I just received an alert for a post on Technorati where author Stephen Victor offers 5 points to make the commenting system on Youtube better.

He mentions the following characteristics that generally leave a sour taste in your mouth

It’s like wandering into the middle of a dodge ball game where everybody is aiming at everyoneelse’s face and nobody ever wins.
It is a frenetic, unceasing 500-million-cardemolition derby.
It’s spattered with racism, homophobia, profanity, and incendiary genital-wagging.
Comments are submitted with a clear disregard for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.