You may be missing a lot of good comments on YouTube videos (at least, if you watch entertaining content that gets a lot of upvotes). Now that comments are filtered by a sort of “magic algorithm” (which I assume is similar to the Forum’s—recency and upvotes), top comments on positive/entertaining videos are regularly very funny and occasionally provide interesting background context.
That said, I can’t speak to intellectual content, and I’m sure that “controversial content” comments are still terrible, because they lead to more upvoting of negative content that one side or the other wants to support.
You may be missing a lot of good comments on YouTube videos (at least, if you watch entertaining content that gets a lot of upvotes). Now that comments are filtered by a sort of “magic algorithm” (which I assume is similar to the Forum’s—recency and upvotes), top comments on positive/entertaining videos are regularly very funny and occasionally provide interesting background context.
That said, I can’t speak to intellectual content, and I’m sure that “controversial content” comments are still terrible, because they lead to more upvoting of negative content that one side or the other wants to support.