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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:57AM (#16754702)
With 50 million channels it's impossible to give quality communication to everyone, so they prioritize based on size/viewership/ad dollars. Top creators have great communications channels - nobody's don't. It's not YouTube's responsibility to stroke everyone's fragile ego.

The problem is people thinking they are more important than they are and then going to extreme lengths to make themselves relevant. That's what mass shooters are, people with egos that don't have the influence to match.

Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by adnzzzzZ on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:03AM (#16754746)
>it's impossible to give quality communication to everyone

This is wrong though. See Valve for a counter example. Steam is also run by algorithms but Valve has managed to give people tons of information on what their algorithms are doing at various points on their store ("this game was shown to you because of X, Y and Z", for instance). The communication problem that YouTube has can be solved by them improving their product and letting creators see more of what their algorithms are doing behind the scenes, like Valve did with Steam.

Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:09PM (#16756087)
You can't compare communicating with users that are buying stuff (Steam customers) and communicating with paid creators (The 50M+ YouTube Channel content creators). It's a completely different set of questions/answers and a completely different relationship.
Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by AstralStorm on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:51PM (#16756534)
You can and he did. The main thing lacking in YouTube other than communication (which is not good - delays are inevitable but compete lack of is not) is actual reason. This is probably because they either cannot offer a real reason (either physically or because it'd expose the incompetence) or do not want it to be known (ulterior motives).