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What kills YouTube comments is the same thing that kills Ars comments, along with pretty much every blog ever; there's no threading and no peer moderation or ra
by WiseWeasel 14y ago
What kills YouTube comments is the same thing that kills Ars comments, along with pretty much every blog ever; there's no threading and no peer moderation or ranking. No one wants to sort through a river of random comments.
- hfs 14y ago>no peer moderation or ranking It seems like enough thumbs down or enough spam flaggings take care of moderation, and thumbs up takes care of at least two rankings.
- CamperBob2 14y agoYet for some reason this model works well on Fark (and, I agree, nowhere else.)
- groby_b 14y agoThe entire point of Fark is to make off-topic, off-color remarks. So yes, for that, it works well :)
- mey 14y agoThis also explains how Reddit works so well
- ramblerman 14y agoreddit has peer moderation and ranking. Which is why it works well, it's nothing like flat fark or youtube comments
- twelvechairs 14y agoI came here to say exactly the same thing...