Search are rapidly trash, while recommendation required some effort on my part to cultivate or otherwise trash might sneak in. It's certainly the golden age of

Search are rapidly trash, while recommendation required some effort on my part to cultivate or otherwise trash might sneak in. It's certainly the golden age of youtube, with high quality creators, I learned a lot of interesting stuff that I probably otherwise wouldn't, though it's hard to know because I would have read about these things in magazines. But there are some issues in the space. For example, my attempt to report low quality autogenerated nonsense from a bot has so far been unsuccessful because of a combination of being too small to notice and successful evasion tactics. Creators need sponsors, some of which are questionable, to pay the bills and youtube continues to be an unstable income stream. Moderation is absolutely necessary to maintain information quality, but youtube moderation is not very transparent and they are unaccountable if creators are wrongfully banned. It's also why my attempt to report a bot go nowhere.