Huh? Okay, let's say "3 stories on the frontpage" indicates passion
There are currently six (EDIT: actually seven) separate stories regarding this on the front-page (and they'll almost certainly keep coming for weeks as everyone tries to capitalize on some of that tasty outrage), and it's actually pretty good right now, as it tends to be midday: overnight is usually the real garbage time, when various pseudo-political issues tend to more easily get pushed up.
This dismissal a la "it's just, you know, youtube comments" just doesn't work for me.
A site owned by an all-encompassing information juggernaut (who absolutely have strong profiles of every user who touches that site. I've seen various people claim this is all to target advertising, as if Google doesn't already combine it all into a very accurate profile) saw that their comments were broken -- this is without question, and the overwhelming sentiment on YouTube comments has always been extremely negative -- and they tried to fix having multiple identity system, as companies always do when they have multiple systems.
In doing so they tried to cater to both sides of the coin, and maintained the ability to hold pseudo-anonymous profiles (that pseudo being just as imaginary as it always has been).
Mass outrage. People intentionally trying to scorch Earth to demonstrate a point (the irony of being assholes to demonstrate that the world has assholes apparently lost on them). What a boring waste of bits.
There are currently six (EDIT: actually seven) separate stories regarding this on the front-page (and they'll almost certainly keep coming for weeks as everyone tries to capitalize on some of that tasty outrage), and it's actually pretty good right now, as it tends to be midday: overnight is usually the real garbage time, when various pseudo-political issues tend to more easily get pushed up.
This dismissal a la "it's just, you know, youtube comments" just doesn't work for me.
A site owned by an all-encompassing information juggernaut (who absolutely have strong profiles of every user who touches that site. I've seen various people claim this is all to target advertising, as if Google doesn't already combine it all into a very accurate profile) saw that their comments were broken -- this is without question, and the overwhelming sentiment on YouTube comments has always been extremely negative -- and they tried to fix having multiple identity system, as companies always do when they have multiple systems.
In doing so they tried to cater to both sides of the coin, and maintained the ability to hold pseudo-anonymous profiles (that pseudo being just as imaginary as it always has been).
Mass outrage. People intentionally trying to scorch Earth to demonstrate a point (the irony of being assholes to demonstrate that the world has assholes apparently lost on them). What a boring waste of bits.