News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by lotsofcows on Friday November 08, 2013 @11:03AM (#6696875)
Because the single to noise ratio on Youtube was beyond a joke. This is, possibly, an easy way to mitigate that.
Re:Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by CookWithMe on Friday November 08, 2013 @12:14PM (#6697486)
The Android Market, erm, Google Play Store, has made the switch to Google + reviews only as well. As far as I have noticed, this switch has not improved the quality of comments (although the quality was never as bad as with Youtube).