Youtube's new comment system

Post » Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:08 am

What the balls?

Seriously, what is this? Anyone seen it? Youtube claims they changed the comment system to "help decrease spam," but omg this system is downright horrendous.

Now the comments will automatically display the highest rated comments at the top, and a menu can allow you to change it to show the newest comments. So far so good right? That's great and all, but HOW DO I UPVOTE AND DOWNVOTE COMMENTS?? They've either disabled that feature entirely or I'm blind, cause I've only seen it available on SOME videos and SOME comments. So when a new video gets posted? How they're gonna decide what the best comments are? Nobody knows! Mystery!!!

Then we have the "in reply to" that lets you click it to show the comment they were replying to. Try clicking it now; Youtube will open up an entirely new tab window to show you the comment, complete with the youtube video playing on the second tab as well as the first.

I'm kind of in disbelief about how bad this system is and I'm posting this partly because I'm certain I must be missing something and there's a fix or something I'm not seeing. What exactly was their goal, because it clearly wasn't pleasing the userbase. Seems more like a desperate attempt to increase the importance and neccesity of Google+.

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Chenae Butler
 
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Post » Thu Nov 07, 2013 7:00 pm

Little late, there is already a thread. But I agree it is a bloody outrage!

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Melissa De Thomasis
 
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Post » Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:00 pm

Also before the "Omg there's a thread identical to this one, why did you post this...."


I'm actually having massive problems with lag and Beth's forums and the other thread wasn't there when I started posting this. (Yes the lag is THAT bad and I've been looking up how the new comments system works in the meantime) Am I the only one having issues with the gamesas forums, as a side note? :tongue:

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