YouTube Rolls Out Revamped Community Guidelines Strikes System

YouTube is promising more consistent penalties under a new community guidelines strikes system it announced Tuesday. Starting Feb. 25, YouTube channels will receive a one-time warning for content "that crosses the line," with the warning carrying no penalties except for the removal of that content, it blogged. It said it's expanding its help center to elaborate on behavior that will result in a strike, including detailed examples of guidelines-violating content. It said all strikes will carry consistent penalties, regardless of whether the problematic content was a video, thumbnails or links to other websites: first strike being a one-week freeze on uploading any new content, with the strike expiring after 90 days, second strike within that 90 days resulting in a two-week freeze and third strike channel termination. YouTube said it was making available more details on what policies were violated when content creators get email and desktop notifications.