 I've been YouTubing now for over a year and that is quite shocking because Honestly, I didn't think I'd make it, you know a week but here I am a year later, and I'm still making YouTube videos and The channel has grown just phenomenally fast. I'm so thankful for everybody who subscribed and liked and commented and supported me on patreon and joined the discord server and it's just amazing To me every single day that the channel continues to grow Over the year that I've been making videos I've learned quite a few things and I'll be the first to tell you that my videos are 10,000 times better than they were when I first started and I will also be the first to tell you that I still have a long ways to go in terms of making these videos You know better and I will continue to try to improve one of the things I've noticed in the last year however is that the YouTube commenting system is broken now I had a pretty good idea that this was true before I started making videos But it's truly been in the last year that I've realized that the system for making comments and moderating comments and just even commenting itself is just broken on YouTube and There's no science that this is going to be fixed anytime soon that being said I have some ideas on how they could fix it if they've you know ever choose to do so So today I'm going to be talking about five ways YouTube could make YouTube commenting better Both for creators and actual commenters. So we'll start out with a silly one So I admit this is silly and probably not a good idea, but I think it would be cool at least as an experiment I would like them to allow images and gifs and the reason why I would like them to do this is because I just think it would make the Comment section more fun. I It's a stupid reason. It's a you know But I do think it would make it more fun It would make it more similar to something like discord into where you can respond with gifs and you can respond with images it'd be cool now I will be the first to admit that this idea would cause all sorts of problems when it comes to moderation and Spam and all that stuff. So it's probably not a good idea, but I do think it would make the commenting section more fun Now the second one and the rest of these are actually much more serious But I wanted to get that silly one out of the way so the next one is that I would like them to adopt a better way of sorting comments and What I mean by this is I would like them to add the ability to vote a comment up or down kind of similar to what you Do on Reddit and I think that this is a good idea simply because then the best comments would rise to the top The worst comments would rise, you know fault of the bottom now Obviously this can lead to like a gang mentality people who vote down a comment Just because they disagree with a person and that person then gets bullied and all that stuff So I understand the downside of it, but I also think that for the most part it's a good way of doing things because Mostly the good stuff will still rise to the top in the bed stuff trolls and spam stuff would you know go to the bottom now? Like I said, it has the ability to be gained So it may not be the best solution But I do think that the way they do it right now just a simple thumbs up and thumbs down is Completely useless the thumbs up matter the thumbs down are completely useless because they don't count, right? So The fact that they are there is just meaningless I would really like the votes on a comment to actually matter is what I'm talking about Now the next two are very similar So I'm gonna kind of combine them together even though I'm also counting them separately the the first part of it is That I would like them to do a better job of an abling community Moderation and there's a good reason for this and the reason is that the AI that they use to moderate comments is just utter Garbage it deletes comments that shouldn't be deleted and about 90% of the time It misses the spam comments that it should delete it's the dumbest thing ever and They need to just not use AI if they're not any good at it So they should enable community moderation what I mean by that is that they should allow the creator to appoint Moderators who can control the comment sections now at the moment They may do this. I know that you can make a person a Moderator, but I'm pretty sure that that only applies in like the live stream chats. I don't think that that has any Bearing on the actual commenting system itself. I could be wrong on that I've never actually tried to make somebody a moderator before so it's possible that this is already there if it is already there they need to make it you know more important and more front and center because The only solution to the moderating problem that youtube has Is a human solution the AI right now just isn't cutting it cutting it. They have to have actual humans moderating these commenting threads in order to actually determine what needs to be deleted and what not it doesn't need to be deleted and The only real way to do that is to have the creators themselves appoint moderators from their community to help out It's the best solution because it just goes through and allows The community the creator more control over their own commenting section Which I think is something that is definitely needed on a similar note I mentioned how bad the the AI is And it is it's really really bad What they need to do and I can understand the downsides of this and I'll talk about that in a minute Is that they need to go through and allow creators to repost comments that have been deleted by the AI Now they do this sometimes if they pull a comment Sometimes you can go into your youtube studio back end and under hold for review that comment might be there and you can approve it But that's only about 10 of the time most of the times when youtube deletes a comment whether it should be deleted or not It's just gone and the problem here is that the youtube creator Gets blamed for it and well, this is not a big deal if you have you know, if you're mudahar and have two and a half three million subscribers you've made your Audience so you've created your community. It doesn't matter if you piss off one person because