I guess Google couldn't resist tapping into one of their only successful social media (Youtube) to promote G+. Of course Youtube being right below 4chan's /b/ in terms of online discussion it was a very risky decision.
Google is very good at sorting the web and finding the interesting content. I think in the long run they might be able to do the same thing with comments and be able to extract the insightful content and weed out all the noise. If they manage to do that it could be a revolution: imagine a website like reddit where you could automatically hide all low-content submissions and comments based on your preferences.
They're definitely not there though, so far this G+/Youtube integration is an unmitigated disaster. It even broke my Chrome plugin that removed all comments from Youtube videos. Life is suffering.
Google is very good at sorting the web and finding the interesting content. I think in the long run they might be able to do the same thing with comments and be able to extract the insightful content and weed out all the noise. If they manage to do that it could be a revolution: imagine a website like reddit where you could automatically hide all low-content submissions and comments based on your preferences.
They're definitely not there though, so far this G+/Youtube integration is an unmitigated disaster. It even broke my Chrome plugin that removed all comments from Youtube videos. Life is suffering.