YouTube Fights Horrible Commenters By Naming Names - TRANS: All Of Your Comments On YouTube Will Now Show Your Full Name

YouTube Fights Horrible Commenters by Naming Names

An official Google screenshot featuring test user “Joey Samson,” formerly known as “joeysam87,” which shows the interface for converting an anonymous YouTube account to a Google+ account. YouTube has begun asking anonymous commenters to merge in their real names and photos. Photo: YouTube

YouTube is pushing its notorious commenters to name themselves.

When you comment on, or upload a video, YouTube will now urge you to “start using your full name on YouTube,” and ask if the video-sharing site can begin displaying the identity you’ve associated with your Google+ account (assuming you use Google’s social network). If you decline, Google makes you select a valid reason, like “My channel name is well-known,” as BetaBeat noticed this morning. (Google didn’t mention that wrinkle when it announced it would be rolling out this option.)

YouTube’s move toward real names was foreshadowed last month, when a YouTube product lead told developers at the Google I/O conference that the video service was planning some unspecified changes to its commenting system, widely regarded as a Hellmouth of crude abuse. As we noted at the time, making commenters use their real names and Google+ accounts was the obvious first step toward bringing civility to YouTube, which Google is eager to polish into a venue more attractive to business owners, advertisers, and creative filmmakers.

A YouTube spokesperson declined to comment today on whether more changes are in store, but it’s easy to imagine that offering Google+ YouTube accounts is just a first step toward hiding, and eventually eliminating, comments from anonymous accounts. Such simple steps would do more to improve the perceived quality of YouTube content than any upgrade to surround sound or high-definition video.

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Comment by raymond _______ on July 26, 2012 at 7:01pm

Everybody should use their real name.I want whoever I say,whatever about,to know who said it,and if they have a problem with it,come to Ireland and I will say it to their faces.

Comment by Unemployed Storm trooper TK420 on July 26, 2012 at 6:35pm

I will never let them find my secret true identity... my life is more interesting this way ! LOL !

Comment by Denis Sac on July 26, 2012 at 6:39am

And all the rest of the GARBAGE ON THE INTERNET

Comment by Denis Sac on July 26, 2012 at 6:39am

They can stick it where the sun dont shine...Up yours YOU TUBE

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on July 25, 2012 at 10:28pm

lmao..good luck gettin mine, never used it from day 1 (2007), its Hauleywood to them ;)

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