YouTube’s new plan to deal with awful comments: have commenters help moderate - The Verge

YouTube has a new plan to start turning around its famously bad comments: get the community involved in moderating them. It launched a new program this week called YouTube Heroes, which rewards people for reporting bad comments, writing accurate subtitles, and answering forum questions. These so-called Heroes won’t actually have direct power over the site. So it’s not like someone will be able to go around removing comments at will or adding profane subtitles to others’ videos. They can try — but actual YouTube employees are still the ones tasked with removing bad comments and approving good subtitles.