I mean ultimately the biggest problem isn't even voting or anything. It's that Youtube doesn't care about giving you "quality" it cares about keeping you on the platform so it can keep feeding you ads. At the end of the day, as long as you keep watching Youtube is happy.

This is similar to the reason I stopped reading Quora posts because they're some of the most awful pieces of freelance writing that has nothing to do with "information transferring" and everything to do with "keeping you reading". Feels like such a weird site.

But ultimately the trick is you have to break the cycle of watching or staying on Youtube when you get bad content... at that point then Youtube has to change so you keep coming back to watch quality recommendations instead of just "what's popular"

Personally I mostly only will click on people I'm already subscribed to, because so much is just about "Watch time", and like I said above, I only really value "information transfer".