[jod67]

The solution is simple - remove the public view counts. People (producers and consumers) are unnecessarily over influenced by it. There is a huge global population of semi literate people on the net today that have no concept of how to parse all the information they are seeing. The numbers are their guide posts. They learn quickly how to pander because the waste majority of content is pandering to the lowest common denominator.

[quadrangle]

That's not a solution as long as "popular" videos still get higher ranking in searches.