[Pxtl]

It sounds like Google+ is meant to be Google's answer to Disqus as much as its answer to Facebook. With that in mind, Youtube integration makes perfect sense.

That said, it's obviously got a lot of warts, like promoting Plus power-users over the regular subscribers. Say what you want about Reddit, but at least the infamous karma-farmers get a lot of legitimate upvotes before they bubble to the top and don't pop in their^H^H^H^H^Hthere automatically on the strength of their reputations.

[stcredzero]

the infamous karma-farmers get a lot of legitimate upvotes before they bubble to the top and don't pop in their automatically on the strength of their reputations.

This "popping-in" reminds me of Digg somehow.