[blueboo]

For those like you who are gobsmacked, wondering what you’re missing, here it is:

The scale of YouTube has counterintuitive implications.

The harassment, deceptive self-promotion and trolling misuse of this feature was at such a scale that this feature was doing real harm that wasn’t effectively contained.

This is an issue Youtube has struggled with for years.

So, a feature that causes real harm, and brings real good, and at length they found no solution to the harm: the feature is quite reasonably axed.

And people who rely on the good faith usage of that abusable feature are justifiably disappointed...but we know why they did it.