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Audio influencers on YouTube hiding comments from public view

The @AudiophileJunkie, @MillerscarbonsTheAudioFiles, and other wanna be audio influencers on YouTube have now taken to the practice of hiding comments made, on videos posted by them, from public view. These non-offensive and non rules violating comments are not visible to the viewers. This is very troublesome as this makes commentary and the value of displayed comments of little value. If the only comments left are all in alignment with narrative that the video poster is stating then why bother having a comments section? The world as we know it is incrementally veering away from the freedoms of expression that we once had and enjoyed. When you exercise censorship on dissenting opinions, your suppression and restrictions artificially steer the narrative to a police state style herd mentally. Very disappointed to see the deliberate erosion of freedom of speech and subversion of opinions & free commentary. Another step in the wrong direction. Those who want to be puppet masters should first take notice of the strings on their back.

carlos269
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ibmjunkman
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Off topic question. Why is that video mentioned by foggyus91 so bright? I see this on some YT videos.

rsf507
2,426 posts
 

Can those "influencers" you guys are talking about please post a list of user names? That would be most welcome.

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hilde45
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Miller Carbon was on this site and posted prolifically.

He seemed to know a lot, but he put people down, and was constantly bragging.

Now he's on youtube hiding people's comments, eh? What a narcissistic pustule.

roadcykler
225 posts
 

IMO, anyone with "influencer" in their job title isn't getting any views or listens from me. Peddle your made up BS somewhere else.

kerrybh
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@hilde45 exactly. MC claimed to know a lot, maybe he did, but he went out of his way to ridicule people. He made a full-time job out of being unpleasant. And he was good at his job.

@carlos269  I think you hit the nail on the head. Fine for these Youtubers to make money, but if they are going to opine about the relative merits of products, they owe it to their audience to fully disclose every consideration, payment, advertisement, long-term loan, or other financial consideration provided by the manufacturer. I don’t know of many of them that do that. 

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