YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim asks: ‘Why the f*** do I need a Google+ account to comment on a video?’

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YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim has shared his thoughts on the new Google+ commenting system that was introduced to the video-sharing site earlier this week. In short, he’s not very impressed. More than eight years after uploading the first ever YouTube video, he wrote on his channel: “Why the f*** do I need a Google+ account to comment on a video?”

While it’s possible that Karim’s account was hacked and this post was, in fact, published by somebody else, the likelihood is that these thoughts were his own.

Google introduced the upgraded commenting system in an attempt to improve the quality and relevancy of YouTube-hosted discussions. The site has a reputation for facilitating a horrific amount of negative, random and hurtful comments, and so Google’s new approach is to sort viewer feedback by quality, rather than chronologically.

As part of these measures, YouTube users will now need to connect their profile with a Google+ account in order to continue commenting. Karim doesn’t approve, it would seem.

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[Zigen]

Google + is a fucking joke

[VileTouch]

one day you will need a google+ account to even watch the videos...that day will be the begining of the end of the youtube era

[mikie]

Maybe they hope for less comments to save on cpu load, memory use, and hard disk space. They're spending too much money on toys and cant youtubers.

[calguyhunk]

The site has a reputation for facilitating a horrific amount of negative, random and hurtful comments, ...

Yes, on some of the videos, the comments and flame-wars are downright nauseating. It's hard to imagine that there can be so much hatred in people towards anybody - human or animal :(

But the uploader has the ability to disable comments if he/she doesn't want hurtful comments on their video. And if it's somebody else's video who's intentionally inviting nasty comments, well that's the price you pay for a free society. I'll happily pay that price rather than live in a society bereft of freedom of expression :huh:

[Nastrahl]

Google introduced the upgraded commenting system in an attempt to improve the quality and relevancy of YouTube-hosted discussions. The site has a reputation for facilitating a horrific amount of negative, random and hurtful comments, and so Google’s new approach is to sort viewer feedback by quality, rather than chronologically.

It's completely doable without linking that to a blog service. They really think people are that dumb to ignore it's just to artificially elevate the number of Google+ users. I don't think it will bring more quality when we'll find in a few months that all profiles get no activity than Youtube comments. -_-

[jackieo]

the backlash will be tremendous