People Are Ruining YouTube

[haxxiy]

Mr Puggsly said:

haxxiy said:
Comments on YouTube and news websites should be banned and forgotten.

It might seem ironic to say such a thing in an online forum, but user-generated content in the internet is very often an abysmal failure.

If some channels are having a significant problem with pedo viewers or inappropriate comments, then it seems like the easiest solution is allowing the creator to limit who can post or comments have to be approved. I'm not sure if that feature exist on YouTube but its not a new idea.

This isn't a problem for all videos on YouTube.

True enough. There are plenty of videos where the viewers behave well, but sadly those seem to be a minority. The demographics of the internet as a whole might be different, more older and female nowadays, but most of people who comment are still young males spreading memes, edginess and fake news. One merely needs to see which are the most popular YouTube channels to have an idea of the kind of people who are more likely to engage in user-generated content.