Audio influencers on YouTube hiding comments from public view

People can be horribly mean spirited and are capable of the worst kind of behavior when hiding, like cowards, behind the safety of their computers and phones. I saw an example of this on a Facebook post just a couple days ago where a well known speaker manufacturer innocently posted a picture of their product, on their own profile, inspiring a raving lunatic to come out of the woodwork with some inappropriate remarks of a homophobic nature. Not only should I be allowed to delete this type of comment, there ought to be a button I could press to flush the perpetrator into the local sewer system.

People want the freedoms to behave like scum without recourse. I don’t think so.

@rooze the issue that by flushing that perpetrator you would also be flushing well intended members with valid concerns. If you allow for the deletion of comments then posts will become homogenous and all favorable so what value does that provide when you are only displaying intentionally and artificially skewed commentary?

@carlos269 No. Well intentioned people with valid concerns have a place on public forums, people who spew vile rhetoric or simply can’t or won’t act decently, do not.

I know this is controversial, free speech and all that goes with it, but if I’m investing my time and energy into creating a channel, a community, or whatever it is, and someone just wants to burn it down by being deliberately disrespectful, disruptive, etc, then I should have the right to protect my space and remove them.

Of course if I overreach and start removing comments from people who just don’t agree with me, then I become the problem.

@rooze in the cases that I sided it was simply an “overreach and start removing comments from people who just don’t agree with me”.

@carlos269 The system is in place on YouTube to allow channel owners to remove comments and even ban the commenters if necessary. I’m arguing that the system needs to be there, to protect against people who can’t act decently. If the system is misused by the channel owner then that’s a problem, but it needs to be there.

If you want a quick example of what I’m referring to, go to Facebook and search for ‘Ohm Acoustics’, then look at the comments on their most recent post. As of 10:30 est 7/6/25 the comments are still there. Are you saying, that as the channel/page/group owner, I shouldn’t be allowed to remove that filth from my property? I doubt that’s what you’re saying. It’s an imperfect system, but other than disabling all comments, which defeats the objective of building a community, it’s all there is.