This is the exact opposite of what youtube stands for.
You may have sold out guys (and rightfully so!) but at least keep some of your original ideas afloat
Highborn
· 2 years ago
So youtube is no longer web 2.0? Now it is web Orwell?
DJReid
· 2 years ago
I guess it's started, and it will likely only continue from here on out. I did like the fact that the CBS spokesman had the anodyne name Mr Smith. I was also impressed with his comment that “We thought it was a better user experience, and it gives us a second to weed out the completely unuseful comments.†Unuseful to whom, exactly? I'm the first to admit that a lot of the comments on Youtube are ridiculous in and of themselves, but collectively they resemble something more. Communication; free expression; a debate, no matter how tenuous. A series of filtered comments all praising CBS is much more insidious and much less interesting.
John Dowdell
· 2 years ago
Odd observation... we're hearing of this from the New York Times, which has some odd policies of its own in "Letters To The Editor" feedback, and its recognition of news analyses via weblog....
Justin Kistner
· 2 years ago
There are so many faceless cowards spreading their hate on every video they can that I don't care if the comments are moderated, err, I mean censored. In fact, I've started to refer to mean YouTubers as TubeDicks.
Powers
· 2 years ago
Hold on. YouTube has always allowed the owner of a video to approve comments on any of your videos before they are posted. Owners can always delete comments on their own videos. Also, every video has always had a "view all comments" page. So YouTube is not censoring. Video owners each have a choice on what to do with their own video comment area.
We just introduced a new paging interface for comments. What you are seeing is a bug on the display of the first page. We have to display the first 10 approved comments rather than pull from the list of all comments.
What is newsworthy here? There is nothing sinister going on, we were just trying to make the viewing of comments more usable by paging them.
Youtube fan
· 2 years ago
Anyway i like it - when i'm looking for something there I always find it :) Almost like with google :P
Censored by YouTube
· 2 years ago
YouTube should display the number of comments that have been censored.
Sending an e-mail to the person whose comment is being censored would also be good.
Belinda
· 2 years ago
I am never impressed when people want to fire someone like Imus for no good reason. People say nastier things than what he said and they don't get fired. To have as your goal to get someone fired is disgusting, especially in this day and age when you are not guaranteed to keep your job anymore.
Josh
· 2 years ago
YouTubers have a right to comment on whatever they want and say whatever they want. But I have a right to not read what they have to say.
Ashley Pomeroy
· 1 year ago
Given the calibre of Youtube commentators, I don't blame them.
OldSmelly
· 1 year ago
It has become apparent to me that YouTube is censoring comments, but whom has the last say on your comment?
Is it the owner of the video that deletes them? But what if the owner never gets to see the comment? To be honest, I think a FOI needs to be served on YouTube in regards to their policy for "comment censoring".
YouTube - [B]TheyDelete{\B]
John
· 1 year ago
Removing comments that include criticism towards their precious corporation in an attempt to somehow protect it seems unlikely and obviously pointless given the infinite scale of the web and Youtube itself.
kt
· 9 months ago
They aren't just removing comments negative to CBS! They are removing comments from videos that have nothing to do with CBS.
kt
· 9 months ago
Thanks! I wondered what the heck was going on, it's being turned into a propaganda outlet just like CBS TV! Now I won't bother reading the useless comments section below the video. It's an opportunity for some enterprising web genius to set up a site where you can link to the video and have uncensored discussion of them.
Julia
· 5 months ago
I think it's good to filter out all that garbage. Pleople need to be taught and shown good manners nowadays!
Rob
· 5 months ago
I'm fine with this. I'd hate to watch a video and then, while reading through comments, find racist comments (or rants of profanities.) This is long overdue.
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You may have sold out guys (and rightfully so!) but at least keep some of your original ideas afloat
We just introduced a new paging interface for comments. What you are seeing is a bug on the display of the first page. We have to display the first 10 approved comments rather than pull from the list of all comments.
What is newsworthy here? There is nothing sinister going on, we were just trying to make the viewing of comments more usable by paging them.
Almost like with google :P
Sending an e-mail to the person whose comment is being censored would also be good.
Is it the owner of the video that deletes them? But what if the owner never gets to see the comment? To be honest, I think a FOI needs to be served on YouTube in regards to their policy for "comment censoring".
YouTube - [B]TheyDelete{\B]