A month or two back, I half-jokingly suggested a Firefox plugin to just completely remove the comments section from Youtube videos. For those who don't know, Youtube hosts arguably the most unintelligible, bigoted, downright stupefying commentary of all the Internet. You can simply set the comments to be folded and you know, not view them. The problem is that I and I suspect many others are just accustomed to reading comments for things.
So, I did it. Being an Opera user, I used its website settings to add a custom stylesheet that makes the comments disappear altogether and any method for reading them, and I must say, the Youtube experience is much improved.
Silly as it is, having that extra layer of inconvenience preventing me from opening up the comments I know better than to read actually does the trick a mere self-imposition doesn't provide.
So, I did it. Being an Opera user, I used its website settings to add a custom stylesheet that makes the comments disappear altogether and any method for reading them, and I must say, the Youtube experience is much improved.
Silly as it is, having that extra layer of inconvenience preventing me from opening up the comments I know better than to read actually does the trick a mere self-imposition doesn't provide.
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robio (2m)
I guess it depends on how popular a video is in regards to how many useless comments are posted. I tend to watch mostly low-subscriber videos, and the comments are usually quite enjoyable to read. However, when I check the comments on a very popular video, it's astonishing at how much stupidity and/or sheer meanness can come from some people simply because they believe they are an anonymous avatar on the internet; it reminds me of the crap that goes on during Xbox Live play.
Personally, I wouldn't want to disable Youtube comments, but I certainly can understand why someone would want to.
Given that it just hides the comments, I don't think it's worthwhile to make an add-on for, plus there's already one that hides comments that meet an algorithm's criteria for detecting stupidity