I didn't talk about trenches, I merely used the term "turf" which is less reminiscent of a shooting war ;)
I'm not talking about youtube at all, I'm talking about Google Plus.
Why would I be interested in community control at minds ? It exists, but telling the truth, I never had any trouble circumventing control, also I have my own methods to control the people I deal or refuse to deal with. As to minds, it could be better - it's any bit as much in beta as this is.
However, the things you guys are complaining about are happening here and nowhere else.
What if you just blocked people like grumpycat ? Wait...

It's not me having trouble here so far and I think I might be able to circumnavigate it, but how would I know ? I could also imagine eventually feeling pressure here because the place is what it is.

All networks have to shake out twists, Google Plus had them and by now they managed to have a platform that is configurable to a high degree and entirely allows free movement and speech sufficiently to be entirely different from facebook, for those who can handle it (this is always important to understand, you will find it's the same everywhere - no matter who controls or doesn't control whatever)

Google uses our content while we use Google to spread it, which is obviously something nobody else can do. Upon googling your alias, @nonameslefttouse, I find that you joined quite a few networks that I never cared to join. Remarkable. Did it help ?
Art is actually one of the things most easy to market on social media, I'll be glad to help.

They stopped shooting rockets outside, it's past two in the night.
Excuse me till next evening or so.