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As best as I can tell, there's no way to find your previous comments, OR to tell if you've received a reply. It's a commenting system without the pretty standa

As best as I can tell, there's no way to find your previous comments, OR to tell if you've received a reply. It's a commenting system without the pretty standard minimum feature set pretty much every other commenting system has.

kevin_thibedeau 10y ago
> OR to tell if you've received a reply. Most likely to contain flame wars. We're dealing with base level humanity on YouTube. You have to enact these sort of constraints to keep things tolerable.
- mapt 10y ago
  That may be the goal, but when you're trying to convince people to join your social network, this is the sort of thing that stops them.
- will_hughes 10y ago
  I know Youtube Comments are generally the worst - but when some content creator says "Hey, leave a comment below if you have questions" - and you do leave a comment, then you've got no way of knowing whether they've replied. It seems like they may as well just remove commenting, at that point.
- PavlovsCat 10y ago
  Except this does much less to curtail flamewars (what would not be able to find one's own old reply do for that?) than it does to curtail exchange of thoughts and growth. Also, you do get notifications for replies, though not a great overview of them. For flaming, that's fine and more than enough. It's just useless for actually discussing anything.
- xg15 10y ago
  If you wanted to contain flame wars, wouldn't the very first step be not to prioritize controversial comments in the ranking algorithm? (as mentioned above in this thread) Currently, the system rather seems to encourage flame wars then to prevent them. You might not find the comment that you were planning to reply - but you'll always find some comment that you can spray fresh vitriol on. Finally, as a constraint I find the design odd - it doesn't actually prevent you from doing anything, it just makes an arbitrary set of actions unnecessarily hard.
sinxoveretothex 10y ago
About comment history, it seems that it existed but got removed (why, I have no idea EDIT: kevin_thibedeau makes a good point on that topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcH9VR96Z1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcH9VR96Z1M As for receiving a reply, I know that you get a notification, at least if people use your +name in their comment, but it isn't easy to manage given the lack of history, as you pointed out.
MichaelMoser123 10y ago
another thing is that on youtube the videos often get removed because copyright owners complain/object - if that happens then all the comments also get removed. Why should one bother to comment if the comment just gets deleted like this? as i see it: Youtube comments are not intended to be something that adds value to the video, it is supposed to be a feedback mechanism for the one who posted the video
PavlovsCat 10y ago
> As best as I can tell, there's no way to find your previous comments, OR to tell if you've received a reply. Yeah. Compared to a forum written in, say, 1995, it's kind of a joke.

kevin_thibedeau 10y ago

> OR to tell if you've received a reply. Most likely to contain flame wars. We're dealing with base level humanity on YouTube. You have to enact these sort of constraints to keep things tolerable.

mapt 10y ago
That may be the goal, but when you're trying to convince people to join your social network, this is the sort of thing that stops them.
will_hughes 10y ago
I know Youtube Comments are generally the worst - but when some content creator says "Hey, leave a comment below if you have questions" - and you do leave a comment, then you've got no way of knowing whether they've replied. It seems like they may as well just remove commenting, at that point.
PavlovsCat 10y ago
Except this does much less to curtail flamewars (what would not be able to find one's own old reply do for that?) than it does to curtail exchange of thoughts and growth. Also, you do get notifications for replies, though not a great overview of them. For flaming, that's fine and more than enough. It's just useless for actually discussing anything.
xg15 10y ago
If you wanted to contain flame wars, wouldn't the very first step be not to prioritize controversial comments in the ranking algorithm? (as mentioned above in this thread) Currently, the system rather seems to encourage flame wars then to prevent them. You might not find the comment that you were planning to reply - but you'll always find some comment that you can spray fresh vitriol on. Finally, as a constraint I find the design odd - it doesn't actually prevent you from doing anything, it just makes an arbitrary set of actions unnecessarily hard.

sinxoveretothex 10y ago

About comment history, it seems that it existed but got removed (why, I have no idea EDIT: kevin_thibedeau makes a good point on that topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcH9VR96Z1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcH9VR96Z1M As for receiving a reply, I know that you get a notification, at least if people use your +name in their comment, but it isn't easy to manage given the lack of history, as you pointed out.

MichaelMoser123 10y ago

another thing is that on youtube the videos often get removed because copyright owners complain/object - if that happens then all the comments also get removed. Why should one bother to comment if the comment just gets deleted like this? as i see it: Youtube comments are not intended to be something that adds value to the video, it is supposed to be a feedback mechanism for the one who posted the video

PavlovsCat 10y ago

> As best as I can tell, there's no way to find your previous comments, OR to tell if you've received a reply. Yeah. Compared to a forum written in, say, 1995, it's kind of a joke.