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Comment by rando289 | Hacker News Reader

> Hey, I can find videos of people angry at about anything that exists.

Actually, you can't, and your post is a bit rediculous.

For "features of websites that are widely used", how many of them are part of youtube crying videos? Probably ~0.0001% and it certainly could be useful to call one out.

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See, this is why Google wanted real names on Youtube. We've all read Youtube comments. They are the single worst comments on the Internet. Typically racist, usually mean, often obscene. Google really, through all this, just wanted to make the comments better on YouTube, I think. They heard everyone bitching and figured this was a way to make things less caustic. It didn't help, though...

I found them hilarious and often insightful expressions of honest humanity. Now, they're just shit. It's sad how much we're willing to give up to avoid every 100th comment being an aimless racial slur.

So, all this clever people working for Google thought about "making YouTube comments better" and all they came up was "kill anonymity!" and "name and shame! Time honored method to solve deviations from group think!"? Really? Oh well ..

> See, this is why Google wanted real names on Youtube. We've all read Youtube comments. They are the single worst comments on the Internet.

Removing some anonymity probably removed some viciousness in turn.

Flip side: for some bizarre reason, now we see the comments of just about everyone who shares a video on Youtube and all their friends who comment. Small to medium amounts of viciousness have been replaced with an immense void of vacuousness.

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