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Re:Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as s... by joe_the_user on Friday May 18, 2018 @11:50PM (#17106561)
It depends on how you measure things.

Youtube is a higher-quality video content site. It has lots of experience serving this type of content.

But as a social network, Youtube is gutter-quality, the worst of the worst. The kind of social network whose more disgruntled content providers are literally trying to murder the people running the site and whose comment section is infamous for being something like the most awful part of Internet.

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Re:Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as s... by mattnewton on Saturday May 19, 2018 @12:06AM (#17106608)
I feel like the reference to the San Bruno shooting is detracting from your point. There was one incident still under investigation, and your commment pluralized and generalized from that.

I agree with the sentiment though, I remember during the 2016 election debates in the US, watching the YouTube live comments fill up with Unicode-art swasticas and depictions of people with turbans and bombs being shot at from behind a wall, and just incoherient expletives and slurs peppered in between.

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Re:Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as s... by losteric on Saturday May 19, 2018 @12:18AM (#17106633)
Youtube seems worse because the comments are public and global... but same folks are posting the same bigotry on Facebook.
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Re:Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as s... by joe_the_user on Saturday May 19, 2018 @02:14AM (#17106875)
Indeed - but youtube allows itself to become a public forum for the propagation of this stuff and it's hard not to see that as worse.
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Re:Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as s... by creato on Saturday May 19, 2018 @03:14AM (#17106982)
The problem seems to be limited to the mega-popular content, and it doesn't really seem that different from news website comments. For niche channels that match my interests (10k-1M views per video), the comments are actually generally fairly pleasant and sometimes interesting.
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