Youtube Heroes- Youtube to give points, perks for flagging videos, subtitles, ect

[Syntaxvgm]

 

Yep, you heard it here folks. Youtube isn't just committing seppuku, they are making sure the blade is nice and sharp first. 

 

Here's a list of perks 

 

 

Ultimately, the problem in my opinion is the fact that treating flagging videos as 'heroic' and giving points for it turns mass flagging from 

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wow, this video shouldn't be on youtube 

to 

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I bet technically I can get points from this

Which, I would like to point out, cursing is enough to get demonetized 

 

And if you take a look at reddit, people will do a lot for worthless internet points 

 

Edit

I did my best to simulate what subtitles will look like 

 

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

In theory this is a good idea. Some troll is going to ruin this.

 

This was probably their answer to our algrothems sucks and flagging stuff and people are expensive so why not croud souce this.

[Crazy Ginger]

Just wtf.  I hope in addition to the "heros" system there is a separate system for the villans of YouTube.  I.e., repeated false flagging will get your account restricted where you can't report people anymore temporarily with the punishment increasing for each time you get on that list.  

[ThinkWithPortals]

No wonder comments are disabled on the announcement video, it's outrageous. Just look a the ratings.

[AresKrieger]

So I can now get rewarded in my quest to destroy youtubers I don't like, golly what a wonderful idea /s

[goodtofufriday]

To be very fair, Wikipedia is basically community monitored. So its not insane for YT to come to this.

 

However given the community that YT is this just isnt going to go well. 

[AresKrieger]

3 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

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Considering I always see errors on wikipedia notably on topics such as politics I don't find that argument very convincing, especially since if I regularly see errors how many troll changes have I missed

[goodtofufriday]

1 minute ago, AresKrieger said:

Considering I always see errors on wikipedia especially if any topic such as politics are brought up I don't find that argument very convincing, especially since if I regularly see errors how many troll changes have I missed

usually in those cases they close it down to where you need to have an account to make changes. On paper it works and in practice it works on pages with less traffic.

 

But youre right anything with high traffic like politics doesnt result to well. Which lends into why I dont think itll work well on YT either.

[Teddy07]

what a garbage

[glitchmaster0001]

i think the heroes system is a bad idea, since people will abuse the system and flag random videos just to get the perks from doing so. 

[gamerking]

well i see any vid with anything that anyone doesnt like getting the snot kicked out of it by trolls . this is probably not going to end well . but you tube likes to set heaps of cash on fire then scream we keep losing money why ? why dont we make something

[MrRavens]

This would work in a perfect world. We are not in a perfect world. This will be abused. Ofc there will be some genuine ppl that make it their life to collect points and flag videos correctly...though with YouTube's vague, broad stroke rules, "correctly" is quite subjective...so that just adds to the "this system probably wont work well" problem. Not to mention those that will just flag anything for points. "Oh you said f*ck?" *flag* 

[MageTank]

The type of hero youtube expects to get:

 

The kind of hero youtube actually gets:

 

[Prysin]

9 minutes ago, MageTank said:

The type of hero youtube expects to get:

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

The kind of hero youtube actually gets:

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

Hey Magetank, lets create a "hero team" and call it.. "The SS"

[MageTank]

Just now, Prysin said:

Hey Magetank, lets create a "hero team" and call it.. "The SS"

Can't help but feel that would end badly... 

[The Benjamins]

1 minute ago, Prysin said:

Hey Magetank, lets create a "hero team" and call it.. "The SS"

over 10 years ago I was in a MOH AA clan called 9th SS

 

 

Can't google have a algorithm that scores users trust value to weed out trolls

[Prysin]

11 minutes ago, MageTank said:

Can't help but feel that would end badly... 

if anyone asks, it stands for "super subbers".

[noc]

Seriously, this is a recipe for disaster.... yay, you flagged 1000 videos, what a "hero".... Some idiots will go around flagging videos just to be a bigger "hero". Dumb idea Youtube.

[MageTank]

8 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

over 10 years ago I was in a MOH AA clan called 9th SS

 

 

Can't google have a algorithm that scores users trust value to weed out trolls

I had both breakthrough and spearhead. Those anti-gravity multiplayer servers consumed so much of my time after school, good times.

 

As for the trust value, it might be more complicated than that. We live in a world now where everyone is offended by everything, and a lot of it is entirely subjective. Before any of this goes into effect, there needs to be very clear rules on what people can report as offensive. Even then, what offends me might not offend you. Giving random people the power to police anything ends in disaster most of the time. With the vast majority of videos that exist, I highly doubt each claim will be manually reviewed, which leads to the potential of even more abuse than what we already see with the DMCA reports. 

 

Once we have a baseline set of rules preventing people from reporting things they disagree with, then we can work on a trust system to avoid repeat abuse. I honestly believe a strict system needs to be in place. Abuse this, lose your account and every video on it. Make it very clear from the start that this is not something to be toyed with, and that real consequences exist. Repeat abuse will result in total termination of the gmail account attached to it. That will impact android users as well. Though, I highly doubt they will take such an aggressive stance on this, as they let people abuse DMCA with very little consequences, which is far more important.

 

Hopefully a balance is found somewhere with this, or else it's going to get really bad, really quick. 

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

1 hour ago, MageTank said:

I had both breakthrough and spearhead. Those anti-gravity multiplayer servers consumed so much of my time after school, good times.

 

As for the trust value, it might be more complicated than that. We live in a world now where everyone is offended by everything, and a lot of it is entirely subjective. Before any of this goes into effect, there needs to be very clear rules on what people can report as offensive. Even then, what offends me might not offend you. Giving random people the power to police anything ends in disaster most of the time. With the vast majority of videos that exist, I highly doubt each claim will be manually reviewed, which leads to the potential of even more abuse than what we already see with the DMCA reports. 

 

Once we have a baseline set of rules preventing people from reporting things they disagree with, then we can work on a trust system to avoid repeat abuse. I honestly believe a strict system needs to be in place. Abuse this, lose your account and every video on it. Make it very clear from the start that this is not something to be toyed with, and that real consequences exist. Repeat abuse will result in total termination of the gmail account attached to it. That will impact android users as well. Though, I highly doubt they will take such an aggressive stance on this, as they let people abuse DMCA with very little consequences, which is far more important.

 

Hopefully a balance is found somewhere with this, or else it's going to get really bad, really quick. 

With the mess of different regional, political, and sociopolitical cultures out there that we currently have, even setting a baseline will be borderline impossible without relying on already established international rules for society. Even then, they risk inadvertently giving the finger to the anomalies and caveats of each rule, which results in everybody suffering from the repercussions.

 

Sadly, there is simply no solution for situations like this. The world is becoming too small too quickly, and nobody is willing or able to adjust accordingly.

[Misanthrope]

So who Keemstar sending people to flag others is a hero now? 

 

Seriously this hilariously stupid. Good riddance CSF it was a good run. 

[Doobeedoo]

Google is funny with these kind of things or app testing, like just saw there's a new chat app for mobile from them..

[Okjoek]

I kinda like the idea.

[Nowak]

I can't see how this will backfire at all. Clearly, Google has a fool-proof plan here. Nothing they ever do backfires in any way, so why would this?
 

/s

[PlayStation 2]

This surely can't be abused.

 

Christ, this is gonna be a nightmare.