| > Hopefully the community will come together and figure out a good solution for the mess that YT is creating. If youtube won't host the information, it becomes a search problem: who has voted on this link? How have they voted? Certainly the easiest path would be to create a new centralized site that hosts all these votes. Then create an extension to add these downvotes back in. Ideally you'd probably want to also have folks be willing to track views too, since downvotes is pretty much a consideration of ratios; 22 downvotes doesn't sound like a lot if there's a million views but it's a lot if there's 100 views. So now we have an extension that tracks every youtube video you view and submits it to some centralized site, along with upvote/downvotes. It'd be excellent to try to evolve a more distributed p2p architecture for doing this, but short of recording it on a blockchain- and a roll-up side-chain probably won't help- there's not a lot of good ways to do this. An intermediary step would be to have folks create micro-pages that record their votes. Then we can search "link:https://youtube.com/1a2s3d4f" to use google to go find all the votes people have created. It's sad & bitter Youtube is de-democratizing this way, is serving their customers & not the audience, but it does interestingly highlight what a hard problem it is to create real demoncratic systems online. |