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I’d argue that YouTube simply implemented a Reddit like sorting mechanism.The top comments on a YouTube video are very similar to Reddit.

When you optimize for engagement (e.g. Facebook’s sorting), you get toxicity. When you optimize for approval, you get funny and wholesome stuff.

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Reddit top comments are notorious for usually bashing the original post or pointing out how it's wrong. It's a very common trope for there being a super upvoted front page story, and for the first comment to be "actually this is false/incorrect/incomplete/somehow a lie". This basically never happens on Youtube comments.

So, basically the same as HN.

HN is pretty much reddit as it was before subreddits were introduced

new idea: subHN, subreddits but fore HN

This is another good trait of the reddit sorting - much better to fight misinformation. With that said, jokes and wholesome comments do bubble up to the top quickly.

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