Re: The Member's Guide to Topiclessness
Posted by: Zowayix
Date: 2013-11-07 01:30:22
So, because being passive-aggressive always accomplishes anything at all, I will nitpick Google's post about the new crap:
Comments you care about show first. Youll see comments at the top of the list from people in your Google+ Circles, from creators, and from popular personalities. Comments with many likes and replies will rank highly as well. Choose Newest First to see the most recent comments instead. Replies are threaded (like Gmail) so you can easily follow conversations.
So now instead of just fucking showing the comments in temporal order, they will be rearranged all over the fucking place. Yay. Clearly this will end well.
Comment moderation. You can report any comment for spam or abuse. If you're a creator, you can also use comment moderation tools for comments on your videos or your channels.
Ah yes, that feature that totally wasn't there before. And that totally didn't get abused by 12 year olds of the mindset "Someone disagrees with me? SPAM!"
Choose who can see your comment. By default, your comment will be public on YouTube. You can also have a more private discussion by sharing your comment just to specific people or Google+ circles. Click Edit to enter the people and circles you want. On mobile apps, tap the field that shows the visibility of your post.
Share your comment in more places. You can also share your comment as a post on Google+. Only the people you choose will be able to see the comment on Google+. It will also be visible to them on places such as the Google+ profile or page connected to your channel. If you don't want to share your comment on Google+, just uncheck Also share on Google+ below your comment before posting.
This isn't a desperate attempt to get people to actually join Google+. Clearly.
Reply to comments. Click Reply beneath a comment to respond to that comment. All replies to a comment are threaded beneath the original comment. They will be visible to the same people and in the same places as the original comment.
Since the fuck when is this new?
Use rich text. You can add style to your comment with special tags: *bold* bold; _italics_ italics; -strikethrough- strikethrough
I am surely unable to imagine this being spammed by teenage girls who think they're being cute by excessively using font styles where it doesn't make sense. They absolutely don't do that on all those other social networking sites that have styled text, or do the same thing with emoticons for sites that have those.
Add URLs. You can add a URL to your comment. It will show as a link. YouTube video URLs will show in the comment as a link using the title of the video.
Hey guys, check out my site! <999 thumbs up from other bots>
Notifications. Get notified of replies to your comments with Google notifications, both on your computer and on your mobile devices (you can control this in the notification settings for the Google+ profile or Google+ page connected to your YouTube channel). You can also mention people in your comments to invite them to join the discussion.
Well this seems like an alright idea actually, because currently having to make multiple clicks just to find the almost hidden Inbox page to see who's replied to stuff or whatever is a pain in the ass. I hope they've fired the designer behind that part by now and got a new o-What's this other thing which should have been a separate dot point?
You can also mention people in your comments to invite them to join the discussion.
I have received a vision of the immediate future.
Thousands of comments on sub-10 second videos. All of them completely blank except for people tagging their friend(s). Maybe a little sentence among the lines of "LOL THIS IS SO YOU XDDDDDDDDD" if you're lucky. You want to find some reasonable discussion, but you cannot. You even find yourself missing the old community on YouTube which seems to have a more than double-digit IQ by comparison, but alas, they are long gone. There is no hope.
Fuck you, Google. Fuck you. Seriously. This and the fucking absurd technical issues with both the Flash and HTML5 players, the idiocy of showing what is blatantly a mobile version of a website to desktops. Fucking everything. The only reason I will ever use your site again is because no other video site seems to actually have any content on it. Hopefully you'll piss off everyone enough that they'll start jumping ship. And then I will too.
Edit: So I tried the new YouTube for a bit, and… wow. It's like they've found a way to make the stupid people even more prevalent. And it doesn't appear there's any thumbing system of any kind (double edit: That was just the one video. Never mind (Triple edit: Maybe they did change it, I've just watched a video with both thumbable comments and not thumbable. Yes, I will blame YouTube for being confusing)). At least I was wrong about the order, because there's an option to sort by newest first. Hopefully it's not like Facebook where it resets itself to idiot sorting every time you visit and then it doesn't work anyway. But I might leave my anti-Facebook rage for another time.