Youtubers Can Take Courses to Clear Warnings from Their History

YouTube is introducing new measures to assist creators in rectifying their rule-breaking actions. From now on, individuals who receive a warning for breaching community guidelines will have the opportunity to participate in a training course aimed at enhancing their comprehension of YouTube’s regulations and avoiding the uploading of prohibited videos. Upon successful completion of the course and maintaining compliance for 90 days, YouTube will erase the warning from their account. Essentially, this allows them to attend a form of detention to prevent a suspension.

If they violate the policy for which they received a warning for the second time in about three months, YouTube will remove that video and give the creator the dreaded warning (which can jeopardize their chances of making a living on the platform ). A creator who completes a course and has the strike removed from their account after 90 days, but then violates the same policy again, is back to square one — YouTube removes the offending video and issues them another strike. They can go through another training program to get another strike removed from their account.

Another big change is that YouTube has until now given creators who cross the border one general lifetime warning. From now on, the accounts of creators who violate the rules will be issued warnings based on which policies they are violating. So they can have multiple warnings on their account and have the option to attend each training course to have them erased.

YouTube began handing out one-time warnings in 2019 for the first rule violation, which it said offered “creators an opportunity to review what went wrong before being dealt more penalties” (ie, warnings). The service points out that more than 80 percent of content producers who received a warning have not broken the rules since then. However, according to YouTube, creators told the team that “they want more resources to better understand how we align our policies,” and this new approach is aimed at increasing transparency.

It should be kept in mind that the three strikes policy is still in effect. If a creator receives three strikes within 90 days, it is still likely that YouTube will remove them from the platform. For extreme rule violations, warnings can still be issued and the channel terminated, even if the content producer has taken these courses. No changes have been made to the community rules either.

“We continue to work to make our policies easier for creators to understand,” YouTube said. “Ultimately, we want creators to have the clarity they need to remain strike-free on our platform — while maintaining a healthy YouTube community.”

YouTube users are given the opportunity to learn and grow from their mistakes, even if some bad actors try to abuse the system by knowingly uploading a few videos that exceed the limit every year. Meanwhile, Xbox recently implemented an eight strike enforcement policy that allows its users to have the strikes removed from their accounts after six months.