I think you're right, YouTube will probably disable comments by default in the future as well. > The harm that you can commit through paragraphs of text is so

I think you're right, YouTube will probably disable comments by default in the future as well. > The harm that you can commit through paragraphs of text is so much more than you can in a single bit. That's whataboutism. It's an important topic as well, but not what's being discussed. I'm not sure why you raise elections, but the premise ("if the concern isn't the harm of the downvote") is antithetical to the discussion (which is concerning the harm of targeted downvote campaigns).