Hide the YouTube Comments Section

The comments section is the open text area where anyone can give his or her feedback regarding a specific post. Like many features of any website or software, the YouTube comments feature was developed for positive impacts. On the contrary, this feature may be generating more negativity than positivity as intended. This is due to the foul content that comes with any public forum due to a diversity of viewers. For the reason of their unfriendly display, this article clearly discusses the harmful effects of reading YouTube comments and why they should be disabled with a powerful tool like this Chrome extension.

It gives a lot of bad press.

When a blogger, a streamer, a brand or anyone involved in a scandal gets exposed through a YouTube video, it is probable that they will be dogpiled by negative comments by viewers who have intentions of hurting them in every way possible they can. On the other hand, a friend may try to chip in to defend the culprit, and the whole video becomes a hell of discussion and in the worst case a platform of insults. Genuinely, every time you read video comments when it does not have any controversy or when it is not popular, you realize why the creator may not like that kind of content on the websites.

Misleading information feedback about controversial videos.

You could be posting a video concerning a controversial topic that needs professionals to handle. A video involving matters such as abortion, LGBT politics or gun control. In the case of issues such as these, professionals who have sufficient knowledge of them are required to give a guide and educate others. These types of topics attract a lot of attention and generate a vitriolic and abusive audience. Due to attention and curiosity, every person who watches the video feels like giving out their ideas or knowledge about the topic through the comment section. Most of the views given are mythical, imaginary or superstitious without any raw facts on the same. You are assured of getting so many comments from people arguing with each other on both sides. Since the topics are vital to everyone, the two sides involved get very heated. It is at this point you feel the need to disable comments on particular videos to regulate such discussions.

Spamming problem.

You may experience a spam problem, and you do not want to moderate it in a cruel way using YouTube automatic spam moderation features. In the case of spamming, one person or a group may decide to spam the comments on your posted videos. These kinds of people can do much harm to you and your videos and at the same time spoil the intention of the video. You can control what these people can do to you by barring them from commenting either through banning from posting comments or by disabling comments. The latter is the sure way since they have no choice to make.

It disrupts interaction in a private forum.