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by jimbob45 1682 days ago
Most of the community likely watches videos through Reddit or FB which have built-in downvotes so they won't even notice.

I'm guessing YouTube regrets putting comments and votes on its videos in the first place. Embedding YT videos still gives YT views (unlike, say, reposting a gif to 4chan) and I would think that they'd prefer FB/Reddit would just eat the controversy over curating comments and votes instead of having to subsidize it themselves.