YouTube – Huge Shut Down of Member Sites!

www.YouTube.com/DanRingwald was another victim of YouTube automated mismanagement.

Talk about not putting all your eggs in one basket! Be careful about putting all your video eggs in the YouTube basket or you could get burned!!!

I was horrified to see three years worth of my educational videos shut down by YouTube. With a single click and no warning, my site was shut down for an inappropriate video. I have uploaded that video to another location so everyone can see its just an educational video about the local Santa Barbara Real Estate market by local Real Estate agent Justin Urban. As you can see there is nothing inappropriate about this video. If you spot anything please call me or email me and let me know. If you are confused why this would happen join the rising number of YouTube Victims. Maybe it’s their way of cutting costs without have to explain it to anyone.

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Notice these YouTube messages came to me all on the same day all in the same email with no warning and no time for me to take an action. Notice I did take action.

YouTube Service <noreply@youtube.com> Apr 10 (2 days ago)

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Regarding your account: Dan Ringwald

The YouTube Community has flagged one or more of your videos as inappropriate. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed by the YouTube Team against our Community Guidelines. Upon review, we have determined that the following video(s) contain content in violation of these guidelines, and have been disabled:

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Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning strike, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to post content to YouTube and/or the permanent termination of your account.

For more information on YouTube’s Community Guidelines and how they are enforced, please visit the help center.

Please note that deleting this video will not resolve the strike on your account. For more information about how to appeal a strike, please visit this page in the help center.

Sincerely,

The YouTube Team

YouTube Service <noreply@youtube.com> Apr 10 (2 days ago)

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Regarding your account: Dan Ringwald

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For more information on YouTube’s Community Guidelines and how they are enforced, please visit the help center.

Please note that deleting this video will not resolve the strike on your account. For more information about how to appeal a strike, please visit this page in the help center.

Sincerely,

The YouTube Team

YouTube Service <noreply@youtube.com> Apr 10 (2 days ago)

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Regarding your account: Dan Ringwald

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For more information on YouTube’s Community Guidelines and how they are enforced, please visit the help center.

Please note that deleting this video will not resolve the strike on your account. For more information about how to appeal a strike, please visit this page in the help center.

Sincerely,

The YouTube Team

YouTube Service <noreply@youtube.com> Apr 10 (2 days ago)

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Regarding your account: Dan Ringwald

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Because this is the third violation of the Community Guidelines in six months and you have received previous warnings, your account has now been terminated. Please be aware that you are prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other YouTube accounts.

For more information on YouTube’s Community Guidelines and how they are enforced, please visit the help center.

Please note that deleting this video will not resolve the strike on your account. For more information about how to appeal a strike, please visit this page in the help center.

Sincerely,

The YouTube Team

Original Message Follows:
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From: Dan Ringwald <danringwald@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [#1262675677] danringwald@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:59:35 -0700
Ok, so here is the link

https://santabarbarareia.com/youtube

I put this up to help explain to my clients why you have shut down my YouTube account. You gave me no warning and no help to educate me on what is in these videos that I shouldn’t have in there that you state is inappropriate. If you can’t be more specific I will just move on to another company with humans not machines and continue to bad mouth YouTube so others don’t waste their time with robots.

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From: YouTube Support <support@youtube.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [#1262675677] danringwald@gmail.com
To: Dan Ringwald <danringwald@gmail.com>

Hi there,

Thank you for your email.

We have re-reviewed the circumstances of your suspension and have
concluded it is appropriate to reinstate your account. This means your
account is once again active and operational.

Regards,

The YouTube Team

What one of many YouTube members had to say about his account being shut down:
so today an automated message came in the email, after a week of waiting, it is a bit disappointing to receive an automated message.
“We are unable to provide specific detail regarding your account suspension
or your video’s removal. For more information on our what we consider
inappropriate content or conduct while using YouTube, please visit our
Community Guidelines and Tips at”

Basically, the conclusion of mine from this incident is pretty simple.
Someone runs an automated flagger software. After some research around online it appears this tool exists.
Youtube reviews a flagged channel that was on a great standing, bans it without a warning, sends an automated message.

Channel creator is upset, sends out a message to YouTube. One week goes by, YouTube replies with an automated message.

At this point all there’s left to conclude is
Humanity ≠ YouTube
YouTube = Robots and Automation.

Alright www.Vimeo.com, here we come