As best as I can tell, there's no way to find your previous comments, OR to tell if you've received a reply.
It's a commenting system without the pretty standard minimum feature set pretty much every other commenting system has.
It's a commenting system without the pretty standard minimum feature set pretty much every other commenting system has.
as i see it: Youtube comments are not intended to be something that adds value to the video, it is supposed to be a feedback mechanism for the one who posted the video
Yeah. Compared to a forum written in, say, 1995, it's kind of a joke.
As for receiving a reply, I know that you get a notification, at least if people use your +name in their comment, but it isn't easy to manage given the lack of history, as you pointed out.
Most likely to contain flame wars. We're dealing with base level humanity on YouTube. You have to enact these sort of constraints to keep things tolerable.
It seems like they may as well just remove commenting, at that point.
Currently, the system rather seems to encourage flame wars then to prevent them. You might not find the comment that you were planning to reply - but you'll always find some comment that you can spray fresh vitriol on.
Finally, as a constraint I find the design odd - it doesn't actually prevent you from doing anything, it just makes an arbitrary set of actions unnecessarily hard.