YouTube badly needs moderators *poll*

I'm not saying they should adopt a strict terms of use like online forums do, but they badly need moderators to stem the tide of the frankly out of control mass of racists and bigots which seem to have overwhelmed the community there.

It's gotten to a point where i can no longer email my little brother a video i think will make him laugh because it'll almost definately have comments directly underneath containing racial slurs and general, putrid comments of hate and ignorance.

Most people say it's too big a site to moderate, but i say if wikipedia can govern itself so efficiently so can YouTube. They need not impose strict rules or suspensions, just have a community of mods to instantly and permanently ban those who obviously post comments of a hateful nature on any video they can.

Thoughts?

Moderators to take care of all the little kids that post random videos, post a random slew of profane language for no reason, troll and just get on everyones nerves...

they have this already its called setting your comments to approve only or turning them off, people just need to do this more often, its easy just edit video scroll to comments select dont allow comments or allow comments with approval very easy all mine are set to approve so i weed out the bad ones like the ones you stated

Please, if you're going to make a poll be more conrete in your poll choices.. "I really could care less" is not how I feel about it, but out of the other 2 choices.. it's the best response.. because I was going to say No. Moderators is a poor way to handle the problem. They need to find a better solution than having somebody sit behind a computer screen and discipline others.. it's needs to be based off of the community... the community needs to take action and hold it self responsible for certain behavior.

I think that it should be moderated. Reason? Once I was looking up something on like Paul Hamm and came across a video that was like "Girl does amazing ___" so I was like hmm let me check this out. Well what I found was a little girl had made an account under a false name and such and was posting videos of herself doing well...stretch things for gymnastics. And about 30 pedophiles writing comments asking her to do this and that and like...idk...basically it was child pornography. And when I reported it into the youtube people they said nobody was violating any terms or conditions. :( So that made me VERY mad.

I'm for free speech. Regardless of what people want to say, they should be free to say it. I'm not offended by things posted on the internet, and think that if anyone is, they are taking it too seriously.

I could understand the posting of illegal material, or pornography, or threats that can be taken seriously, or exploitation of minors. But if someone wants to make a racist comment, whether serious or not, they should feel free to post it. Either for the lulz or not. Any kind of censorship only hurts the internet.

they have this already its called setting your comments to approve only or turning them off, people just need to do this more often, its easy just edit video scroll to comments select dont allow comments or allow comments with approval very easy all mine are set to approve so i weed out the bad ones like the ones you stated

cornholio157

Simple solution, give the video a thumbs up for the "Positive" and then say whatever you want. This doesn't solve anything. People do find ways around these things to mess with you...you do know that right?

No. Youtube is perfectly fine. I LOVE having my share of words on that site. If you can't handle the racism and bigotry then stay away from those heated videos on race and what not. People have every right to their opinions, regardless if its positive or negative or if you agree or disagree.

And that's exactly what is WRONG (and the problem) with annoying moderators. My freedom of speech is constantly being hindered,it simply goes against what I love about America.

It's bad enough I can't say enough without being moderated on a gaming forum, no offense, GS :P

No. Youtube is perfectly fine. I LOVE having my share of words on that site. If you can't handle the racism and bigotry then stay away from those heated videos on race and what not. People have every right to their opinions, regardless if its positive or negative or if you agree or disagree.

And that's exactly what is WRONG (and the problem) with annoying moderators. My freedom of speech is constantly being hindered,it simply goes against what I love about America.

It's bad enough I can't say enough without being moderated on a gaming forum, no offense, GS :P

VERTIGO47

No. Youtube is perfectly fine. I LOVE having my share of words on that site. If you can't handle the racism and bigotry then stay away from those heated videos on race and what not. People have every right to their opinions, regardless if its positive or negative or if you agree or disagree.

And that's exactly what is WRONG (and the problem) with annoying moderators. My freedom of speech is constantly being hindered,it simply goes against what I love about America.

It's bad enough I can't say enough without being moderated on a gaming forum, no offense, GS :P

VERTIGO47

No. Youtube is perfectly fine. I LOVE having my share of words on that site. If you can't handle the racism and bigotry then stay away from those heated videos on race and what not. People have every right to their opinions, regardless if its positive or negative or if you agree or disagree.

And that's exactly what is WRONG (and the problem) with annoying moderators. My freedom of speech is constantly being hindered,it simply goes against what I love about America.

It's bad enough I can't say enough without being moderated on a gaming forum, no offense, GS :P

VERTIGO47

The problem is that people bring race into every single issue. Like the Mcd's video posted on here. Go to it and scroll down and the only comments are racist slurs against blacks because that is who was in the video. The video has NOTHING to do about race and they bring it there.

Also you do realize the internet exists outside of America right? It is American's like you who want to impose every last idea of yours on the world that gives us a bad name. Both our wars are because of this, and it is ridiculous.

