Filtering
"YouTube's revamped conversation threads will freeze out angry and, apparently, irrelevant commentards from the debate."
As that would seem to be all of them such filtering should be easy.
Google's mission creep into more aspects of our online lives continued apace on Tuesday, after the company confirmed that it was tailoring YouTube comments to be more "relevant" to its users. What this means is that netizens accessing the video-sharing site will no longer be able to easily view the most recent comments made by …
I fear you've chosen the wrong temporal adverbial and verbal tense, rcorrect ; «already integrated ...» would far more adequately describe the current situation at the Reg. Try responding to a column by the journal's beloved «Executive Editor» with less than abject approval of his exalted point of view and see what happens to your posts to his threads !...
Henri
Too right! And now it's more successful than facebook, because every single youtube commenter is suddenly counted as a user.
Thank fuck Google don't try and abuse their dominant position in web video to foist their failing social network product on people. Only shitheads like Micro$haft would try to do that!!!
"...comments will soon become conversations that matter to you."
It is nice for those posting videos that they can moderate comments posted to "their" pages. It would be better still to give viewers direct control over what the comments that they see rather than relying on what Google feeds them. There is probably some portal that does just this, but I couldn't find it when I googled it.*
* For the sardonically impaired, that last bit was irony.
I was curious about what Youtube was going to do to get people to sign up on Google+, so I signed in to Youtube. It was pretty aggressive with popups to try to get you to create an account. If I remember correctly, it threw 2 different popups, and I don't think you could close them normally. Signing into gmail did similar, but not quite as aggressively. After you get past them, it appears to leave you alone for a while. I normally use Youtube not logged in, as well as most google services.
Oh FFS, can't I just have a life without google or some other company wanting everything to know about everything else?
Privacy? ha what a laugh... if google, Facebook & twitter had their way your location would be published at all times, every comment would be public, and everyone would know what you had for breakfast...
These things already make stalking so much easier, before you had to follow someone, now their location is included in so many social media posts...
Who needs the NSA or GCHQ hacking, people put so much of their lives public without a second thought...
Agreed, but you seem to neglect, MrXavia, the not irrelevant fact that Google and Facebook, at least, quite happily cooperate with entities like the NSA and the GCHQ, while, of course, protesting loudly, when this collaboration is revealed to the public, that they really don't want to do it but are being forced to for legal reasons. One doesn't have to use Google (which I do) or Facebook (which I do not), but try using the web at all without one's data being snapped up by the state entities mentioned above (and here at home in Sweden, the FRA, which gladly shares them with the NSA and the GCHQ) ! Of course, all this data mining is done solely to keep us safe and protect us from «terrorists», so everything is just hunky-dory....
Henri
First they insisted on Google+ to rate or comment on an Android app.
Sorry, Android devs, but you'll never get another rating or review out of me, and that's why.
And now they're integrating the shit into Youtube comments? Gee, I wonder what I'll be doing about that then? What I won't be doing, is having anything to do with Google+.
Note to the chocolate factory: If I wanted a Facebook, I'd have a Facebook. I don't, so I don't.
Google doesn't feed profile data to ad men, they keep the profiles and analyse them to determine the most profitable ads to show each user. That's a pretty fundamental part of their business, which tech bloggers ought to know. Data is their secret sauce, they'd be silly to give it to rivals.
...I decided to default to not allowing comments or video responses, and to disable comments and video responses on every piece I upload, for the reasons mentioned by most comments above. As an experiment once, I tried allowing comments on a video I uploaded, and quickly changed my mind as I didn't have the time or inclination to waste time scraping all the flamage, inanities, racist trollage and dating site spam which appeared almost instantly in my comment columns. I originally set up my channel as a place to make my work as a "citizen journalist" available for viewing, not as a soapbox for retarded trolls and racist loons. I know that's not very "Web 2.0" of me, but it's my friggin' space, so bite me.
As nasty and useless as most Web comment pages can be, YouTube is pretty much rock bottom. The YouTube comment sections are like the WWW equivalent of a dank, grubby, shabby dive biker bar with bloodstains on the floor, knife nicks on the bar, and a hallway that smells like piss and stale beer leading to rest rooms with non-functioning toilets and wastebaskets full of used condoms and syringes.
Believe it or not.
One thing: do NOT click the "make my channel private" button on Youtube. I did, because like you I have no interest in the Web 2.0 bullshit of Youtube/Google, but the effect wasn't a private channel: making your "channel private" is functionally identical to deleting your account, and it is irreversible.
Seriously. What if I'm not looking for "relevant"?
Half the fun of comments anywhere is the different viewpoints and the often serendipitous new things learned.
How about making search more relevant instead of the signal killing noise of news you have to get past to get to any background research or history? In other words, keep news results with the news section.
Now that would be "relevant".