There aren't plenty of ways of quickly figuring out if a video is bad. It's clear that people is this discussion are focused on different types of videos, and

There aren't plenty of ways of quickly figuring out if a video is bad. It's clear that people is this discussion are focused on different types of videos, and the varied responses to the removal of downvotes reflect this. I'm focused on board game videos, which are the only videos I watch. A large number of downvotes on a board game video indicate that the video includes major rules mistakes. So when I see many downvotes, I simply play another video. I'm not going to bother performing a thorough investigation of the quality of one board game video that has a lot of downvotes.