Quote from: KonstantinosM on March 30, 2015, 07:38:38 AM

YouTube is a huge mixed bag. There are tons of shit that I hate about it. The comment sections (no way to filter out the trolls). Postcounts, rankings, any system by which to roughly kick out all the trolls from the comments that you read.

The rating system is binary, more fit for machines than humans. No way to make groups, so that people in a group can do their own rating.

Totally sells it's content creator's butt-cheeks to corporations in any case of dispute (guilty until proven innocent if you're not a corporation) with the copyright system.
However it is the king.

People can (and some do) use torrents as well to spread their video clips. The number however is paltry because there is no platform.

Torrents are seen by the corporations and the authorities as evil, child-killing, pirating technology so perhaps that witch-hunt is partly to blame. Or perhaps the lack of systems to fund making the videos due to difficulties in receiving funds from the audience.

Agreed on the troll issue but right now I don't see any way to filter them out
Agreed on the rating system - it's useless. I remember couple years back that youtube had a star rating that was visible before you clicked the video but for some reason it had been changed.
Agreed on the copyright system but Youtube is the biggest video platform so they can allow themselves to be ignorant on that matter.

In the end it all comes down to this: People must start to use other video platforms so that there will be more competition, so youtube can no longer be ignorant. But the problem is also in Youtubers and crators - most of them are earning money on youtube which they cannot do on other platforms, so they got no interest in changing platforms, and that keeps viewers to stay with youtube.