I don't thinks it's a matter of the superior people vs the rabble. I'm sure a forum of 100 random YouTube commenters would be infinitely better than the YouTube

I don't thinks it's a matter of the superior people vs the rabble. I'm sure a forum of 100 random YouTube commenters would be infinitely better than the YouTube comments section. It's a broken windows problem -- you see a forum where it's all lolcatting and meme-dropping then you either ignore them or join in -- at some point, there's no fixing a broken forum.