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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is that a +5 I agree or the -1 burn in hell you troll?
"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
On the other hand, Digg used community moderation too. I witnessed it's sudden and spectacular decline. Community moderation was part of the cause for that. It started out as individuals upvoting comments they agreed with and downvoting or reporting comments they disliked, but then it grew organised. Bands of dedicated activists, striving to make their political view dominant. The DiggPatriots were the best known and one of the better organised groups, but not the only one - they monitored upcoming stories, identifying anything that they judged too 'liberal' before it hit the front page and burying it with coordinated down-votes, as well as scouring the comment history of liberal community members for anything they could report as a terms of service violation.
Eventually it got so bad that the community could no longer trust Digg, and declined. To put the nail in the coffin the site then underwent a redesign, in part to make it more resistant to coordinated manipulation - but after the redesign, despite the owner's promise of no paid article placement, the front page was suddenly filled with product reviews, all of them glowingly positive. The Digg traffic graph became a cliff heading down, and the site is now a shadow of what it once was.
It's not free. They pay you in self-esteem: you're a hero, and you get access to the exclusive hero forum.
For a similar offer from Slashdot. Moderating is so yesterday, I want to be a Slashdot Hero !
...omphaloskepsis often...
....and I clean up.
Well, brace for corporate washing youtube off any negative reviews as well.
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.
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.
Early tests seemed to indicate the program's original name of "Youtube Snitches" was not very enticing.
Maybe we deserve this world ?
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."
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
Moderation is censorship. Censorship is groupthink.
That's right. And what can you put on to youtube that offends no one? And if you are offended, it is easier to find people to give you support than if you are not offended.
I think Youtube is too tame as it is. The nature of Internet is that it is always my own choice to click and view content, I don't want other people with more moderate ideas to limit my experience.