Google+ Integration: The harms outweigh the Benifits.

"1. GOOGLE + MAKES IT INCREDIBLY HARD IN ORDER TO RETAIN an anonymous identity." Firstly, it is on the part of the user that such anonymity remains there, as there is no evidence to suggest that Google makes any attempt to ascertain your true identity. There is just as much capability for a user to lie about their real name whilst making a Google+ account as there is for that same user to reveal their real name when making their YouTube account. Lastly on this point, your note at the end only serves my point. What that 80% represents, is that when the update came out, four out of every five YouTube users already had the main prerequisite for being able to comment on YouTube. "2. The Google+ update Caused many Videos to be lost entirely" Source #3 only cites vague issues, without referring to any numbers at all, except for the number "177" which was referring to the number of minutes in the movie Braveheart as a user posted the entire script into a comment to prove the infinite characters feature. "3. Google+ Has caused Lost Notifications and other problems relating to it." I can say the same thing about this that I did of point #2 in that no numbers are cited, and only a small number of users, as far as I can tell from your sources, actually has this notification issue. Lastly on this point, your asserted "ripple effects" are an example of a slippery slope fallacy. "4. Changes Regarding Length and links in comments have been removed" Firstly, as you state, the link feature has been taken down due to abuse. That being said, links can still be posted via the description, and by messaging the user, therefore there are still workarounds to this. While I can't deny such use of the character limit, the main content of such ASCII art seems to involve the Bob's Army art, which is in it of itself, a protest to the change [1]. People's abhorrence to the new system is what has caused the spam, not so much people's immaturity. "5. Youtube new moderation Screws with messages with their "spam" filter." "Nearly impossible" is a highly subjective term here, as the person in the video is able to get to the relevant comment in five clicks. I wouldn't personally label five clicks to reply as "nearly impossible". Lastly on this point, if the comment was truly something of value, then other users would thumbs it up, putting it at the top of the comment list. "6. The Grandfather Clause means Millions of comments can now not be replied to" The breaking of old things tends to happen a lot. Today, for example, was the release of the 0.23 update for Kerbal Space Program. All mods for this game that have yet to be updated, don't work [2]. If we look further back to the 0.21 update, all save files were broken along with all mods, meaning that players would have to start from scratch each time [3]. Such lack of grandfather code is inevitable in many cases like this. That isn't something to hold against it though, as it is most likely something that couldn't be avoided. "7. Features are not there due to new commenting system" "Major harm" implies that there is something wrong with the system at some fundamental level, whereas in my opinion, and even in your previous sentence, it is just a bit of an inconvenience. This isn't something to get up and protest about. "8. And Finally, Google+ Makes everything take longer." Just as in point #7, this is a mere inconvenience, and nothing more. Vote con. 1. http://www.youtube.com... (seen in many of the videos) 2. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com...! 3. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com...