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Internet yesterday: "YouTube comments are the cesspool of the internet, and you will lose brain cells by reading them" Internet today: "Anonymous and uncenso

Internet yesterday: "YouTube comments are the cesspool of the internet, and you will lose brain cells by reading them" Internet today: "Anonymous and uncensored YouTube comments are the only thing standing between us and a dystopian surveillance state overseen by Google+" I understand there are there are tradeoffs, but so much of the hate seems to be arbitrary anti-Google ranting.

6d0debc071 13y ago
There are other options. Maybe you didn't meant to come off this way but that seems a bit like a strawman.
dasil003 13y ago
Or there's always the possibility that those are two sets of people you're conflating.
pohl 13y ago
Internet every day: "Here's a comment from Bob, and another from Alice. I'm going to ignore that they're not the same person and pretend that if you smash them together like play-doh you get a single hypocrite."
parennoob 13y ago
* anti-Google+ ranting is what you meant I think :) It is a bit amusing how Google+ can do no right. From my point of view, everyone I know uses Facebook and no one uses Google+, so that's the only reason this feature doesn't serve me at all.
- psbp 13y ago
  Does everyone really have such a hard time creating multiple google accounts? Google makes this as accessible as possible, or maybe people don't like Google+ for some other reason? I don't really get it either.
  - sp332 13y ago
    I'm not allowed to name any of my G+ accounts "sep332". Which sucks because that is my primary online identity.
    - telcodud 13y ago
      Have you tried creating a G+ Page?
    - Shooti 13y ago
      That's only if you base the Youtube channel on a G+ profile, if you base it on a G+ Page you can name it anything you like: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2848323 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2848323
      - parennoob 13y ago
        Why should he be forced to create a "Page" rather than a normal "Profile"? No service should lay down rules on what you want your username to be. That's only one of the ways Google+ fails abysmally, as skud and other people have demonstrated.
correctifier 13y ago
It could be that YouTube videos are the cesspool of the internet and that adding google+ to them isn't a solution to this, just an excuse to try and increase the adoption of google+. There isn't anything wrong with thinking that YouTube comments are often terrible while also disliking that google is trying to push their own social integration into all of the their services.

6d0debc071 13y ago

There are other options. Maybe you didn't meant to come off this way but that seems a bit like a strawman.

dasil003 13y ago

Or there's always the possibility that those are two sets of people you're conflating.

pohl 13y ago

Internet every day: "Here's a comment from Bob, and another from Alice. I'm going to ignore that they're not the same person and pretend that if you smash them together like play-doh you get a single hypocrite."

parennoob 13y ago

* anti-Google+ ranting is what you meant I think :) It is a bit amusing how Google+ can do no right. From my point of view, everyone I know uses Facebook and no one uses Google+, so that's the only reason this feature doesn't serve me at all.

psbp 13y ago
Does everyone really have such a hard time creating multiple google accounts? Google makes this as accessible as possible, or maybe people don't like Google+ for some other reason? I don't really get it either.
- sp332 13y ago
  I'm not allowed to name any of my G+ accounts "sep332". Which sucks because that is my primary online identity.
  - telcodud 13y ago
    Have you tried creating a G+ Page?
  - Shooti 13y ago
    That's only if you base the Youtube channel on a G+ profile, if you base it on a G+ Page you can name it anything you like: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2848323 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2848323
    - parennoob 13y ago
      Why should he be forced to create a "Page" rather than a normal "Profile"? No service should lay down rules on what you want your username to be. That's only one of the ways Google+ fails abysmally, as skud and other people have demonstrated.

correctifier 13y ago

It could be that YouTube videos are the cesspool of the internet and that adding google+ to them isn't a solution to this, just an excuse to try and increase the adoption of google+. There isn't anything wrong with thinking that YouTube comments are often terrible while also disliking that google is trying to push their own social integration into all of the their services.