There's a tiny but vocal and avid percentage of YouTube users who comment extensively and get all up in the rating system, go around downvoting videos they don't agree with without watching them and getting in nasty arguments. There's a much larger segment that use the site less intensively, but just want to watch stuff without being exposed to horrifying arguments or being 'policed' by the fringe who get obsessive about downvoting things they don't like. Taking a step like this to limit the influence of the intense fringe on the larger but less intense majority of the site's users is a positive move, in my opinion. If weirdo, obsessive, hateful people who want to leave awful comments feel 'entitled' to pollute a popular site with their garbage, they can start their own, unpopular site to whine endlessly in the comments about how unfair that is. Even if the 95% of YouTube users who are 'less engaged' (meaning less likely to have sixteen comment threads running under various videos on any given day, less likely to downvote videos they don't even watch based on the expected content, etc.) use the site less on an individual basis, their much greater numbers mean they make up a far greater amount of the site's revenue. Not angering them IS more important, even if they are less likely to start an online sobfest campaign over it. Also, they and the content they both watch and create are probably more appealing to advertisers.
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