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YouTube Is Looking for Volunteers To Improve Its Site (fortune.com)
The video-sharing site is looking for "heroes." YouTube is looking for a few good users who want to be "Heroes." Google's video-sharing site wants volunteers to help moderate its content by flagging inappropriate content, fielding questions in YouTube Help forums, and contributing video captions and subtitles, reports Reuters. From the report:Performing those types of tasks will help users earn points in the site's new crowdsourcing program, called "YouTube Heroes." YouTube announced the "Heroes" program in a post on the site's help channel on Wednesday that included a video showing prospective volunteers how they can participate and the perks they can earn. "You work hard to make YouTube better for everyone and, like all heroes, you deserve a place to call home," YouTube says in the video.
Making millions in value-add for Google as an unpaid volunteer.
I not only get to donate my time for free to a scummy multi billion dollar company but I get to promote censorship at the same time.
We are a multibillion $ company and the YouTube property makes us a ton of cash.
That said... well, we would LIKE to pay people to help make our site better.... but, well, our executives won't let us... something about buying an island... anyway, thanks!
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Community Moderation, you know, just like Slashdot. :/ When I get mod points here, I feel like I'm a part of something. Will the same hold true for YouTube?
Sounds like wikipedia editors, camping out on a particular topic and not allowing any view counter to their own. I assume some limitations will be there, but seems potential for abuse, because the system is already abused.
What could possibly go wrong....... I for one look forward to seeing how quickly this degenerates into a hand full of warring fiefdoms.
We want a bunch of people to work for us basically for free.
Oh good, unpaid volunteers deciding what's allowed and not allowed on the site. I'm sure they'll follow the guidelines, right? RIGHT?
The perks are crap.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
They're richer than god, they can PAY me for my time. Unless by volunteering they flag my account to never get annoying ads again, and offer me 4TB of free google drive and encrypted end-to-end email for life, I won't be lifting a finger to 'volunteer' for them. Come on Google, you could put a big dent in student unemployment by hiring an army of summer students for this type of stuff.
Slashdot seems to have eaten everything past the first double quote symbol. Sorry about that, chief.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
not quite the same. sure, slashdot has community moderation but of the comments. posting of stories are controlled slashdot staff. also, demographics are different. plus w/ false-flagging, mass flagging, and other abuse issues that exists even now (before "YouTube Heroes"), there's more problems that it can create than solve. shoot, this has the potential to empower the trolls let alone feed them.
Why don't they employ someone, i.e. pay them to do it.
We need less of that, not more. What's more lame than clicking on a vid of a favorite song, when it's made by some org that puts together a bikini or lingerie montage to it, and Google blocks it and asks for a sign in. Youtube is not a porn site, if I see a pasty I'm not going to die. I can see far worse doing a simple Bing search with the mommy filter off.
I'm looking for volunteers to fluff my pillow and scratch my balls.
It's an unpaid position, but think how good it will look on your resume.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The video-sharing site is looking for "heroes." YouTube is looking for a few good users who want to be "Heroes."
Why not say it a third time, just to really hammer home the point that the editors are totally half-arsing the job they're paid to do?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
The last time I did that, I was hit with a community strike years ago.
...internship I was looking for! Where do I sign up for some more Reaganomics as I self-flagellate at the doorstep of unfettered crowdsourced capitalism?
How about Gootube brings back some of those tax dollars from overseas to HIRE SOME BROKE-ASS COLLEGE GRADUATES to write some subtitles?
That would be fucking heroic...Or, at least, that would be something that a company which did no evil would do.
"YouTube Is Looking for Volunteers To Improve Its Site"
Fuck you pay me
If you think that YouTube getting "free" aid is a problem, think again. Ponder for a moment who would willingly become a "free" moderator. Well? Right. Someone who has a reason to do so. The perks? Peanuts.
The ability to dictate what is and isn't "appropriate"? Bingo.
I predict that before the PR-note is out that the first moderators have taken the helm, we'll already have a juicy edit war on our hands. Some controversial video poster will be flagged "inappropriate" by his or her opponents, only to get an immediate response by the other side for their controversial figure. In the end, it will depend on who can field more armchair revolutionaries and opinion dictators.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"YouTube Is Looking for Volunteers To Improve Its Site"
TRANSLATION:
"YouTube Is Looking for Suckers To Work For Free"
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Whose army is bigger?
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
That way, they don't actually have to pay anyone, something they excel at. Meanwhile, they will reap fat profits on the backs of their 'volunteers'. When will people learn that crowdsourcing is one of the biggest scams ever concieved? Demand to be paid for your time, you are worth it.
And they don't pay taxes either
Google's chairman says he is "proud" of the way his company avoids paying taxes. "It's called capitalism," http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/24/investing/apple-google-trillion-dollar-market-value/
For a similar offer from Slashdot. Moderating is so yesterday, I want to be a Slashdot Hero !
...omphaloskepsis often...
Imdb have a similar program which gives users all sorts of stupid achievement badges. Some losers obsess on acquiring them: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd00... http://boardreader.com/thread/...
Others call it out for the wankery it is:
Theo Robertson: "The problem with rewarding anyone on this site means paradoxically people will denigrate the site in order to become more important on it. Take the prolific author list for example where people constantly bombard the site with " reviews " that are composed of nothing more than the plot summary and cast list."
Rogue2: "Lol I just noticed mine. Reminds me of kindergarten when I was rewarded for drawing within the lines"
PS Imdb owned by Amazon.
Between the alt-right and the alt-left there won't be any videos.
....and I clean up.
Just for one day, though.
Pay me then Maybe. But I'll guess you'll get a lot of those Marxist SJWs to ban everything that triggers them for free.
FUCK YOU PAY ME
You fuck knobs at Google all sleep on big piles of money every night. You can damn well afford to pay those involved in "improving" your websites.
Sounds like East Germany...
So many people would like to be a moderator on various forums. Not sure why people want to give away their time for free to a website that makes money off their work.
...lifetime free fiber, and free cell/wireless.
..allowed to confiscate the vidcams of millions of clueless "content creators"?
Ok, I read TFA and everything else and it looks like they're not adding any new features that weren't there, just adding some ways to reward people who do this stuff.
I've spent 10 months trying to get YouTube support to mend my broken YouTube/Google account, but haven't heard nothing from them. Adding more and more random people between you and YouTube, will not make the support better, but worse. You only get customer support if you're one of the profitable channels.
Early tests seemed to indicate the program's original name of "Youtube Snitches" was not very enticing.
Maybe we deserve this world ?
Instead of getting paid in dollars you can get wonderful perks in return for your time. And even underage children can work without any consequence. That's just amazing
People who troll around youtube looking for content that might be inappropriate aren't what you would call "Heroes."
They're more what you call "whiny little bitches."
To note: youtube is not profitable for google. It only recently broke even--- bandwidth and storage are not cheap.
Youtube Heroes sounds like a twelfth-generation console video game, where you get to play the moderator on an "Unregulated Internet website for sharing illegal videos," where you have axe battles with trolls and whatever chumps actually comment on youtube. Bonus points for witty remarks about "37 people love Voldemort!!1" and minus points for the generic grinding with "
[generic ascii art here]
-----> Click here to expand to read more..."
Delete all present You tube content, and start over.
But, can you flag as "inappropriate" content that claims proven falsehoods as fact? .... Thinking of the channel for an anti-nuclear whack job that claims that California is a wasteland because the I-131 from Fukushima killed everyone.
NRRPT/RCT