First, I suck at instruments. So much kudos to anyone who can play a harp. And Emily Hopkins briefly owned the YT one day by attaching a distortion pedal (that's something usually used with electric guitars) to a harp's output. It was... interesting.
Then came news that some griefer had apparently flagged her video for "child endangerment"?!?!?! And YT took it down briefly (video response). It has since been restored.
Frankly, Youtube's enforcement of its terms is just outright WEIRD and inconsistent, and too easily "gamed" by griefers or people with agendas wanting to silence the opposition. Want to call out people who are scamming other people? Get flagged for "hate speech" or "harassment".
And it's also been flooded by mememakers who publish outright crap (such as videos featuring recipes that are impossible to do in life) just so it looks good enough to be shared. It's the equivalent of urban legends that it spawned a new category: debunking videos explaining why some videos are crap and bogus.
Then there are the reaction videos where people post reactions of themselves watching certain videos. This is basically YT version of "selfies", which are so... last century.
Youtube's confusing policies had lead to various alternative platforms such as Twitch and Vimeo and in some way, OnlyFans. Twitch has its own problems such as "hot tub" streams and later... "ear lick streams", when it's supposed to be for gamers. and OnlyFans... Basically known as an adult site without the word "porn" in the title.
Can something be done? Maybe. Hear me out...
Introducing: reputation points. For every X minutes of videos you watch, rate, or otherwise engage with the content (subject to filters to stop abuse / robots) you get reputation points. An account sitting idle does NOT get such points.
If you want to make a complaint, you are asked if you want to reinforce the complaint with your reputation points. Basically, you are putting your own reputation at risk to prove you are SERIOUS about that complaint. It can still be anonymous. I would set the minimum to make a complaint to be at least a typical "week's worth" of points. The points are taken from your account.
The complaint then goes to the review team, who probably will take the ones with reputation points attached more seriously or more expeditiously. At least, that's the idea.
If the complaint was validated, you get your points back, plus maybe a small bonus (10%?) to reward you for helping the community.
If the complaint was dismissed, nothing else happens.
If you consistently make the right complaints (i.e. your complaint was validated by mod team) many times you may be invited to sort through the mod queue and offer some suggestions as a "sorter", like "please prioritize this" or "this is bogus" (thumbs up or down). Obviously your votes will be taken in aggregate with other "sorters". This will help the mod team prioritize the review queue. Not sure how YT can reward you for it, or this will just be a volunteer position. This will last one month or one week, depending on how YT wants to run it.
If your thumbs up/down agrees with most of the team you may be asked to come back.
So what does reputation do for the rest of YT? Good question.
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