Poll: The Great Youtube Experiment

[MercenaryCanary]

Okay since Youtube's forums are basically trash I have decided to come up with this experiment.
The basis is that we find any immature or mature video like say
A ghetto ice-cream truck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yznEVtNyyw
A music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QShSmpI0r9k or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PZ1Wh0jV-E
Or maybe you'd want to comment on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUXRpjHxxD0
Okay so lets say you've chosen the video.
Now look at the comments.
You'll notice that they are mostly short, hate-filled, or spam.
So what happens if he do the opposite of these?
Go against the majority of the posters opinions, make it decently sized,check to see if it makes sense then send it to them in a reply.
After that we can see what happens when maturity has been introduced into the flood of stupidity. This project will take place from November 2, 2008 until November 9, 2008.

If you do decide to participate put your results on this page detailing what video
it is and what you posted. If you put what the others posted that's good too.

Okay so lets see what happens when I do this to one of the random videos I selected. Lets do the Ice-cream truck one. I'll post back in..30 minutes until then try and find a few different videos.

 

[Molikroth]

I've tried this on many, many occasions. I'm guessing it doesn't help that in my amorality I have many unpopular opinions (which I try to convey in as polite a manner as possible), but as you may expect the replies I got were filled with ignorance of the subject, and mostly based on emotion rather than intelligence or a desire to further communicate.

I've pretty much stopped commenting on Youtube videos.

 

[Molikroth]

I've gotten a lot of use out of this script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29919

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

I don't know if I'll participate but I remeber posting a comment on Soulja Boy's xbox live video and I got into an argument with a Soulja Boy fan. His spelling was (obviously)terrible, almost every single word he wrote ended with the letter Z, and he used the N word against me more times than I care to mention. I think I won the "argument," and it ended with him telling me that I should call him Luke, and that he grew up with his dad who left him at the age of five and that his mother died while giving birth. Wierd, huh? I'd look for it, but I'm not willing to go through over thousands of comments to look for it. I'll probably do the experiment on one of those videos and post it soon.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Thats just...odd

 

[hem dazon 90]

ill participate my name is skinnyoompalumpa

 

[Anarchemitis]

<--- Who can't recognize this name?
I am in, my brothah.
I've already been doing this for about 2 months on some fanboyish videos regarding the PS3, directing them from stupid slideshows to SIGGRAPH expositions where PS3s are networked to do crazy awesome things like Real-time Radiosity.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Okay its been more then 30 minutes and when I check for any replies on the selected video...nothing.Huh.

 

[PurpleRain]

 

[Molikroth]

@ OP - choose a video that has something worth saying about it.

 

[goodman528]

Not everyone on Youtube is an idiot, it just feels good to post very strongly worded hateful comments, because more people will pay attention to that than some long post. I once wrote a 1000 word essay and messaged it as a reply to some guy's video, and I got a quite coherent 500 word reply from him a couple of weeks later. I was shocked he would reply, I was just blowing off steam.

 

[Jumplion]

Oh, I've given up on posting Youtube comments for a while, but it does seem like an interesting experiment and I wish you the best to do what everyone should have done in the first place.

 

[Molikroth]

ahaha! lmao that's awesome, but grammar and syntax are more or less the same things

Don't make us go pedant police on yo' generalizing ass. :O

 

[Blue Sonnet]

Reminds me of the short, infuriating time that I spent on the infamous Crunchyroll, and it's, lets face it, asking for it system of giving "points" for posting messages on each video. I counted once, and 92% of the comments were complaining about the lack of the next video in the series (the site hosts anime, most fully translated and subbed around three days after Japanese transmission). As the episodes are shown once a week in Japan, most intelligent people realise that it is not possible to go into the future and record something that hasn't been transmitted yet - alas, this appears to be too complicated for most CR posters, and detritus such as "OMGZZ, wher is nxt ep??? im waitin AGES cant live without mor eps!!!!!!11!" etc. I could live with this, if peoples responses to the above, patiently explaining how time and tv companies work, aren't completely ignored three posts later... I know, I'm asking for it for even going there. Rest assured it's completely out of my system.

Youtube can sometimes become like that, if something has been hyped up enough then people will post without looking at posts made even right before theirs - the amount of video hoaxes where even the poster writes in the description that the video is from an advert or so, yet there is always someone who writes that their friend of a friend has really seen it happen and was there in the background or similar.

Admittedly YT isn't quite as bad as CR, but some of the comments can make me worry for the future of humankind. I do hope that the experiment does show some change can be made, but unfortunately, personally I think that they might just go to another video of the same thing and post their rubbish on there. It can be quite entertaining to find someone who's posted something really, really idiotic, and see what else they've posted on other vids. Not that I'm advocating stalking by any means. Not me. Honest.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I always do that, and it's not much of an experiment, usually posting a reasonable, tolerant comment on any video that has massive ammounts of trash talk and flaming in it just gets you flamed and trash talked.
Mainly why I refuse to look at comments on things about 1) the military, 2) guns, 3) the United States.

Me too, so many people on youtube are just trolls that I can't bear to even go there anymore. So many people just look for vids to trash, or about a subject they hate, it's like, why bother?.

 

[SmugFrog]

I don't think it would do any good; and I can't access youtube at work anyway.

Purplerain, I love that xkcd. I guess it would be fun to do it like that - just posting obscenely long write ups to see what the response would be.

 

[Arkitext]

In the face of crushing stupidity and trolls of all shapes and sizes, the forces of reason and logic cannot hope to succeed... Why t'would take an artifact of immense power to wrest the clutch of the YouTube from their sweaty, malnourished hands. Into the fires of hades you must travel brave knight, not the comments sections of a website!

AVAST, LEST YE VOX THINESELF, YE OUGHT BE UND-- Wait, what?