YouTube Heroes program rewards people who report videos

Google has launched a new reward scheme that offers incentives for users to report videos that violate the site's guidelines. YouTube Heroes program also enables YouTubers to earn points for doing things like adding subtitles to a video and responding to questions in the help forums. While the promise of rewards for helping to "create the best possible YouTube experience for everyone" is appealing, critics are not happy with the fact that users will now have an added incentive to report videos. The primary concerns around offering rewards for reporting videos are that YouTube is crowdsourcing free moderation from users,… [Continue Reading]