Yeah, I just ignore that. Well, I sneer a little too, or scream in my head (NO! I DON’T FUCKING WANT TO USE MY REAL NAME, FUCK OFF!) before clicking No. They make it sound important that you do it, but it’s not.
Another thing, since you never use your original account you may not have needed to know or even think about this. PLEASE maintain the Comments on your new channel. You might get Comments from random assholes or be targeted by one of the many individuals or groups of trolls who roam YouTube looking to destroy channels by making nasty comments thereby making the Comments section about them, not the subject of the video. You can control the Comments made on both the channel as a whole, and the Comments made on the individual videos you put up.
You have 2 options to deal with them. First, if you see someone’s made a nasty or inappropriate Comment, go to the video’s page. To the right of the Comment itself is a little drop down. If you admin the page one of the options will be “Remove” (the other will be “Report for spam” or something like that). Click “Remove” and it’s gone forever. No one coming to your videos and wanting to read the Comments will have to see the troll’s crap.
Second, if there are a steady stream of assholes, and you don’t have steady access (say, trolls might post at 9:00am but you regularly can’t deal with the page until 11:00pm) and you don’t want your regular visitors throughout the day having to see that crap, you can change your global settings so that you have to Approve All Comments before posting. That might frustrate normal, polite, regular visitors who’ll want to see their Comment immediately, but you can include a “Sorry, I have to Approve Comments because of the trolls” in your description" so they’ll understand why.
A lot of people WANT to read and/or make Comments, and often someone will post very useful information there, but it’s depressing when you have to see then skip over the things the idiots say. YouTube Comments as a whole would be much more pleasant if people would just maintain their video pages.
I’m a fascist when it comes to Comments. If someone has constructive criticism (“unfortunately the drums are drowning her out, she should ask the drummer to turn them down”) or just a contrary opinion (“that wasn’t her best performance, it was obvious she was tired”), that’s ok, but if I get an email notification that someone’s made a Comment and see that they’re just being mean (“what an ugly bitch!”) their comment goes into the ether so that if she ever visits the channel/page, she won’t have to see it, and neither will fans or potential fans. There is no “Free Speech” on my YouTube channels. The trolls can go to hell, along with their trolley comments.
There is a 3rd option if you just don’t want to deal with the Comments at all, and that’s disabling Comments altogether, but that sucks. You WANT to hear what real fans have to say. You WANT to hear what new fans who just discovered them thanks to your videos have to say (which reminds me, make sure you tag the hell out of everything you upload.
And besides, disabling Comments lets the bad guys win, nearly as bad as letting them take over the Comments section, which tells people “Fuck it, I give up, let the assholes have it.” Disabling Comments tells people “I can’t deal with the trolls.”
One more tip: you can change your channel settings so that everything you upload has some universal things in common. For instance, you can set it so that every video you upload is automatically set to Private. I do that because I often start something uploading before I go to bed or work. If it’s set to Public my subscribers will get a notification about it when the Upload is complete, and they’ll come to the channel and watch it, and that might be hours before I get back to the video page. If it’s Private I can make sure the title is correct, the tags are done, the description is finished, typos are fixed, and everything is the way I want it before I change the setting to Public and send it out into the world. It save embarrassment if you get something really wrong.
