I love youtube comments, for the most part, for the videos that I watch. Of course when I watch boobs then I don't expect anything but 'Id do her' in comments so I simply don't read them. Didn't Warren Spector teach us that we have freedom of choice. You don't take dive in trash dumpsters in real life so why visit trashy pages and read trashy comments on the internet?

Well, I think your post says a lot more about you than about this topic, really. No-one mentioned young people and I actually said that students are generally more open minded and mature than people in general.

I was really talking about "the masses" as in the average person. I can honestly say that I got a reality shock when I discovered how the average person really thinks and how cruel and harsh they can be. I grew up in a society which pretty much shuns emotional outbursts so I wasn't used to such unbridled opinions, especially not considering how misguided they generally are. The closest thing I encountered in RL, is a pub of drunken middle aged men complaining about life in general and even there, they tend to be more civil than the average forum I visit which really says it all.

I think the infamous Penny Arcade comic involving anonymity & behavior is ironically spot on - and then you have to ask the question if people are simply venting because RL doesn't allow them to relieve their stress or if they truly believe the things they write.

Well the thing is, you don't know whether something is trash until you've read it and Youtube DOES have vids with adult & mature comments. The thing is, I love a good discussion but it's becoming harder and harder to find them - and when you have to stick to niche forums, then the discussions you can have there are pretty limited by default.

honestly, i find so much good stuff on the net that i like reading peoples stuff more or less.


i look at it this way, if there is a web site that is truelly and utterly filled with trashy comments, then i stay away. but if there is even a smidge of good ones to read, then i read them all, dont let the bad get to me, and enjoy the good.

its why i enjoy gog forums, there is much good on here, a lot of people with series questions and bonofidely interesting and quality opinions.

if all you see is bad, you must not be looking hard enough.

About the Counter Strike reference... people behave like that in normal life too, not just in-game. Did you suddenly forget all the trash-talking and bullying in school that kids not good at sport or some other activity were receiving?

As a CS player that was spending 10 hours a day practicing the damn several maps over and over and over and over and over again, and playing many, many, many, many, many matches both online and locally, can tell you that the behaviour of people that act like idiots in-game doesn't differ from the behaviour they have while they're not playing.

I agree with one point thought, that once the masses get their hands on something, they ruin everything. Part of that has to do with the fact that the people who made a particular community good are now trying not to be a part of it (because they don't like the retard-ness and low-IQ way of behaving of new members, aka, the masses that joined just because the community is now cool) or just simply left.

Call me an idiot, but I am actually a supporter of the Internet ID stuff... at least the concepts of it, that a user will be unique and cannot mask behind nicknames spamming crap and all, and not worry a single second about the decision he / she makes.