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YouTube Heroes program seeks crowdsourced moderation, but panned as censorship
YouTube is looking for 'heroes' to help moderate its content and comments sections, but early feedback has been overwhelmingly negative with users describing it as crowdsourced censorship.
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+3Submitted 7 years ago by drunkenninja
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+2Submitted 7 years ago by NinjaKlaus
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So they are giving flagging / removal power to the very same commenting community that spews all that racist, homophobic and hateful crap just so they can save a few bucks on proper content moderation... hmm OK, I guess we will see how it goes, but from the looks of it, people aren't too happy with this approach.
So far --> 7,093 Likes vs 410,667 Dislikes. Wow.
Edit: Oh and they turned off comments in their explainer video to avoid feedback from the very same community they are empowering to be "heroes", this is not a great sign!