> No doubt that works well in some cases, but the average YouTube video is not such a forum. Yes, and that's the mistake that Google is making: thinking the pr

> No doubt that works well in some cases, but the average YouTube video is not such a forum. Yes, and that's the mistake that Google is making: thinking the problem is procedural ("Just have people log in with their real name") instead of social. I'm not sure what the best solution is but their current one is obviously wrong. Maybe they could start by doing a better job at sorting/upvoting/downvoting so that only the best comments get shown on the front page and not the most recent ones.