OK, sure, they are the lowest cesspit of ignorance yet developed by man, but on occasion people have reasonable discussions. How do I see if there have been other comments on a comment?
For example, I felt like tilting at a windmill for a while and was going to address a comment on a Monty Haul Problem video. The default display of comments is “Top Comments”. Fine. The first one is by the video’s author, shows the last couple replies, and has a link to “Show all 28 replies” under it. Reasonable.
The second comment (by FoxMaster) shows no replies and has no link to show any. I reply to him. Now it shows his post and my reply to me, no others and no link. I keep getting notifications of other replies there that I cannot see though. By finding the right link in that notification I am able to see a thread of the replies and see that there are 38 comments, many of which are duplicates of what I said because none of us could see each other’s posts.
Anyone have any idea why this is and how I can tell that there are other replies to a comment before posting? Even if I change it to “Newest First” the replies do not show up as their own comments (based on their post time) and if I scroll down to FoxMaster’s post, they do not show up as a reply to that.
I honestly cannot tell if this is some sort of odd feature or something is broken.
YouTube used to list comments in strictly chronological order, like posts here (except backwards, newest at the top). About 6 months or a year or so ago they changed it to keep more ‘relevant’ posts at the top. I’m sure it was in response to the massive, insulting, trolling that goes on but how they determine ‘relevancy’ is beyond me…
This may have little if anything to do with a reasonable answer, but I find the clips that I have any interest in have reasonable comments (and not too many of them) that actually assist in the enjoyment of the item in question. If I go looking for “weird” stuff I find the annoying comments in abundance, but I prefer not to read them.
IOW, maybe it’s the specific clips that draw the funky comments?
They integrated with Google Plus, and so if you don’t have a google plus account, I suspect your comment is hosted on that videos comment section and everyone else is chatting it up on the Google plus equivalent of that convo. I know when they first rolled it out, you couldn’t reply to any comments that weren’t sent via google plus but that may have changed.
I gave up on the post-Google YouTube apocalypse, after intense psychotherapy and the consumption of many Hostess cupcakes. I still use it, but I treat it as a venture into an alternate bizarro world where nothing makes sense and the rules change every couple of months.
Oh wait, that describes life here, too. Sorry for vamping. Hand me a Holstein cupcake, please.
I regularly get good, substantive information about lowly-regarded forms of music thru YT comments. It’s like erudite squatters are scuttling about in a dire and squalid neighborhood. Only better, because miscreant youth seldom care to intrude on videos about 1920s dance band recordings.
The new YouTube comments system does not update instantaneously on video pages. I’ve seen people get really angry when people keep getting mad at them despite having already apologized. I have not figured out what causes it to eventually update. It does not seem to be a fixed time.
I do not believe anyone who does not at least have a Google+ page (which is different from a profile, BTW) can post comments at all. I know my dad can’t.
If I start getting a bunch of replies, I usually mute the comment by using the down arrow at the top right in the notification pane for that particular comment. I believe, but I’m not sure, that if someone actually replies to you, you’ll still be notified. If not, that’s the way it should be.