When making a comment...

[Lilikoi Juice]

I'm not sure if this is already known but even though you unclick the "Share on Google+" button when making comments, it might still be shared publicly on your Youtube and Google + public feed that you made an activity on that video if you have a "Public" circle selected; even if you have comment feeds off under your Youtube settings--I do.

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Tasha Green and and Tommy's video are ones I commented on which I unclicked "Share on Google +", but as you can see, its activity (that I did something or visited the video) has shown up on my feed playlist on my main channel page.

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Oddly enough, this only shows up if you have it as a playlist on your main channel page. You can see that if you click on recent activities either through its title (in blue) or via drop-down under the home screen (underneath your banner and name), it will not show.


So, I hope you haven't roamed around leaving strange comments on horse manure tutorial videos like I did. (That was a joke)

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SOLUTION

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Google requires that you share your comments with a circle for some odd reason... You cannot not select a circle to post with (A yellow warning pops up as seen above).

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If you wish to make a comment and not share that activity, you must unclick "Share on Google+" and select a circle that is "private". As far as I understand, this means that you must select a circle that has no one in it. I chose VIP in this case.

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After you select your private circle you can comment as usual. Afterwards you will notice that next to your comment it says "Shared Privately".

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I just made that comment about 7 minutes ago, and you can see that it is now not visible on my main channel page activity feed.

This should keep your comment activities from being shared.

Something to keep in mind is that you cannot un/select circles while on most mobile devices, so if you make any comments on your phone, although you have the option to unclick "Share on Google+" it will be shared on your Youtube activity playlist and Google+ public circle feed.

 

[unknown_user0032]

I think if you untick that box, nobody gets to see it. That being said, it's all a bit iffy for me right now so I'm refraining from leaving any comments whatsoever at the moment.

Everyone is now refusing to allow replies to their comments, so if you want to respond to someone, you basically can't.

 

[Lilikoi Juice]

I think if you untick that box, nobody gets to see it. That being said, it's all a bit iffy for me right now so I'm refraining from leaving any comments whatsoever at the moment.

Everyone is now refusing to allow replies to their comments, so if you want to respond to someone, you basically can't.

It's still visible on your Youtube feed. I'm still checking things out, but it seems to be only if you have your feed added to your main channel page as a playlist.
It doesn't show up on its own if you select feed from the drop down under the home button (underneath your banner), but if not, it will show that you made an activity on that video.

EDIT: I added some images and edited the post so people can see what I mean.

 

[Crown]

Everyone is now refusing to allow replies to their comments, so if you want to respond to someone, you basically can't.

Yep, is this by default?

It's ridiculous. I can't even reply to comments made on MY video on MY channel. The owner of the channel should be able to reply to any comment regardless of that option.

 

[BigzZ]

Yep, is this by default?

It's ridiculous. I can't even reply to comments made on MY video on MY channel. The owner of the channel should be able to reply to any comment regardless of that option.

Not sure if its for everyone, but for me its just comments that have been posted prior to the integration of google+. Anything thats been posted in the last few days I can reply to.

 

[Crown]

Not sure if its for everyone, but for me its just comments that have been posted prior to the integration of google+. Anything thats been posted in the last few days I can reply to.

Yeah, I've given up with the old comments.

No, this is a new generation comment "powered by G+" from a few minutes ago. I don't have permission to reply lol wtf

 

[WolfWraith]

Trust me, I think some people might be commenting on worse things than horse manure, I know they would rather use horse manure as a cover up xD

 

[Lilikoi Juice]

I think if you untick that box, nobody gets to see it. That being said, it's all a bit iffy for me right now so I'm refraining from leaving any comments whatsoever at the moment.

Everyone is now refusing to allow replies to their comments, so if you want to respond to someone, you basically can't.

I also believe this prevents the report function to pop up on the side.
Comments that were made prior to the switch also cannot be reported.

 

[BigzZ]

Yeah, I've given up with the old comments.

No, this is a new generation comment "powered by G+" from a few minutes ago. I don't have permission to reply lol wtf

Google needs to get their act together in that case, as channel owner you should be able to reply to any and all comments on your content no matter what. I haven't had that problem yet, but that's probably just because alot of people don't know you can do it yet.

 

[WolfWraith]

Google needs to get their act together in that case, as channel owner you should be able to reply to any and all comments on your content no matter what. I haven't had that problem yet, but that's probably just because alot of people don't know you can do it yet.

Yeah that and only the channel owner/managers should be able to post URL links in their own videos comments. I don't understand HOW Google didn't anticipate this...