Rich Lund

@TeamYouTube There's a *simple* solution that all involved would benefit from. We are asked many things when uploading vids. Has it appeared on TV. Should it have an age restriction. Etc. *Why not* also ask us at that time to verify that it's suitable for all advertisers?

@TeamYouTube Creators could have the options of "Yes, suitable for all advertisers" or "Might not be suitable for all advertisers" or "Not suitable for most advertisers". Then, let the video be published...

@TeamYouTube And *if* the creator already verified it as suitable for all ads, *and* it gets flagged as not suitable by the systems, you can automatically have it be in a category of needing to be manually reviewed, without the creator needing to see that and do something.

@TeamYouTube Further, *if* such a video is flagged this way, creators should be given the benefit of the doubt, and ads should remain. After all, this program is still learning, and is *not* at all reliable yet.

@TeamYouTube Upon manual review, *then* the video could be deemed as suitable or not suitable by a human. In this method 1) Revenue is not wrongly missed out on by the creators nor by YouTube. 2) The system still learns just as much. 3) Creators are not devalued/disrespected.

@TeamYouTube I'm not trying to sound angry with that #3. Believe me, I fully sympathize, you guys are HARD WORKING employees. I imagine your job is not easy, and often thankless. (So let me say it here, THANK YOU for what you do and go through!)

@TeamYouTube But at the same time, it needs to be stated, by having the current system taking ads off videos wrongly, this *is* showing the creators a form of disrespect. It devalues us for our own hard work. Since YouTube *could* do it other ways, but decides not to...

@TeamYouTube ...it sends a message to us that our hard work isn't appreciated. Our videos that we work tirelessly at should not be treated as the guinea pigs for the system to learn from if that means it's a cost to us in the form of missed revenue.