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StriderKiwi on 04 March 2019
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Immersiveunreality said:
StriderKiwi said:

Two suggested alternate titles for this thread:

1. Pedophiles are ruining Youtube.
2. Youtube (management) is ruining Youtube.

A simple solution would be to remove the users leaving these comments but I guess that just makes too much damn sense!
As for comments on Youtube in general, the quality of the commenters depends on the video content. Go from the comment section of a rap music video, to a generic #1 trending video, to a gaming walkthrough, to a political video, to a "how to" tech related video, to a comedy gaming channel and you'll the difference for yourself. But ya know, let's generalize literally millions of people across the globe and call for censorship ignoring the irony of us voicing our dissent via comments ourselves!

Ok, mini-rant over.

EDIT: Puggsly's most recent comment wasn't there when I first started this post and I'd argue his comment is a much better and reasonably articulated (and less salty) version of mine so well done Mr. Puggs!

But for those people it is also simple to just make another account and just make the same kind of comments.

Also youtube is so big that it needs to be moderated by bots and those are currently imperfect,manual moderation does exist but it oversees too much and would be too costly to build out to a point it is efficient.

I absolutely agree that it wouldn't entirely fix the issue but at least it would show that Youtube is taking action, and the type that makes the most sense. If they proliferate the idea that activists can point to unsavory commenters on videos, and Youtube will respond by removing the commenting option, it will be further abused and the content creators will suffer for no wrongdoing of their own (the guy who found the pedo comments was salty because he couldn't get his Youtube "career" off the ground even when doing weird videos of harassing random women. Tim Pool did a video on it).

My personal opinion is that this whole "police the internet" idea that's catching on is the new "The US needs foreign intervention to reduce dictatorships and oppression of the foreign populace" and will have roughly the same result. Not even drones bots can solve this problem without innocents being punished.

I realize to some the comment sections of Youtube and other sites are irrelevant or largely frowned upon but there's clearly a modest swath of individuals who want to voice their opinions who don't deserve to be silenced (pedophilia not withstanding), and my argument would be that removing this channel to voice one's opinion will lead to further problems in what is an already divided "society".