SubJeff on 8/11/2013 at 10:08
Be fair though - some of the top comments are pretty funny.
Muzman on 8/11/2013 at 10:21
Oh sure. Prime crowd-bobbed witticisms is clearly all they want the comments to be good for though (or the only thing they can foresee salvaging from there) with this new system.
I've witnessed a few impassioned defenses of youtube as a medium for involved discussion, against the technical odds. It's a popular plank in arguments attacking people who turn comments off. I think even those few stalwarts are finally going to have to fold now.
demagogue on 8/11/2013 at 10:33
The comments on niche videos that only get a few 100 or 1000 videos are where the comments are worth something, or can be, because then it's usually like-minded people finding each other & reaffirming something beautiful or important to them or whatever... The rest of it, meh, every once in a while there's a comment that breaks out & touches my fluffy.
Vae on 8/11/2013 at 11:43
Quote Posted by dethtoll
<big epileptic fit inducing flashing image here>
I love it when you do that.
faetal on 8/11/2013 at 13:22
OH MY GOD THE VIDEO SITE COMMENT SYSTEM IS BEING INTEGRATED INTO A SOCIAL NETWORK THE HORROR.
Vae on 8/11/2013 at 21:53
Quote Posted by demagogue
...once in a while there's a comment that breaks out & touches my fluffy.
I'd like to see that.
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Queue on 8/11/2013 at 22:14
I'll touch your fluffy.
Bjossi on 8/11/2013 at 23:46
It is going to take a fuckton more signatures to make Google hear the collective voice of their users from that far up their ass. The new system is worse but what we had before was already shoddy at best, I'm not that bothered really.
I'm honestly more worried about the Youtube (or Google?) infrastructure in general and how it hasn't scaled well to the traffic. At this point it is almost completely automated and run by the users themselves, if you have any kind of problem with any of Google's services that isn't solved by the tips given by the automated help guides you're pretty much fucked (unless you "know a guy"). Any retard can flag your video for any reason and the automated system will do its thing, block the video, ban your channel, suspend your account, whatever, without there being any human logic or interference involved. I'm always amazed how many people have the balls to rely entirely on their Youtube channel to provide food on the table each month when the underlying foundation is more unstable than plutonium.
Yakoob on 9/11/2013 at 02:53
Quote Posted by demagogue
The comments on niche videos that only get a few 100 or 1000 videos are where the comments are worth something, or can be, because then it's usually like-minded people finding each other & reaffirming something beautiful or important to them or whatever...
Soooo... kind of like TTLG ;D ?
Pyrian on 9/11/2013 at 06:56
TTLG? "Reaffirming"? :laff:
