YouTube comments - General Discussion

lemoncurd · 19-05-2007, 11:27

Why do so many of the comments on YouTube contain vitriol or are phenominally poorly written? Almost 60% of the comments include stock phrases like "You f***ing idiot" or "lolz da dude woz pwned". You'd have thought an organisation the size of Google could have splashed out on a few hundred mods to keep the place a bit more pleasant.
It kinda puts me off using it more.

Milky Joe · 19-05-2007, 11:27

I love youtube comments

Sometimes they are far more entertaining than the video! Some of the comments are so silly they're genius.

Mr. X · 19-05-2007, 11:28

Does anyone ever read the YouTube comments? I've never bothered. Perhaps it's to do with everyone intelligent enough to leave a measured comment being too busy doing other things to do so, hence all comments are written by no-marks.

19-05-2007, 11:35

The spamming ones I hate.

ForestChav · 19-05-2007, 11:42

Occasionally though, you can have a decent discussion over comments - even if you have to span cos of the silly 500 character rule.

LucyGoosey · 19-05-2007, 11:45

My brother (aged 12) writes comments on his own videos like: "OMG that is totally awsome", and "You are so cool dude"...

It drives me crazy.

James2001 · 19-05-2007, 11:46

I stopped allowing comments on one of my videos because I was sick of the spam/chain letters and having to delete them. I don't know how many times I deleted "post this to 10 videos or your mum will die in 4 hours". Funnily enough, my mum's still alive............

Sloopy · 19-05-2007, 11:50

I can't stand the spamming or those chain letters. Really annoying. Some of the users seem to be a bit lacking in the grey matter.

pxd867 · 19-05-2007, 11:51

The chain comments are infuriating. youtube will maybe start to ban them from what I hear.

Havelock Vetinari · 19-05-2007, 11:53

Agreed a lot of the posters seem to have the intelligence of a mayfly. And throw into the mix they can't spell and use text speak makes them look even less intelligent.

reem14 · 19-05-2007, 12:21

The chain letters that they post annoy me so much

Jason100 · 19-05-2007, 12:36

The worst are the chainletters.

Chickens hit · 19-05-2007, 12:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by James2001

I stopped allowing comments on one of my videos because I was sick of the spam/chain letters and having to delete them. I don't know how many times I deleted "post this to 10 videos or your mum will die in 4 hours". Funnily enough, my mum's still alive............

Post this to 10 threads or your mum will die in 4 hours!

Sidespin Nid · 19-05-2007, 13:12

Some of the comments on there arepretty racist but they're not removed!

Rosabelle · 19-05-2007, 20:43

my brother makes a lot of films which are on youtube and he gets some of the most inane comments ever. some people even post video responses which appears to be quite an effort to go to, just to leave a completely irrelevant comment. some can be fairly amusing though. Some absolute half wit left a video message on a french music video saying "umm i couldn't understand it, could you put subtitles on it please?" to which lots of angry french people responded. It was quite astounding

Sonic Dave · 19-05-2007, 21:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rosabelle

my brother makes a lot of films which are on youtube and he gets some of the most inane comments ever. some people even post video responses which appears to be quite an effort to go to, just to leave a completely irrelevant comment. some can be fairly amusing though. Some absolute half wit left a video message on a french music video saying "umm i couldn't understand it, could you put subtitles on it please?" to which lots of angry french people responded. It was quite astounding

do you have the link for that video?

I hate the spam\chain ones. It is like that on Bebo as well. You get idiots leaving comments on videos and other profile pages such as:

"Check out my page"

on totally irrelevant page. You also get things like:

"To increase your profile view by 10,000 hits, then check out my blog for the secret".

I have even seen this mentioned:

"I now have the bebo gold skin for being the 3rd runners up for having the most bebo views"

When you go on his page he only had about 100 views and loads of comments from strangers telling him what a liar he is!

I personally don't use bebo though.

James2001 · 19-05-2007, 21:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sonic Dave

"To increase your profile view by 10,000 hits, then check out my blog for the secret".

The secret is to give yourself the 10,000 hits.

Piscesgirl · 19-05-2007, 21:31

yeah the chain letters thing is bad

Sonic Dave · 19-05-2007, 22:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by James2001

The secret is to give yourself the 10,000 hits.

And the problem is that they use "txt spk" and they say Thank You as "FFFFFAAAAANNNNNKKKKKKKK YHHHHHOOOOOOOO!"

Talk about banging your head against a wall with those silly comments.

Kaos · 19-05-2007, 22:27

I like the ones on the Rammstein videos, especially the ones on the Amerika video... Half the Americans thought they were praising America the other half started going on about stupid stuff and all the Europeans just laugh at them and get annoyed when we get 100s of posts calling them Nazis...

Julzei · 19-05-2007, 22:37

Most of the people who leave comments there must have the brain the size of a pea, I wasted 2 minutes of my life reading a argument between a couple of morons over who's country was better out of USA and UK.

ForestChav · 19-05-2007, 22:45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olfxxNsubwI
Even so, some of the comments on here border on inane. And this discussion can be quite academic...

Integral · 20-05-2007, 07:33

When I started watching stuff on YouTube I found the comments rather irritating, but about a fortnight later I'd watched every music video ever made so I was done with it.

I'd say a majority of the stuff there is either inane or offensive. Obviously it means nothing, but if you're looking for a vaguely empathetic opinion on a song, one that might match yours or even stimulate you, then, well, "ur" usually doomed!

Most of the comments, good or bad, seem to be written by white North American teenagers - goodness knows why I think that. Dude.

Rosabelle · 20-05-2007, 10:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sonic Dave

do you have the link for that video?

I hate the spam\chain ones. It is like that on Bebo as well. You get idiots leaving comments on videos and other profile pages such as:

"Check out my page"

on totally irrelevant page. You also get things like:

"To increase your profile view by 10,000 hits, then check out my blog for the secret".

I have even seen this mentioned:

"I now have the bebo gold skin for being the 3rd runners up for having the most bebo views"

When you go on his page he only had about 100 views and loads of comments from strangers telling him what a liar he is!

I personally don't use bebo though.

here's the video my brother made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2BEhk1fqZo

here's the response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYII6...elated&search=

qixvix · 20-05-2007, 10:40

I was sent one with the most offensive comments - it was a group of guys humping an ottoman and the comments were all extremely racist!!! I am amazed that that is still on there

19-05-2007, 11:27	#1
lemoncurd Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Gender: Male Location: Bristol Services: Freeview (Fusion FVRT200 DVR); BeUnlimited 8Mb Posts: 23,289 Blog Entries: 1	YouTube comments Why do so many of the comments on YouTube contain vitriol or are phenominally poorly written? Almost 60% of the comments include stock phrases like "You f***ing idiot" or "lolz da dude woz pwned". You'd have thought an organisation the size of Google could have splashed out on a few hundred mods to keep the place a bit more pleasant. It kinda puts me off using it more.

19-05-2007, 11:27	#2
Milky Joe Forum Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: 0.3 units from doom Services: Wii - Ask for wii number! Posts: 17,448	I love youtube comments Sometimes they are far more entertaining than the video! Some of the comments are so silly they're genius.

19-05-2007, 11:28	#3
Mr. X Banned User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: On top of a hill Services: analogue, BT Broadband, 3 Mobile Posts: 3,608	Does anyone ever read the YouTube comments? I've never bothered. Perhaps it's to do with everyone intelligent enough to leave a measured comment being too busy doing other things to do so, hence all comments are written by no-marks.

19-05-2007, 11:35	#4
Eternal Life Posts: n/a	The spamming ones I hate.

19-05-2007, 11:42	#5
ForestChav Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Gender: Male Location: Nottingham - Chavland :s Services: VM 10Mb, Sky+, WinHomeServer, Win7, N95, PSP, Squeezebox Duet LOSE THE GAME Posts: 22,919 Blog Entries: 8	Occasionally though, you can have a decent discussion over comments - even if you have to span cos of the silly 500 character rule.

19-05-2007, 11:45	#6
LucyGoosey Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Cambridge Posts: 1,423	My brother (aged 12) writes comments on his own videos like: "OMG that is totally awsome", and "You are so cool dude"... It drives me crazy.