Please, if you're going to make a poll be more conrete in your poll choices.. "I really could care less" is not how I feel about it, but out of the other 2 choices.. it's the best response.. because I was going to say No. Moderators is a poor way to handle the problem. They need to find a better solution than having somebody sit behind a computer screen and discipline others.. it's needs to be based off of the community... the community needs to take action and hold it self responsible for certain behavior.

EMOEVOLUTION

I don't think there could ever be enough moderators to regulate the amount of illiteracy and ignorance on that website lol

Please, if you're going to make a poll be more conrete in your poll choices.. "I really could care less" is not how I feel about it, but out of the other 2 choices.. it's the best response.. because I was going to say No. Moderators is a poor way to handle the problem. They need to find a better solution than having somebody sit behind a computer screen and discipline others.. it's needs to be based off of the community... the community needs to take action and hold it self responsible for certain behavior.

EMOEVOLUTION

True. Probably utopic, but true.

Also, TC, the correct form would be "I really could NOT care less". If you say "I could care less", it means you could possibly give less attention to the matter than you are right now, which would mean that you do, in fact, care about it to some degree :)

No. I like it the way it is. The hateful posts are quite funny. When the videos have some non white person doing something wrong then you see the greatest stupidity come out. I love reading some of those posts.

No. Youtube is perfectly fine. I LOVE having my share of words on that site. If you can't handle the racism and bigotry then stay away from those heated videos on race and what not.

VERTIGO47

Racism? Bigots?

No.

It could do the blacks, gays, mexicans, whites, religious folks, atheists and every other whiner a bit of good, to deal with reality and learn how to not cry and whine over words some idiot says.

What comments?

[spoiler] I used Stylish and a custom CSS file to remove them, along with some other minor tweaks. [/spoiler]

Also, TC, the correct form would be "I really could NOT care less". If you say "I could care less", it means you could possibly give less attention to the matter than you are right now, which would mean that you do, in fact, care about it to some degree :)

viva_hate

'I couldn't care less' is a British expression referring to one's caring so little that they literally could not care any less than they already do.

'I could care less' is an American expression referring to a sarcastic notion of 'as if there is something in the world i could care less about than this'. :)

Racism? Bigots?

No.

It could do the blacks, gays, mexicans, whites, religious folks, atheists and every other whiner a bit of good, to deal with reality and learn how to not cry and whine over words some idiot says.

JustusCF

[QUOTE="cornholio157"]

they have this already its called setting your comments to approve only or turning them off, people just need to do this more often, its easy just edit video scroll to comments select dont allow comments or allow comments with approval very easy all mine are set to approve so i weed out the bad ones like the ones you stated

xXDante666Xx

Simple solution, give the video a thumbs up for the "Positive" and then say whatever you want. This doesn't solve anything. People do find ways around these things to mess with you...you do know that right?

what are you talking about? i have comments set to approved by me only and i ignore,deletecomments and block users who are like most jerks on youtube. they cant post a comment and make fun of me behind my back because only me and them can see it till i delete or approve it. delete bad comments and keep good ones.

people need to take responsibilty and moderate their own videos comment sectionlike i do. even better for the lazy people turn comments off problem solved, cant post bad comments on videos that dont any comments.

comment voting is also avalibleand usefulon the allow all comment videos to remove spammers and jerks by voting them down or marking them as spam but the system isnt perfect.

Racism? Bigots?

No.

It could do the blacks, gays, mexicans, whites, religious folks, atheists and every other whiner a bit of good, to deal with reality and learn how to not cry and whine over words some idiot says.

JustusCF

My freedom of speech is constantly being hindered,it simply goes against what I love about America.

VERTIGO47

[QUOTE="VERTIGO47"]

No. Youtube is perfectly fine. I LOVE having my share of words on that site. If you can't handle the racism and bigotry then stay away from those heated videos on race and what not. People have every right to their opinions, regardless if its positive or negative or if you agree or disagree.

And that's exactly what is WRONG (and the problem) with annoying moderators. My freedom of speech is constantly being hindered,it simply goes against what I love about America.

It's bad enough I can't say enough without being moderated on a gaming forum, no offense, GS :P

xaos

Don't get me wrong, people should follow certain rules or regulations or even permits to protest for example. Nonetheless, people have a right to say or express themselves, regardless if people agree or disagree.

Don't get me wrong, people should follow certain rules or regulations or even permits to protest for example. Nonetheless, people have a right to say or express themselves, regardless if people agree or disagree.

VERTIGO47

[QUOTE="JustusCF"]

Racism? Bigots?

No.

It could do the blacks, gays, mexicans, whites, religious folks, atheists and every other whiner a bit of good, to deal with reality and learn how to not cry and whine over words some idiot says.

Doctor-McNinja

My freedom of speech is constantly being hindered,it simply goes against what I love about America.

VERTIGO47

But it can also include as an opinion. You people here are way out of your heads in regards to the technicalities of FREEDOM of SPEECH.

One slight reply I made, then all of a sudden FREEDOM OF SPEECH becomes an entire CNN world report :lol:

[QUOTE="xaos"][QUOTE="VERTIGO47"]

No. Youtube is perfectly fine. I LOVE having my share of words on that site. If you can't handle the racism and bigotry then stay away from those heated videos on race and what not. People have every right to their opinions, regardless if its positive or negative or if you agree or disagree.

