YouTube Asks Creators To Take Training Courses So Their Content Doesn't Violate Policies

JAKARTA - YouTube is starting to take other steps so that its content creators can better understand the policies implemented by the company, by presenting educational training courses.

Currently, most creators upload content in good faith and do not violate policies.

YouTube said, to better help those who accidentally violate the line, it continues to seek to introduce new tools to help creators avoid the Community Guidelines' reprimand.

However, as Community Guidelines are updated, creators told YouTube they need more resources to better understand how to define policy lines.

"Starting today, creators have the option to take education training courses when they receive Community Guidelines warnings," YouTube said in its announcement, quoted Wednesday, August 30.

According to YouTube, this course will provide a new way for creators to understand how they avoid content that violates their policies in the future.

"We believe that educational efforts have succeeded in reducing the number of creators who accidentally violated our policies," said YouTube.

The training has been designed to provide creators with more clarity on what types of content violate YouTube's policies.

"For example, a creator who posts videos meant to educate about sexual health, but we decided that the video violates our Community Guidelines because it does not have an adequate context based on our policy on nudity and sexual content," said YouTube.

Previously, YouTube would delete the video and apply a lifetime warning to the creator's channel.

But going forward, while the platform will still remove infringing content, creators who choose to take courses will review a series of questions about sexual content policies and learn how to stick to the company's line of policy.

"Settlement of courses will remove warnings from creator channels, as long as they don't violate the same policy for 90 days," explained YouTube.

If creators receive only one anniversary of their channel's active lifetime, now they will receive individual warnings depending on the specific policies that are violated.

For information, this Alphabet-owned streaming service began giving a one-time warning for the first policy breach in 2019, which provided creators with the opportunity to review their mistakes before facing further penalties.

Now, based on YouTube data, more than 80 percent of creators who receive warnings never violate their policies again.