Everyone knows that YouTube comments are the worst around; I wonder if there is any way to change that.
Just a simple idea, but what if the comment box was moved to below the video instead of below the other comments? Would people forgo commenting on the comments and commenters? Would it encourage more non-commenters to comment (thus diluting the stupidity)?
I’m not a fan of comments (if you haven’t noticed), but I do think there is something valuable to people inputing data. Rating, sharing, favorite-ing, and even just viewing the video.
Comments are nice because they’re so open-ended, but that’s also what makes them so dangerous. People rating other comments is nice, but it just creates a bias. The system should rate comments based on content. Poor grammar? Misuse of capital letters? Over punctuation? Automatically thumbed down. It can even rate you as you type, just to encourage better comments. ∞
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