{"id":3864,"date":"2013-11-09T00:21:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T07:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2013-11-09T00:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T07:23:37","slug":"youtube-new-commenting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/youtube-new-commenting-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear YouTube, what is going on with the comments?"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube’s commenting system has never been really well-structured, in my opinion. But in the past few days, the system went from okay to just plain bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the old system had its flaws, it worked and that is absolutely essential. The new commenting system? It fails at adding any useful features<\/a>, and\u00a0it\u00a0barely<\/em> works<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before, you could up\/downvote comments, reply to comments, and flag comments. Now, you can only do that with a handful of comments, if you’re lucky.
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Out of most of the video comments, I can only like\/reply to one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Besides the lack of essential features, there also seems to be a ton of clutter from Google+. Now, I’m seeing a lot of “[someone] shared this on Google+”. Okay, that’s nice, but do you really have to put this fact in the comments section? It doesn’t add any meaningful discussion.<\/p>\n

\"Apparently,<\/a>
Apparently, the new G+ integration is causing shares to appear in the comments section.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With these “comments”, you can actually like, reply, or report abuse. I find the reporting abuse thing silly. What, we’re going to report someone sharing a video that can be viewed by anyone with an Internet connection?<\/p>\n

In the spirit of constructive criticism, however, I will offer some features that I would actually like to see in the commenting system:<\/p>\n