And that's exactly what is WRONG (and the problem) with annoying moderators. My freedom of speech is constantly being hindered,it simply goes against what I love about America.

It's bad enough I can't say enough without being moderated on a gaming forum, no offense, GS :P

VERTIGO47

Don't get me wrong, people should follow certain rules or regulations or even permits to protest for example. Nonetheless, people have a right to say or express themselves, regardless if people agree or disagree.

[QUOTE="JustusCF"]

Racism? Bigots?

No.

It could do the blacks, gays, mexicans, whites, religious folks, atheists and every other whiner a bit of good, to deal with reality and learn how to not cry and whine over words some idiot says.

xaos

Actually I'm Mexican. And I've dealt with real racism, threats hurled at me because of my race. I've seen racism hurled at whites, blacks etc. A friend of mine who I was visiting in Oregon was put down and kind of threatened by someone because he was black, naturally I came to his defense because he had a bad childhood and as a result he was a girl... Literally he considers himself to be that (transexual).

But some moron on the web saying he wants to do whatever to whoever? Pleeeeeeease.

But it can also include as an opinion. You people here are way out of your heads in regards to the technicalities of FREEDOM of SPEECH.

VERTIGO47

One slight reply I made, then all of a sudden FREEDOM OF SPEECH becomes an entire CNN world report :lol:

VERTIGO47

'I couldn't care less' is a British expression referring to one's caring so little that they literally could not care any less than they already do.

'I could care less' is an American expression referring to a sarcastic notion of 'as if there is something in the world i could care less about than this'. :)

Doctor-McNinja

I think they should leave it as is. Sure, the comments there can get pretty brutal and ugly, but you have to realize that about 95% (I just made that number up. =] ) of those comments are made by trolls just looking to get a reaction out of people. If people actually feel offended over something some anonymous person said over the internet then they really need to grow a thicker skin. If they want to waste their time responding to them and getting into arguments with them over those comments, then I say let them.

[QUOTE="VERTIGO47"]

One slight reply I made, then all of a sudden FREEDOM OF SPEECH becomes an entire CNN world report :lol:

Doctor-McNinja

And I'm not going SEVERELY BRUTALLY TECHNICAL over the whole Freedom of Speech issue, You guys are. :|

One posted comment I made, and You guys become Harvard Law School grads.

I'm not condoning for any person being racially abusive. But again, if they have to say something, whether it's an opinion, a spin, or sputtering babbling argument, they have the right to. That's all I'm saying.

If it's a racially motivated threat against someone or abuse and what not, of course, that's where the law and authorities come in.

And I'm not going SEVERELY BRUTALLY TECHNICAL over the whole Freedom of Speech issue, You guys are. :|

One posted comment I made, and You guys become Harvard Law School grads.

I'm not condoning for any person being racially abusive. But again, if they have to say something, whether it's an opinion, a spin, or sputtering babbling argument, they have the right to. That's all I'm saying.

If it's a racially motivated threat against someone or abuse and what not, of course, that's where the law and authorities come in.

VERTIGO47

As i said before, you do not have a fundamental right to be racially abusive. The constitution does not grant any right to be racially abusive, and racially abusing someone is not protected under free speech. That is not what free speech is. So in conclusion, no, you absolutely do NOT have a right to say something if what you're saying is racially abusive.

Yeah, everybody's cursing in there.

[QUOTE="VERTIGO47"]

And I'm not going SEVERELY BRUTALLY TECHNICAL over the whole Freedom of Speech issue, You guys are. :|

One posted comment I made, and You guys become Harvard Law School grads.

I'm not condoning for any person being racially abusive. But again, if they have to say something, whether it's an opinion, a spin, or sputtering babbling argument, they have the right to. That's all I'm saying.

If it's a racially motivated threat against someone or abuse and what not, of course, that's where the law and authorities come in.

Doctor-McNinja

As i said before, you do not have a fundamental right to be racially abusive. The constitution does not grant any right to be racially abusive, and racially abusing someone is not protected under free speech. That is not what free speech is. So in conclusion, no, you absolutely do NOT have a right to say something if what you're saying is racially abusive.

Yes I did say forum moderation = hinderance to my free speech and I'll stand by that. It's something that I Personally feel. And I don't expect you guys to agree with it. I'm not going to lie, I'm just being real, and apparently there's no point in arguing with this issue since we're just going to butt heads over it.

And for the second part, I sure hope you're just generally speaking and not shoving that racially abusive thing down my throat, because like I said on my last part, I don't condone any person being racially abusive.

Moderators to take care of all the little kids that post random videos, post a random slew of profane language for no reason, troll and just get on everyones nerves...

Xx_Hopeless_xX

There's a lot of very abusive people that should be ip banned/suspended from youtube in my opinion.

I'm against it because post moderators will lead to more video moderators.

I like my copyright questionable vids.8)