the form. The information is more for debugging purposes than anything else, so don't worry about it being cleared. The top window displays all of the videos that the observer is watching, along with an array of statistics. This list updates once per minute, and the timer is represented by the progress bar at the bottom of the window. You can for the list to update by clicking to the left of the progress bar. You can select video entries in the main list, and right click to bring up options for one or multiple selected items. Here, you can enable/disable individual or groups of videos, and you can easily open up your default browser to the Edit/Insight/Main video page.

Statistics fields:
ANR - Average New Rating is the average rating of all votes the observer has seen
ANR10 - Average New Rating of the last 10 ratings Observer has seen (how am I doing lately?)
The numbers in parenthesis represents how much movement the Observer has seen total in a particular field)

* ED
ED pops up whenever a video needs enabling or disabling. Again, the list does not update in real time, rather it updates when something happens. As such, initially ED will report one action before the interface updates to show how many actual actions he needs to take care of. There have been minor bugs reported in ED (a blank message box pops up at times). If you experience this issue, please mark the time and contact me (joshTheGoods) on my YouTube channel. We'll get it ironed out!



* Tools
- Enable all / Disable all: this will enable every video that the observer is capable of disabling or enabling. If you have not let the observer update by enabling it for one data cycle, then there will be nothing for it to enable or disable. If you have multiple accounts in your account list, it will disable/enable them all! - Open, Clear, Save collector log: Does what it sounds like :). Save saves all of the data the observer currently holds. This data is automatically written to the main log file in the application directory. Clear deletes the main data log. Open shows the current data log in notepad.

If you have any suggestions/comments/whatever, please visit my youtube channel: joshTheGoods, and leave me a message. Final note, the program will start with windows by default via being in the startmenu's "Startup" folder. This means if you do not want TG to autostart, just find it in the startmenu under "startup" and right-click delete the shortcut. Don't worry, you're not deteleting the program itself. TG will also automatically start up the observer and guardian with the saved settings under the condition that there are account details loaded. This way, if your computer restarts when you're unaware, TG will auto start and begin protecting your hard work.