19-05-2007, 11:46	#7
James2001 Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Mansfield Services: Non-CWC NTL Home Digital v5.32, 128kbps broadband and Nokia Mediamaster FTA Posts: 18,820	I stopped allowing comments on one of my videos because I was sick of the spam/chain letters and having to delete them. I don't know how many times I deleted "post this to 10 videos or your mum will die in 4 hours". Funnily enough, my mum's still alive............

19-05-2007, 11:50	#8
Sloopy Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 59,888	I can't stand the spamming or those chain letters. Really annoying. Some of the users seem to be a bit lacking in the grey matter.

19-05-2007, 11:51	#9
pxd867 Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: UK Services: Broadband 2MB. Freeview, TUTV- Toppy 5800 PVR, PS2 + PSP Posts: 9,760	The chain comments are infuriating. youtube will maybe start to ban them from what I hear.

19-05-2007, 11:53	#10
Havelock Vetinari Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mended Drum Services: Scorpion Pit Posts: 12,906	Agreed a lot of the posters seem to have the intelligence of a mayfly. And throw into the mix they can't spell and use text speak makes them look even less intelligent.

19-05-2007, 12:21	#11
reem14 Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Swansea Posts: 1,547	The chain letters that they post annoy me so much

19-05-2007, 12:36	#12
Jason100 Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Gender: Male Location: 24 Ramsay Street, Erinsborough Services: includes VAT increase. Posts: 4,621 Blog Entries: 3	The worst are the chainletters.

19-05-2007, 13:12	#14
Sidespin Nid Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Services: Congrats Kim Clijsters and Juan Martin Del Potro - US Open Champions '09 :D Posts: 21,047 Blog Entries: 3	Some of the comments on there arepretty racist but they're not removed!

19-05-2007, 20:43	#15
Rosabelle Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Southern England Posts: 616	my brother makes a lot of films which are on youtube and he gets some of the most inane comments ever. some people even post video responses which appears to be quite an effort to go to, just to leave a completely irrelevant comment. some can be fairly amusing though. Some absolute half wit left a video message on a french music video saying "umm i couldn't understand it, could you put subtitles on it please?" to which lots of angry french people responded. It was quite astounding

19-05-2007, 21:31	#18
Piscesgirl Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Gender: Female Location: Peak District, Derbyshire Services: AOL Posts: 535	yeah the chain letters thing is bad

19-05-2007, 22:27	#20
Kaos Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Services: Still Cheering on Mirko even if he's a fool! Posts: 4,867 Blog Entries: 3	I like the ones on the Rammstein videos, especially the ones on the Amerika video... Half the Americans thought they were praising America the other half started going on about stupid stuff and all the Europeans just laugh at them and get annoyed when we get 100s of posts calling them Nazis...

19-05-2007, 22:37	#21
Julzei Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Wyre Piddle, S Worcester. Services: £50 an hour luv Posts: 2,127	Most of the people who leave comments there must have the brain the size of a pea, I wasted 2 minutes of my life reading a argument between a couple of morons over who's country was better out of USA and UK.

19-05-2007, 22:45	#22
ForestChav Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Gender: Male Location: Nottingham - Chavland :s Services: VM 10Mb, Sky+, WinHomeServer, Win7, N95, PSP, Squeezebox Duet LOSE THE GAME Posts: 22,919 Blog Entries: 8	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olfxxNsubwI Even so, some of the comments on here border on inane. And this discussion can be quite academic...

20-05-2007, 07:33	#23
Integral Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: England Posts: 2,107	When I started watching stuff on YouTube I found the comments rather irritating, but about a fortnight later I'd watched every music video ever made so I was done with it. I'd say a majority of the stuff there is either inane or offensive. Obviously it means nothing, but if you're looking for a vaguely empathetic opinion on a song, one that might match yours or even stimulate you, then, well, "ur" usually doomed! Most of the comments, good or bad, seem to be written by white North American teenagers - goodness knows why I think that. Dude.

20-05-2007, 10:40	#25
qixvix Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,844 Blog Entries: 6	I was sent one with the most offensive comments - it was a group of guys humping an ottoman and the comments were all extremely racist!!! I am amazed that that is still on there