Youtube to deter trolls with updated comments options

[terry78]

http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...mments-trolls-moderation-google?commentpage=1


I confess that was one of the things people went to Youtube for, to argue about politics on a cat video.

 

[Teelie]

They want you to use Google+ so desperately they've tied people into using it to comment on YouTube. It might reduce the trolling but it's not going to stop it.

 

[Senator Pleasury]

Well, I go to youtube for the videos. There's that.

 

[the last son]

I wish they would stop changing stuff.

 

[Pink Ranger]

This is all Obama's fault!

 

[bullets]

Is there really a point to this. You can hide comments you don't like and even flag a person.

 

[Manic]

"YouTube users will also be able to start conversations under videos that are only viewable by people in their Circles on the Google+ social network"

Sounds like "invisible comments that nobody will ever see" to me. Because who the hell uses Google+? I've got like 5 people in my Circles that I put there on that one day I tried out Google+.

 

[bullets]

Nobody uses Google plus and I hate seeing it because somehow my ex girlfriend remains connected on there.

 

[Teelie]

Google+ is being tied into all of the Google services. It's a blatant attempt to become the next Facebook, even though I think it's going to fail and Google will eventually just squash it, like they have so many other projects that went nowhere.

 

[Hotwire]

They want you to use Google+ so desperately they've tied people into using it to comment on YouTube. It might reduce the trolling but it's not going to stop it.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Sounds like "invisible comments that nobody will ever see" to me. Because who the hell uses Google+? I've got like 5 people in my Circles that I put there on that one day I tried out Google+.

A million souls crying out and no one hearing them. Isn't that basically twitter

 

[Manic]

A million souls crying out and no one hearing them. Isn't that basically twitter

Yeah, except people actually notice when someone famous says something remarkably stupid on Twitter. The Dalai Lama could say "You know, Hitler and Pol Pot had the right idea" on Google+, and nobody would ever know.

 

[terry78]

Twitter and Instagram are more for the kids anyway. LinkedIn is for the mature gentleman.

 

[Mike_D202]

Nothing like trying to make a service popular by forcing people to use it. Go away Google+

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Twitter and Instagram are more for the kids anyway. LinkedIn is for the mature gentleman.

I wouldn't compare those two to Linkedin considering the former two are for fun and the latter is heavily career-oriented.

 

[KevanG]

The only time I've ever used Google+ was when a youtuber I watch need some subscribers to validate his account with subs. Beyond that I don't think I've ever used it.

 

[Lencho01]

I tried leaving a comment on a random video the other day, but couldn't. It said I had to sign in and I was confused since I already was. Then, I saw they were trying to force me to make a Google+ account connected to my YouTube one.

I just have Google+ in connection to the account I made for my Android phone. Other than that, I don't use it.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Is there really a point to this. You can hide comments you don't like and even flag a person.

I think this is in response to not only continuously free-falling Google+ use (that few people used in the first place), but also because of all the increasing negative press of Youtube comments, like the interracial commercial video that made waves throughout the interntet (despite having a thousand more and arguably worse examples).

I was watching a Wrestling video once of a match from Wrestlemania 23, which was in Detroit. Some poster commented saying "This isn't Detroit. Where are all the dead black people (he used a different term for black people)?" Keep in mind the video had no black people in it.

 

[KevanG]

I remember that cheerios commercial. I thought it was cute.

 

[Lencho01]

There's also those spam posts about "making easy money from your home" or watching a movie online when only the trailer has just been released.

 

[Victarion]

There's easier places to troll than Youtube.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

All I want is to be able to find my own comment in the thousands of follow up comments to see if anybody replied. Not everyone uses the reply button.

 

[BrollySupersj]

It's because of stupid **** like this that I can't rate and review apps. I wanna write down that AIM mobile is the worst most dysfunctioning app in existence. But NOPE. Gotta have Google+.

 

[bullets]

I think this is in response to not only continuously free-falling Google+ use (that few people used in the first place), but also because of all the increasing negative press of Youtube comments, like the interracial commercial video that made waves throughout the interntet (despite having a thousand more and arguably worse examples).

I was watching a Wrestling video once of a match from Wrestlemania 23, which was in Detroit. Some poster commented saying "This isn't Detroit. Where are all the dead black people (he used a different term for black people)?" Keep in mind the video had no black people in it.

Well I didn't consider google plus because I never use it. I do agree something should be done about 90 percent of the comments on YouTube. I say suspend accounts after so many violations.