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#1 jetpower3
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What do you think is the worst website guilty of hosting massive amounts of comments that give rise to flaming, bigotry, and just generally uneducated and unsubstantiated remarks that sadly so many people buy into?  

I thought You-Tube for the longest time took this trophy, but ever since Yahoo! News re-enabled comments, I'm not so sure anymore. Just reading some of the comments for instance on an otherwise standard political and foreign policy article often greatly disturbs me. I suppose anywhere with a significant enough community will be just as bad, but these stick out to me in a way I've never seen before.  

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#2 110million
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I would say Youtube, but I would never use Yahoo news. :o

I don't use Facebook but I see a lot of facebook snippets on Reddit, and there seems to be a lot of stupid comments there too.
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#3 789shadow
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That place. You know the one.
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#4 deactivated-63f6895020e66
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Other than GS, I avoid reading user comments. It's healthier that way.

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#5 Heil68
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YouTube is full of haters.
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^Banned.
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#7 Cook66
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I hear that channel with the four is pretty bad.
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#8 Lionheart08
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I hear that channel with the four is pretty bad.Cook66

Channel 4 news?

Encyclopedia Drammatica was pretty bad as well.

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Any major news outlet's website.

The worst comments I regularly read are at Giant Bomb, though.

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Well I don't go to that place whose name we can't mention so I don't know how bad it gets over there so YouTube takes the cake for me. Never seen a bigger cesspool of racism and idiocy than the YouTube comment section.
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#11 789shadow
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[QUOTE="Cook66"]I hear that channel with the four is pretty bad.Lionheart08

Channel 4 news?

Encyclopedia Drammatica was pretty bad as well.

How could I have forgotten to mention this? It's small wonder it was taken down.

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#12 SpinoRaptor24
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Youtube.
Gamefaqs.
That site that rhymes with 'poor fan'.
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#13 Seabas989
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Yahoo followed by youtube and gametrailers.
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#14 SilverChimera
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Youtube. No contest.
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#15 Lionheart08
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[QUOTE="Lionheart08"]

[QUOTE="Cook66"]I hear that channel with the four is pretty bad.789shadow

Channel 4 news?

Encyclopedia Drammatica was pretty bad as well.

How could I have forgotten to mention this? It's small wonder it was taken down.

They've transitioned into becoming a new site called Oh Internet. It's porn free!

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#16 789shadow
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[QUOTE="789shadow"][QUOTE="Lionheart08"]

[QUOTE="Cook66"]I hear that channel with the four is pretty bad.Lionheart08

Channel 4 news?

Encyclopedia Drammatica was pretty bad as well.

How could I have forgotten to mention this? It's small wonder it was taken down.

They've transitioned into becoming a new site called Oh Internet. It's porn free!

One word: Offended.

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The stuff I read on youtube just stupidifies me.

Sucha a cesspool of racism, idiocity, and hate.

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#18 killerfist
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Youtube gets my vote. I feel my IQ drops with every comment I read.
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#19 fabz_95
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Youtube have some pretty stupid comment sections; The Sun football comment sections are awful too.
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#20 nintendoboy16
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Youtube and Yahoo. Good lord.
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Of what I've seen, YouTube. Mindless love and hate. No lulz to be had.

Yay, having moderators!

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#22 Ibacai
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Yeah, that evil place....
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Youtube and Yahoo. Good lord.nintendoboy16

This. 

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I've never seen threats of violence as much as news websites, specifically with political articles. It's rather scary.
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#25 enterawesome
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Youtube and the fourth of channels are quite disturbing.
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#26 jetpower3
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Well I don't go to that place whose name we can't mention so I don't know how bad it gets over there so YouTube takes the cake for me. Never seen a bigger cesspool of racism and idiocy than the YouTube comment section.The_Game21x

This place whose name you can't mention: is this something new? Maybe it's because I've been off the Internet for awhile, but I've seriously never heard anything referred to in that matter.  

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#27 789shadow
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[QUOTE="The_Game21x"]Well I don't go to that place whose name we can't mention so I don't know how bad it gets over there so YouTube takes the cake for me. Never seen a bigger cesspool of racism and idiocy than the YouTube comment section.jetpower3

This place whose name you can't mention: is this something new? Maybe it's because I've been off the Internet for awhile, but I've seriously never heard anything referred to in that matter.  

Oh no, you know the site to which we refer, but it's so bad, actually mentioning it by name is a moddable offense.

