Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
by cf141q5325 on Friday March 01, 2019 @05:58AM
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> don't we have decades of evidence from online communities showing that?
In my experience the community changes as a whole, but not the individual actors. Once a community tips the member base changes. People displeased with the behavior leave and people attracted to it join.
From usenet to reddit, many communities that tolerate abusive conduct degenerate, as the "bad behaviour" is normalized and becomes accepted.
The fact that you can't create a child-proof YT doesn't mean you shouldn't strive to keep negative behaviour at bay.