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0 pointsanthonygd4y ago0 comments

> Please educate yourself on the scale of youtube.

Please be less smug.

YouTube has no right or requirement to operate at that scale. They've consciously decided to scale past what they're able to manage well. This is no different than a developer who produces terrible non-functional code but defends it to their boss by pointing out the line count is really high.

I'd be impressed by their scale only if they managed to maintain some level of quality also.

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seaman19214y ago

> YouTube has no right or requirement to operate at that scale.

so only you can be smug, eh ?

> They've consciously decided to scale past what they're able to manage well.

That is not true. They are doing quite well considering the overall scale.

> I'd be impressed by their scale only if they managed to maintain some level of quality also.

So you assess quality by random one-off/anecdotal articles always highlighting the negative ? How do you know what their quality is when you can never know the number of abusive videos correctly blocked ?

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