4 ms·
To be fair, it's not like YouTube comments were ever working well.
by alwaysdoit 11y ago
To be fair, it's not like YouTube comments were ever working well.
- lmm 11y agoThey were never great but they were better before.
- rudolf0 11y agoIf by "before" you mean 2008, then yes, arguably. Starting around 2009 I've started using various browser extensions to hide the comments, and I've never been happier.
- mahouse 11y agoI don't understand. Can't you just... not read them?
- javajosh 11y agoThat kind of software is easier to install, but less consistent.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- piyush_soni 11y agoNo. To sift through the comments you want to read, you need to at least read a few words/sentences of even the unwanted ones - that wastes time and makes us slow.
- aswanson 11y agoHilarious. I recall saying to myself YouTube won over Google video because they supported comments early on. They really understand social. Laughing at myself...
- dredmorbius 11y agoAs I noted at the time, fixing a roiling cesspit by draining it into the freshwater supply is hardly a solution. YT comments should have been hauled out and shot. Not jackboot-forced onto other platforms as well.
- brownbat 11y agoYeah, there was a project comparing YT comments with Metafilter comments at one point: http://comments.thatsaspicymeatball.com/ http://comments.thatsaspicymeatball.com/ Looks like the latest comments are from Feb 2015, sad that it's not still live. Not a terrible quality snapshot though.
- dredmorbius 11y agoMetafilter's highly underappreciated. Sometimes I think that's a good thing.
- InclinedPlane 11y agoThere are two types of YouTube comments. There are comments from random people on very popular videos. Those are often an excuse for people to say something with a big audience, and those comments have usually been of low quality. The other type of comment is when there's a small community around some particular niche subject or particular content creator. And there the quality of the comments can actually be pretty decent, because it's not just drive-by comments from random folks. Unfortunately, YouTube's comments changes have generally targeted marginal improvements on the quality of the first kind of comments to the detriment of the second kind.