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facebook is dial tone. Not very fun but useful when you want to communicate. Youtube is content made largely by their peer group. It's fun and dynamic. The co

facebook is dial tone. Not very fun but useful when you want to communicate. Youtube is content made largely by their peer group. It's fun and dynamic. The comment threads are spicy and you can be a virtual person. Facebook is boring.

sametmax 8y ago
> The comment threads are spicy Ah. Maybe it is specifically for teen. Because every time I scroll down there I instantly regret it. Not only the content of comments have no added value, but it's not funny, or even most of the time remotely intelligible. And I say that why understanding the appeal of the content in video games forum, which on my personal quality scale is already very low.
- wyclif 8y ago
  YouTube comments have very low value. Much lower than Facebook threaded comments, because at least you're friended those people whereas on YT they're all randos trying to get attention.
  - always_good 8y ago
    View the comments of any widespread post on Facebook like the video on a popular page. It's even worse than Youtube comments because it shows that people post the same shit under their real name that their friends/fam can see. They aren't people you know.
- ballenf 8y ago
  Does anyone understand the sorting algorithm used? On the rare occasion I go to yt comments, I’m baffled why garbage throwaway comments with few votes are higher than thoughtful highly voted responses.
  - detaro 8y ago
    As far as I know, it's an activity metric. So negative votes send it upwards too, as do many outraged or joke replies.
welly 8y ago
The comment threads on YouTube are usually inane. If they're not inane, they're racist or homophobic (or both at the same time). I spent some considerable time the other day reporting racist and hateful comments on a single YouTube video. It's not something I would normally spend any time doing but in this instance it was time well spent. I've limited my exposure to comment sections on websites to HN only. It's the only place I've found that is reliable to not be full of hate and well moderated. I only watch YouTube videos through DDG these days.

sametmax 8y ago

> The comment threads are spicy Ah. Maybe it is specifically for teen. Because every time I scroll down there I instantly regret it. Not only the content of comments have no added value, but it's not funny, or even most of the time remotely intelligible. And I say that why understanding the appeal of the content in video games forum, which on my personal quality scale is already very low.

wyclif 8y ago
YouTube comments have very low value. Much lower than Facebook threaded comments, because at least you're friended those people whereas on YT they're all randos trying to get attention.
- always_good 8y ago
  View the comments of any widespread post on Facebook like the video on a popular page. It's even worse than Youtube comments because it shows that people post the same shit under their real name that their friends/fam can see. They aren't people you know.
ballenf 8y ago
Does anyone understand the sorting algorithm used? On the rare occasion I go to yt comments, I’m baffled why garbage throwaway comments with few votes are higher than thoughtful highly voted responses.
- detaro 8y ago
  As far as I know, it's an activity metric. So negative votes send it upwards too, as do many outraged or joke replies.

welly 8y ago

The comment threads on YouTube are usually inane. If they're not inane, they're racist or homophobic (or both at the same time). I spent some considerable time the other day reporting racist and hateful comments on a single YouTube video. It's not something I would normally spend any time doing but in this instance it was time well spent. I've limited my exposure to comment sections on websites to HN only. It's the only place I've found that is reliable to not be full of hate and well moderated. I only watch YouTube videos through DDG these days.