Daily Archives: May 21, 2018

The Content Getting Flagged On YouTube

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YouTube has released its first three-monthly “enforcement report“, which shows the number of videos it removed for breaching its community guidelines between October and December 2017. A combination of automated and human flagging allows YouTube to identify controversial content and in Q4 of last year, 8.28 million videos were deleted. While 76 percent of all removals through automated flagging occurred before anybody viewed the content, human flagging is also important and effective. YouTube relies on a huge community of human flaggers around the world and India, the U.S. and Brazil are the top-three nations by human flagging volume.

The following infographic shows the reason videos were flagged by that community. It is important to remember that a single video can be flagged multiple times or for several reasons. Sexual content had 9.1 million flags (30 percent of the total) while spam or misleading videos had 8 million (26.4 percent). Other reasons in the report include hateful/abusive, violent/repulsive or harmful/dangerous acts. Child abuse and the promotion of terrorism were also included with 1.6 million and half a million flags respectively. Flagging a video on YouTube does not immediately result in its removal. Once a trained reviewer confirms a violation of the website’s guidelines, it is then taken down.

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A Day in the Life of a REALTOR®

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In the following brief video from The National Association of REALTORS YouTube channel NAR staff met with members to learn what they do from the beginning of the day to the end in the association’s new Day in the Life program.

Statement from NAR President Elizabeth Mendenhall Regarding Board Vote to Raise Professionalism, Member Dues

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Washington, D.C. May 19, 2018 (nar.realtor) The National Association of Realtors® Board of Directors today voted to raise the bar on professionalism with two amendments to the association’s strict member Code of Ethics. Those amendments include publishing limited information about members who violate the Code of Ethics, such as name, photograph, and a description of the violations, as well as requiring listing brokers to provide written affirmation that a buyer’s offer has been submitted to the seller or landlord or written notification that the seller or landlord has waived the obligation to have the buyer’s offer presented.

The NAR board also raised national membership dues to $150 to fund a broad range of new programming.

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NAR President Elizabeth Mendenhall, a sixth-generation Realtor® from Columbia, Missouri and CEO of RE/MAX Boone Realty issued the following statement after the votes:

Elizabeth Mendenhall

Elizabeth Mendenhall

“Every Realtor® in the country should be proud of the steps taken today to increase professionalism and raise the bar even higher on ourselves.

“We have heard from members for years about strengthening professionalism, and today we took an important step forward. The changes we made to the Code of Ethics will bring invaluable benefit to consumers and allow Realtors® to serve them to the best of our abilities.

“These changes will also lead to greater accountability to one another to ensure a better transaction and consumer experience, and will instill greater trust in Realtors® as important partners in the real estate transaction. This is all about being the best Realtors® that we can be for our clients.

“I’m also grateful to our members and board of directors for being involved in and taking an active role to advance our association. Raising membership dues is never an easy decision, but funding more initiatives and the association for the future will enable us to better serve our members.

“Leading NAR during a period of incredible change has been challenging, but it’s also been an honor. Thank you for owning it and the hardships and opportunities that lay ahead.”

The National Association of Realtors® is America’s largest trade association, representing 1.3 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

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