YouTube has a brilliant new policy

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

YouTube is starting a new program called YouTube Heroes

It's pretty much Normal people like you or me doing a bunch of small things to get YouTube points like adding subtitles to videos and whatnot, Report bullying and harassment and ( this is the most important part) Flagging YouTube videos. So they're pretty much leaving YouTube's copyright job to normal users. Seeing how YouTube has been immensely good With their copyright program all I have to say.

 

[Queen Michael]

This will be fun to see.

The other day I read a novel that was so bad it was good. This looks like it will be fun in the same way.

 

[Saltyk]

There's been a long sad history of bad ideas. This is just another entry in that history.

 

[Parasondox]

Will it be abused? Yes. I cant even say maybe. Its a certainty at this point.

 

[Kina]

That's great, hopefully that encourages people to report and flag toxic content.

I'm not quite sure why people are so cynical about all of this though, considering it would all have to be reviewed regardless.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Lets all do it!! Pick Super Hero names, come up with wildly arbitrary criteria, and then make the world err-YouTube, a better place.

 

[hermes]

Paraphrasing Batman as he paraphrased Dick Cheney:

if we believe there?s even a one percent chance that this will be abused, we have to take it as an absolute certainty.

 

[Armadox]

A narc system is never good when it incentivizes the kind of person who needs to have the high score, a means to spend their time combing comments for people to tattle on rather then enjoying the content of the videos themselves. This is going to create piranha communities that attack the comment pages of Pewdiepie, Angry Joe, AVGN, etc[footnote]Though the Amazing Atheist and Leafy's and others who have been creating a community of ill will will have a hell of a time...[/footnote] in hopes of flagging.

YouTube wants a pg-13 feel for advertisers peace of mind... Turning Youtuber against Youtuber is just another step in that cause, and they no longer have to rely on bots for it.

 

[Zhukov]

I for one have great trust in the judgement and general goodwill of your average Youtube commentor.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I think Nash [https://twitter.com/Nash076] made some pretty good comments on it. I don't watch his stuff but I saw some people whose stuff I do watch retweeting the things he said.

We as video makers don't trust @YouTube. They take arbitrary action and leave us no channels for communication. This has never improved.

Now not only is @YouTube allowing randos to police content, THEY get the ability to communicate with support staff. Video makers don't.

Needless to say, not only do I not trust the #YTHeroes program, I resent it. Instead of allowing video makers to talk to them, they do this.

Those three tweets in particular really highlight the blind dickery of Youtube for me. Content creators should be the FIRST people to have the ability to communicate with youtube, not random viewers. Youtube is a platform, not a content maker. It shouldn't be catering to audiences and it CERTAINLY shouldn't be giving those audiences power over the videos. That role should lie with the poeple who MAKE the videos.

 

[vallorn]

Youtubers are responding:


All in all... No way this is going to be abused by creationists, idiots, people with a bone to pick, political activists, etc, etc. Nope, no way at all the people who are most inclined to flag and report for spurious or nitpick reasons will rise through the ranks fastest because of this 'gameification' of the system.

I look forwards to people debunking creationism having things flagged for abusive content because they called creationists names. Insert any political or controversial groups in here and that's what youtube's gonna easily slide into with this scheme.

 

[Smithnikov_v1legacy]

So YT will not only have a caste of Inquisitors, the only criteria is to pay to become one.

 

[burnout02urza]

Oh my god, I have to sign up for this.

Oh Jesus, the power they're putting into my hands.

You fools, you have given me the tools to destroy you! I will be a mad god striding the damned Earth. ALL SHALL FEAR ME AND DESPAIR!

...Seriously, what kind of moron thought that this was a good idea?

LET THE REAPING BEGIN!

 

[09philj]

Oh boy, a whole new front for moronic internet culture wars.

 

[Level 7 Dragon]

This is like a local government organizing an armed militia with little to no regulation or oversight and ask them to detain anybody who they think looks like a "bad guy"

 

[Cap'nPipsqueak]

That's great, hopefully that encourages people to report and flag toxic content.

Or anything they don't like.

Trust me, this'll be used for trolling to such a degree that within a week some people will be afraid to post videos.

 

[GrumbleGrump]

Another terrible idea in an absolutely stunning streak of them. I like how they give power to some random yahoo, not say, the content creators so that they can regulate their own shit. Nope, what have they done for youtube?

 

[Fox12]

Oh YouTube

 

[Zontar]

Will it be abused? Yes. I cant even say maybe. Its a certainty at this point.

I have a legitimate question: is it possible NOT to abuse such a system? I mean obviously not using it at all notwithstanding, is there a means of using this system that isn't inherently abusing it?

The only thing this is going to accomplish is to start a(n internet) war, one that no matter who wins YouTube looses.

 

[Parasondox]

Will it be abused? Yes. I cant even say maybe. Its a certainty at this point.

I have a legitimate question: is it possible NOT to abuse such a system? I mean obviously not using it at all notwithstanding, is there a means of using this system that isn't inherently abusing it?

The only thing this is going to accomplish is to start a(n internet) war, one that no matter who wins YouTube looses.

Of course there is a possibility of zero abuse. If, er, humans decide to be responsible about it. That's a big if, Zontar. Bet it all on black. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T SAY BLACK!!