you you know You deleted their comment Or youtube deleted their comment But when you're small and you're growing the commenters are the The type of subscriber that or even the non subscriber that you want To make as happy as possible because those are the people who are going to subscribe Who are going to share the channel who are going to hit the like button? And will help your channel rise through the murkiness of the algorithm And the fact that the AI is so bad to as you know Delete comments that shouldn't be deleted and miss the comments that should be deleted It just means it should go away Or at least they should allow all the comments that are Deleted allow the creator to go through and you know Repost those or approve those you know in the back end now I can understand if the you know the larger creators have no time They have no time for this and then they could just ignore this system And you know youtube would just delete them after 30 days or whatever as they do now anyways And you know it'd be the same system as the larger creators are already used to but the smaller creators can at least Go through and sift through the comments that should have been approved and approved them Again, it's all about giving creators more control over their commenting systems And less AI because again, I cannot reiterate this enough. The AI is just utter garbage Don't do AI unless you're good at it. So those are the first four that I came up with in the fifth one I'm not actually sure if it's a good idea or not, but I think that at least Maybe would Help encourage people to take part in the voting up and down that I mentioned earlier But also encourage more people to actually comment because really you can expect about 1 to 2 percent maybe that of the viewers on a video to actually leave a comment Maybe those numbers might be even a little bit high. So in order to encourage people to comment more I would like to see them introduce a karma system of some kind again a la reddit Where the more comments you You know post and the more upvotes it gets you get points for it or something I mean, you're never going to do anything with those points But people like getting points and having more karma and whatever and also it would it would allow you to have type of reputation system on this on the system and if you Leave positive comments and good comments and you get voted up a lot You have a better Reputation if you get voted down a lot you lose points and therefore you have a poor reputation And maybe if you have a really shit reputation you get, you know, you can't Post a comment on a channel for a long time or something. I don't know it would help Maybe help a little bit in moderation because if somebody leaves a really troll comment Maybe they were just having a bad day and the the moderators can go to their profile and say well You know most of their comments are actually good. We don't have to ban them or something I don't know it's just a A way again a way of encouraging people to comment, but also Allowing people to build up a reputation on youtube as a good commenter instead of just being Random people on the internet as they are now so I Completely understand that a lot of these ideas came from reddit I personally think that reddit is kind of a cesspool So I don't know why I think that any of these changes would make the youtube comment sections any better But really what I want is more control for the creator over what gets posted Or kept at least and what gets deleted. That's the biggest thing that I think that they could change because right now the way it is the ai is broken and it just Makes the at least the smaller youtubers look like assholes because the youtube commenters think that we're deleting their comments We're not deleting your comments. I've I think I've only deleted three comments in my entire time in the last year Making videos and they were all like nazi comments, you know that uh YouTube missed, you know, they're dumb and so I just deleted those because those needed to be deleted And there was there was another one. I don't even remember it was a really stupid comment and it was Just bullying somebody else, you know, so I deleted but those are the only like three exceptions for the most part I let people comment whatever they want And youtube deletes a lot. I mean every once in a while. I'll have a video that I put up And I'll get a lot of comments and youtube will delete like 60 percent of them And it's just I mean people come to like the discord server or mention me on twitter Like why are you deleting my comments? I'm not deleting your comments. It's youtube the youtube commenting system is garbage And well, I know a couple of these ideas that I've had today are kind of silly. I do think that they Whatever they do it needs to be a better system because the system they have right now not only is bad for creators, but it's just Meh and for people who actually are leaving comments. Let us do more in the comments. It'd be kind of nice You know leave gifs. Let us vote On things maybe maybe introduce polls into the comment section. I don't know Be as creative as you want Let us put emojis like as reactions kind of like you do on facebook You know where you you can use an emoji to react to a certain post or a comment That'd be cool. You know literally Any ideas are better than the no ideas we've had for the last five years I mean it feels like the youtube comment section hasn't changed since they moved the commenting system to google plus And that's been at least 10 years ago It feels like it's the same the only thing that has changed is that the ai seems to have gotten worse so Yeah, we definitely need some changes and I had some ideas if you have ideas to how the youtube commenting commenting system could be better leave those in the comments below is as Hopefully youtube doesn't delete them But at least give that a try You can also mention me on twitter if you have comments you can leave them there You can also join the just the discord server. That's done in the Links below in the video description You can you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast before I go. 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