People Are Ruining YouTube

[Mr Puggsly]

haxxiy said:

Mr Puggsly said:

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.

 

Most people posting comments are not trolls, you're just hyper focused on a vocal minority. If that was the case everybody on YouTube would just disable comments.

I do notice news websites and videos have exceptionally "toxic" posters. But stuff like that tends to bring the worst out of people in general. Our media actually picks sides on how it wants to tell the news so its become a team sport.