[Aerbil313]

> They've had some version of a comment section for almost two decades now and at no point during that time have they succeeded at cultivating a platform wide culture for interesting comments.

I'd propose there is no need for a public comments section. I honestly don't understand this feature creep.

[scrollaway]

You can't call it feature creep if it's been there since literally day 1.

Some channels use the comment section extensively. PBS Space Time for example does a Q&A almost every episode where they answer questions posted as comments from previous videos.