Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’

A typical day on YouTube. You find a cool music video, say a Dave Matthews one and you love the song. You then scroll down, the first comment states that Dave Matthews is a fraud because Puccini writes better violin pieces, and then you see 20 comments about the current political situation. I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t really go to YouTube for political debates.

If you’re not interested in some comments, YouTube has implemented a new filter system that lets you hide them altogether, or filter them so only comments with a rating of 1 or better are shown for example. You can also hide profanity and racial stuff, so you might just get some relevant comments if you’re lucky.

Personally I go for vids, not comments, so I don’t really mind, but if there would be any interesting comments it would be great to see them. It’s great that they’re trying to raise the user experience bar though, I hope they think up some even better mechanics, allowing video posters to close comments to profanity, they just wouldn’t show up at all.