YouTube Taking Feature Advice From XKCD
from the ok,-that's-just-awesome dept
While any open online forum has its share of trolls and poorly written comments, YouTube is infamous for having a quality level below pretty much everywhere else. The (absolutely worth reading) online comic strip, xkcd ran a strip recently joking about one possible "cure" for this: having a virus written that would read a YouTuber's comment outloud before requesting final approval to post it. The idea was that any sane person would recognize how idiotic their comments sounded:Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Another feature suggestion
That way the people that really need to hear themselves will be forced to, and everyone else won't.
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It could be worse...
"Irregardless" is a prime example of this. *shiver* That word makes me cringe about as much as seeing someone wearing socks with sandals.
I don't visit YouTube, but this sounds interesting.
Mike, add it here?
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this is full of epic win
The best part of this feature is that youtube moved the submit button over and put the read-it button in its place. there've been lots of comments about how people, not noticing the buttons have moved, thought it really was a virus.
I still like the firefox addon that hides mispelled comments.
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Viva XKCD
D$
P.S. Thank you techdirt for brining this to our attention, I haven't been to YouTube in ages, and will have to check it out now. I wonder if the comments are going to get worse now with this "feature" though. my favorite back in elementary school was to run "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" through the reader program, ah what shenanigans I got up to... *sigh*
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don't talk about me that way Mike.....
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Hey
Anyways, @TwinRova
HEY! What is wrong with wearing sandals with socks? Keeps the feet from getting sweaty in the sandals (and I am not talking flip flops either, I could see them, but I mean snap on sandals, not even velco) Yet still has more air flow than shoes. Or are those not considered sandals?
I may have to fight you over this one. =P
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