Wasn't the point of the new system to reduce spam and improve comment quality?? I was never a fan of YouTube comments even using a Chrome plugin to hide them fo

Wasn't the point of the new system to reduce spam and improve comment quality?? I was never a fan of YouTube comments even using a Chrome plugin to hide them for a while, but on some videos I found useful stuff. The little value they had before seems to have disappeared now. The main reason from my point of view is that the comments show someone who has shared the video on Google +. They weren't intending to comment, they were sharing the video and now it's forced into the YouTube comment stream.