Push videos across multiple Video hosting sites instantly. Increase website traffic with mass video publishing. Like Youtube, Google Video and more. The YouTube blog closes with a cute baseball analogy, suggesting that the video portal needs rules just like baseball does… only now, users will be able to “talk to the umpire.”This is limited to just strikes for Community Guidelines violations, meaning there are other strikes your account can receive that cannot be appealed this way—I’m guessing this mostly applies to stuff like copyright violations.
Just as any massive website that uses a flagging system, YouTube’s flagging system is surely being abused by ill-minded users seeking to punish their competitors. I’ve seen the same kind of thing on Craigslist and even with review systems like Amazon uses. So I think this is a good step in a good direction. Surely there are lots of users who have seen their videos removed or their account stricken who have been frustrated by the appeals process.
This new system doesn’t make your appeal any more or less likely to win out, mind you, as the ultimate authority still rests with faceless YouTube officials. This won’t eliminate the issue of wrongfully-flagged videos receiving strikes. But it does make appeals easier, which is something that was long overdue.
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