… when defining what a troll is falls into such subjective realms?
YouTube may have the worst commenters in the world, but there's still gold in that dross, and there are plenty of other sites that are pretty awful. The problem is two-fold:
1. Comments can have interesting, valuable, useful, socially engaging content, so simply turning off seeing them is undesirable.
2. Reading innumerable comments where the commenter is suggesting (often with pitiable grammar and spelling) that a previous commenter, or the poster of the video/content, should be [fill in whatever horrid personal violations, cruelties, assaults, or fatalities you can imagine]ed, can really make you wish a solar flare would wipe humanity from the planet.
I don't have an answer, but I'd love it if Google did. At a minimum, coming up with something like "SafeSearch" in Google searches, for comments, would both allow people to express themselves in whatever manner they wish, but let those of us with marginally weaker stomachs see what others have said without being subjected to the filth.
If only were it as easy to do as to say.
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Land of trolls possibly getting a new bridge.
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YouTube Is Developing a Secret Weapon Against the Internet's Worst Commenters | Wired Business | Wired.com
YouTube will overhaul its comment system to better control its notorious peanut gallery.
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