Which uploaders? I spent a while looking through my subscriptions on youtube, and nothing I'd call a creator is below that line, not even this obscure meme channel that got banned once. Just an acquaintance's personal channel and the archives of risc-v presentations, and neither of those channels would be bothered very much by a rogue bot flagging.
> For starters not every video uploaded is by online personalities. A lot of corporate entities use YT. I’ve been on mental health courses that had material on YT too. These videos aren’t going to receive thousands of videos but the content is just as critical for their operations (arguments about whether they should use YT is another topic).
Well those aren't going to be monetized or affected by this kind of thing. And if youtube goes weird they can use any other video host; they don't need youtube or its userbase.
> It’s a nice idea you have but it’s creating an uneven playing field so would have just as many problems as the status quo.
Add those few hundred moderators in addition to whatever the hell exists already and it should improve a lot while having roughly zero downside.
> And you’re still overlooking the injustice that the larger personalities would feel if they have content demonetised or even banned while smaller channels have the same content available.
I don't know what you mean or why that would happen.
> also let’s not forget that your suggestion is easy to weaponise. If you’re a smaller channel competing with a larger one then you can abuse the moderation system by reporting the other channel. Thus any moderation system has the be universal or else it’s going to be abused.
How is that a problem? The moderator will look at it and reject it, and the small channel might get punished if it keeps doing that.
And small channels can already report big channels. I really don't understand this scenario.