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[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 17 insightful - 4 fun17 insightful - 3 fun18 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

In my experience, having been on Youtube since 2007, what Susan Jewcicky did to YT comments is way, way more damaging than Reddit turning batshit commie. So many more people used the commenting system under videos, and do it till this day, but that witch started disappearing comments and reply notices and started manipulating what's popular vs what's "socially justified". Not to mention other YT manipulation involving creators. Reddit, I personally never used much because there are so many message boards out there to choose from that there is no need to tie yourself to just one.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Youtube comments were always terrible. What really damaged conversation was taking away video replies. No one reads a wall of text but you can say it all in a 5 min video and people would watch it. It also take more effort to create a video response so it seriously limited the ability for trolls and shills to play their games.