Comments on: YouTube comments suck, someone should fix that.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:23:30 +0000

I’ve always thought the comment system used by Slashdot is pretty good. It’s vote based, but you get votes to cast with karma. The conversations are threaded. And they are categorized as being funny or interesting. Of course there are still trolls, but those are quickly weeded out.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:05:55 +0000

jdonner, I disagree. If you made a good comment like you’re describing on a place like reddit then people would upvote you even if they disagreed. “Votes” are to encourage conversation, not to decide if a comment is good or not.

By: jdonner

jdonner — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:22:53 +0000

A voting system is useless. I can post a comment on a game video by saying that a PC is better for gaming than a console and back it up with arguments, link and other sources and I would still be voted out.

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#4: Better YouTube Conversation « Shane's blog — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:22:36 +0000

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By: Oldfart

Oldfart — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:30:47 +0000

Having an option that blocks comments from individuals below age 20 would be nice.

It would be interesting to see a statistic that illustrates the correlation between retardedness and the age of youtube commenters.

After all, retarded comments from adults are still bearable. ITS THE GODDAMNED PUNKS. ALWAYS. THOSE GODDAMNED FUCKING RASCAL SHOULD REALLY GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY YOUTUBE COMMENT LAWN.

By: ncwall

ncwall — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:07:25 +0000

Also, Yahoo Answer has the same issue.

By: ncwall

ncwall — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:00:34 +0000

Youtube’s comments, it’s dirty. One reason is that YouTube is big. When you say videos, chances are you’ll think of YouTube. How did YouTube get that popular? I don’t know, but still, it’s big, you don’t hear kids talking about Veoh than Youtube, and on Safari’s default bookmark, it includes YouTube. Newgrounds, it’s not bigger than YouTube, and they have stupid users; but it’s small, making the deviants small enough for the moderators and users to take action. Who thought popularity is better? This is one of the factors of these youtube comments, the deviants are huge, the moderators can’t take them all down. But there are still more factors that can explain youtube comments.

There’s a way to disable youtube comments. Just open up a page that contains a video, scroll down to the Text comments (x), click on options, check the Hide all comments option, and save. It’s a good solution to this issue. Mixing YouTube and its comment is like mixing freshwater with mud.