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#28 Cook66
Member since 2004 • 5182 Posts
Youtube.
Gamefaqs.
That site that rhymes with 'poor fan'.
SpinoRaptor24
GameFAQs is GS. :P
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#29 Lionheart08
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Youtube have some pretty stupid comment sections; The Sun football comment sections are awful too.fabz_95

And so many people are obsessed with Justin Beiber. If you really hate someone enough, you wouldn't bother ranting about them. :lol:

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#30 jetpower3
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[QUOTE="jetpower3"]

[QUOTE="The_Game21x"]Well I don't go to that place whose name we can't mention so I don't know how bad it gets over there so YouTube takes the cake for me. Never seen a bigger cesspool of racism and idiocy than the YouTube comment section.789shadow

This place whose name you can't mention: is this something new? Maybe it's because I've been off the Internet for awhile, but I've seriously never heard anything referred to in that matter.  

Oh no, you know the site to which we refer, but it's so bad, actually mentioning it by name is a moddable offense.

Is it the site that begins with a number, and ends with a letter? I never knew that was a moddable offense.  

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[QUOTE="789shadow"][QUOTE="jetpower3"]

[QUOTE="The_Game21x"]Well I don't go to that place whose name we can't mention so I don't know how bad it gets over there so YouTube takes the cake for me. Never seen a bigger cesspool of racism and idiocy than the YouTube comment section.jetpower3

This place whose name you can't mention: is this something new? Maybe it's because I've been off the Internet for awhile, but I've seriously never heard anything referred to in that matter.

Oh no, you know the site to which we refer, but it's so bad, actually mentioning it by name is a moddable offense.

Is it the site that begins with a number, and ends with a letter? I never knew that was a moddable offense.

The name alone can sear the mind of a child!
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#32 DarkLink77
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YouTube. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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#33 Cook66
Member since 2004 • 5182 Posts

Boom!

Yeah, I went there. 8)

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#34 deactivated-5c8e4e07d5510
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Boom!

Yeah, I went there. 8)

Cook66

Beat me to it.  :P

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#35 Bigboi500
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That place full of bearded bears.
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#36 deactivated-5f9e3c6a83e51
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Youtube is bad, but honestly, most sites that allow unchecked posting tend to go sour fast. Look at CNN.com. Some of the comments there are pretty bad.
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#37 jetpower3
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Youtube is bad, but honestly, most sites that allow unchecked posting tend to go sour fast. Look at CNN.com. Some of the comments there are pretty bad.sonicare

That may be, but I think YouTube is a particularly bad case not only because of unchecked commenting and posting, but because of unchecked content posting as well. Whereas news sites have internal control and discretion about what they publish, YouTube's community is user-driven, and people can post whatever **** they want. Naturally, I believe such a lax atmosphere not only contributes to this problem, but also actively encourages it. 

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#38 kage_53
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Yahoo, ESPN and Youtube in that order. After that it's those political sites..
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Yahoo,Youtube,Fox,CNN,TMZ,DailyShow and Colbert Report. Done :)
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#40 Skittles_McGee
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Gee, how did I know what everyone would respond with >_>

ITT: overplaying hearsay about places we've never been to :3

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#41 Sky-
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Gee, how did I know what everyone would respond with >_>

ITT: overplaying hearsay about places we've never been to :3

Skittles_McGee

 

pretty sure most of us have been to Youtube bro

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#42 Lionheart08
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I've also really grown to dislike Off Topic Discussion and all of it's relgious bashing.
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#43 jetpower3
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I've also really grown to dislike Off Topic Discussion and all of it's relgious bashing.Lionheart08

Not to mention a lot of the "strange" ideas that have evolved there.  

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#44 Skittles_McGee
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[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"]

Gee, how did I know what everyone would respond with >_>

ITT: overplaying hearsay about places we've never been to :3

Sky-

pretty sure most of us have been to Youtube bro

I was referring to something entirely different.
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#45 HAZE-Unit
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youtube no contest, i don't know about the other site though.
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[QUOTE="Sky-"][QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"]

Gee, how did I know what everyone would respond with >_>

ITT: overplaying hearsay about places we've never been to :3

Skittles_McGee

pretty sure most of us have been to Youtube bro

I was referring to something entirely different.

you would defend tdh wouldn't you?

[spoiler] because I know you wouldn't dare defend channel 4 [/spoiler]