review of clickz blog

While looking at news on clickz, I came across another youtube blog that is semi related to another youtube blog of mine. The title is "Chasing the youtube Scammers". This blog focuses on how scammers essentially trick the voting system to inflate the popularity and add such a high rating to their videos. The goal of attaining such a high rating is usually to drive visitors to adware or malware sites. An associate professor at Harvard mentions that this scamming is likely the reason that executives at youtube are hesitant to place ads on their site. This presents a fairly large road block. If youtube was able to place ads on their videos, it would likely be a very profitable venture. I think youtube is taking a step in the right direction by facilitating efforts to remove videos that are falsely represented by their ratings. Maybe the next step should be to redesign the voting system to block links that are created to inflate ratings on social sites.