Google's finally doing something about the global embarrassment of comments beneath YouTube videos, in soon allowing Google+ to be used when interacting on the site. The shift will see Google allow private comment fields viewable only by G+ friends, plus new threading, filtering and sorting options to relegate spammers and idiots. [YouTube] Read More >>
YouTube comments can be an unmoderated wilderness full of ill-will and lame obscenities the likes of which, well, the likes of which you've seen in YouTube comments. Maybe you're used to it, maybe you don't dare drift that far down the page for fear of losing yourself in the inanity. YuleTube can help change that by making those gift-giving comments elfin' festive. Read More >>
Featured comment by Bleary:
"At least Youtube can sometimes be amusing with its incoherent juvenile spite.
have you tried reading the comments on Yahoo? Horrible people, the..." More »
Oh noes. Facebook has activated emoticons in the comments. That means that now your Facebook page will get full of all kinds of smileys. And, for some reason, sharks. Read More >>
Featured comment by sallyde84:
"I came across some pages where the comments were looking a bit different today. Took a second for me to realize that the Smileys aka Emoticons we use ..." More »
YouTube is notorious for its godawful, subhuman commenters. Google's solution? Implementing a new regime in which people are prompted to switch their accounts to their real name. Fortunately, the majority comments continue to be just as horrendous and offensive as ever. Business as usual! Read More >>
Featured comment by Hyperstate:
"I'm notorious for getting the wrong end of the stick :) but I think he meant, there's going to be a barrage of court cases of people suing those who h..." More »
Google's plan to bleach-clean the cesspit of YouTube comments is now rolling out to users around the world, coming in the predictable form of Google+ integration. Google's now asking us to grow up and leave our silly old pretend names behind, and to start being ourselves on the internet. Read More >>
Featured comment by Lester__Bangs:
"I would only use youtube if they forced people to use a Google+ account. Some of the abuse on their is just damn right poor. Something needs to be don..." More »
People really like Christopher Nolan movies. They like them so much that everyone knows they like them before they even see the movies. So much, in fact, that they'll cuss out and threaten any critics who disagree so badly that Rotten Tomatoes has to disable commenting for the movie—a first for the site. Read More >>
Featured comment by Aeropher:
"I was gonna do a parodical hate comment since I love batman so much but I was worried you might think I was serious =/" More »
Facebook comments are a fireworks show of impulsiveness, like much else with Facebook. Mercifully, FB just gave us the ability to edit things we wish we might have said differently. But now, our screwup is open for everyone to see. Read More >>
Speaking during one of the YouTube-themed events at last week's Google I/O event, Google man Dror Shimshowitz claimed it's working on some sort of system to bring an end to the torrent of misery unleashed daily by the comments beneath YouTube videos. Read More >>
Attention hasty commenters and people who are friends with them: the benevolent decision-makers at Facebook are doing you a solid; over the next few days, Facebook will be rolling out the ability for users to edit their own comments. Read More >>
YouTube has long been established as the home of the absolute worst commentariat on the internet today; a vile, racist, hatful spigot of bad spelling and small minds. But maybe that one downvote on that magical tale of human triumph has a simple explanation: literally everyone's on YouTube. Even misogynists, idiots, and Death. [Doghouse Diaries] Read More >>
Featured comment by Denius:
"I know. It's like they were abused by everyone as a children, and so they are suffering OCD (which, in this case, stands for Obnoxious C**t Disorder),..." More »
In the four-and-a-half months Giz UK's been live, we've seen over 26,000 comments -- a number most UK tech sites would take years to accumulate. As this completely took us by surprise, it's taken us until now to roll out several much-requested commenting features including, yup, reply notifications. Grab my hand, and let's take a tour: Read More >>
A post on Facebook has received over a million comments, which is believed to be a first. Sadly, it was achieved by 107 fans of the game Frontierville who hit the 1,001,291 comment mark with a lot of two-letter posts. The record attempt has been submitted to Guinness for appraisal, but as yet there's been no response. [Fox40 via The Verge] Read More >>
Featured comment by traceyhodgson1974:
"my friend nattie murphy saw the record and suggested to me to do it, so i said would be great to do this for our group-show what we are capable of whe..." More »
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