UKHypnotist
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I usually go up to the Official YouTube Help Forum a couple of times a day, just to see what is happening. I'm occasionally able to answer some of the many questions asked by Creators who frequent that forum.
Lately I've noticed a couple of rather disturbing trends in postings; both of these are related to the current monetization delay.
The first, is a tendency for creators from India specifically to simply copy and paste from another post in order to ask their question. The particular post in question reads thusly...(I am reading in another window and typing out what I see.)
Post title: "why my monetization not enabled?" Please note the lack of proper title capitalization here.
Post body is usually: "Hi Youtube
....................My Channel has Crossed the limit of monetization activation but still my channel monetization is not enabled since some days.
Please solve this issue as soon as possible.
My Channel Link URL:-"
After which the post-copier's actual URL is pasted in. There are two things that are bothering me greatly about this post form. One of course is the copy/paste format itself. The other is how it is being handled by the TC's on the forum. Please take careful note of the fact that though I may be critical, this is by no means meant to be any form of hate speech against the TC cadre of the Help Forum; I believe they are doing the best job they think they can, in a flood of posts which goes on minute by minute.
The mods and TCs seem to be simply duplicating the posts to the main Monetization Status Update thread, without checking the URLs provided in their hurry to get to the next post. If they did check, they could possibly stop at least half of these people from posting a second time for one simple reason.
Fully 2/3rds of these posts are being done by channel owners supplying ineligible URLs! And by ineligible, I mean channels with either less than 1000 subscribers, less than 4000 watch time hours in the last 365 days, or both of the above. In at least two cases, I've found that the complaining channel owner had 0 subs and 0 videos.
The second thing is the sense of "entitlement to monetization" which seems to be prevalent today. Why can't someone just pin a post which explains that reaching review threshold is not a concrete gaurantee of channel monetization; and that there are circumstances under which monetization can and will be denied (and name those circumstances)? That would go a long way towards stopping the ceaseless flood of "My Channel Still Isn't Monetized" complaints.
Though no one here can change what happens over there, I'd love to see some discussion of these points; especially as I know there are a couple of Help Forum TCs who frequent this forum as well.
Lately I've noticed a couple of rather disturbing trends in postings; both of these are related to the current monetization delay.
The first, is a tendency for creators from India specifically to simply copy and paste from another post in order to ask their question. The particular post in question reads thusly...(I am reading in another window and typing out what I see.)
Post title: "why my monetization not enabled?" Please note the lack of proper title capitalization here.
Post body is usually: "Hi Youtube
....................My Channel has Crossed the limit of monetization activation but still my channel monetization is not enabled since some days.
Please solve this issue as soon as possible.
My Channel Link URL:-"
After which the post-copier's actual URL is pasted in. There are two things that are bothering me greatly about this post form. One of course is the copy/paste format itself. The other is how it is being handled by the TC's on the forum. Please take careful note of the fact that though I may be critical, this is by no means meant to be any form of hate speech against the TC cadre of the Help Forum; I believe they are doing the best job they think they can, in a flood of posts which goes on minute by minute.
The mods and TCs seem to be simply duplicating the posts to the main Monetization Status Update thread, without checking the URLs provided in their hurry to get to the next post. If they did check, they could possibly stop at least half of these people from posting a second time for one simple reason.
Fully 2/3rds of these posts are being done by channel owners supplying ineligible URLs! And by ineligible, I mean channels with either less than 1000 subscribers, less than 4000 watch time hours in the last 365 days, or both of the above. In at least two cases, I've found that the complaining channel owner had 0 subs and 0 videos.
The second thing is the sense of "entitlement to monetization" which seems to be prevalent today. Why can't someone just pin a post which explains that reaching review threshold is not a concrete gaurantee of channel monetization; and that there are circumstances under which monetization can and will be denied (and name those circumstances)? That would go a long way towards stopping the ceaseless flood of "My Channel Still Isn't Monetized" complaints.
Though no one here can change what happens over there, I'd love to see some discussion of these points; especially as I know there are a couple of Help Forum TCs who frequent this forum as well.
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