By Emily Anne Epstein
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YouTube is set to overhaul its comments system to curb the droves of online trolls writing nasty and anonymous messages.
Speaking at Google I/O, an annual developer's conference held by YouTube's owner, head of product Dror Shimshowitz leaked the news that the website is developing a new method to halt the abuse.
Mr Shimshowitz and Google declined to elaborate on the plans but many speculate it could be the end of anonymous rants and raves posted at the bottom of YouTube channels.
Plan: YouTube is developing new technology to sort out the gold from the garbage comments
'Comments are kind of the Wild West of video,' Mr Shimshowitz replied.
'We’re working on some improvements to the comment system, so hopefully we’ll have an update on that in the next few months.'
YouTube users can choose to turn the comments off if they are particularly disturbing - but that closes the entire community, not just the violent voices.
Mr Shimshowitz refused to elaborate any further about the scope of the overhaul and a Google spokesman gave an equally vague explanation.
'We’re working to improve comments as much as we’re working to improve all parts of the site and YouTube experience,' a Google spokesman said to Wired.
Truly: The comments are so bad, they have inspired a parody blog entitled 'Stupid YouTube Comments'
YouTube's comment section is notoriously nasty. Buzzfeed called its commentors the 'worst on the internet,' likening them to 'the dregs, the scum, the poison.'
'YouTube is a comment disaster on an unprecedented scale,' writer John Herrman said in an article last month.
'YouTube comments read like gibberish and don't really seem connected to one another. Content ranges from typed grunts to racist sentence fragments to nonsensical homophobic outbursts.'
The comments are so bad, they have inspired a parody blog entitl ed 'Stupid YouTube Comments' that collates the worst of the website.
Wired postulates that YouTube may ask users to include more information about themselves before posting a comment, getting rid of the anonymous anarchy of the comment chorus.
'Many members use anonymous handles since YouTube, unlike other Google sites, allows people to create distinct accounts,' Wired's Ryan Tate writes.
'As a general rule, people are far less likely to troll under their real name.'
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I think Google needs to act on this current comment system. There's just no need for it, in fact the internet these days is fast becoming a toilet for the socially inepts verbal diarrhoea. Clean it up Google, it's beginning to stink.
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You can delete the comments you feeble minded halfwits. Free speech does mean the RIGHT to say whatever you like. If that happens to be nasty, then that is just life. Block them and move on or have counselling if you cannot cope with certain words.
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Instead of forcing everyone to use their own name and/or more personal information of themselves, google should simply give the owner of the video the opportunity to vet the comments they receive before they are made public. As far as I am concerned all any social website should require of anyone is a Username and a hidden Email. What personal information is google planing on forcing us to give them. Our telephone number? home address? or what? Just because the owners of videos are too lazy to read comments they receive and then delete the offensive ones, why should the innocent be forced to give more personal information.
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Thought police or what? People need to grow thicker skin.
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YouTube must be getting a major shakeup - Google has also blocked the downloading of music from the site, apparently regardless of whether or not it is subject to copyright. Very frustrating, especially since much of the music is unavailable elsewhere.
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Well that's dumb! If people don't want their feelings hurt, they should either stop posting videos of themselves singing a song they know they cannot sing or toughen up!!!
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Not before time. Some of the comments and bad language are disgusting and totally unnecessary. If people have so little grasp of English then better they keep their mouths SHUT
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Youtube has turned into a joke, the entry requirement of a google account these days was enough to get me to walk, I dont want anything to do with google let alone a google account. Liveleak is far better these days.
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I have read comments on you tube and have been astonished by hate and vulgarity expressed for no good reason.
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My videos pull in about a million views a month so I have heard a ton of bizarro comments. You can't take the comments personally, there is actually something BROKEN with many of these YT viewers. I want to encourage people to speak freely, but I also would like people to respect other viewers. I often leave replies like, "What would your mom think if she read your comments?" It actually works!
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