Programmable Restraint
I guess it depends on how popular a video is in regards to how many useless comments are posted. I tend to watch mostly low-subscriber videos, and the comments are usually quite enjoyable to read. However, when I check the comments on a very popular video, it's astonishing at how much stupidity and/or sheer meanness can come from some people simply because they believe they are an anonymous avatar on the internet; it reminds me of the crap that goes on during Xbox Live play.
Personally, I wouldn't want to disable Youtube comments, but I certainly can understand why someone would want to.
Edited: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:35:11
I agree with Foolz. I come for the videos, but I stay for the comments. I guess it falls into the same deprecating humor that makes me want to read Yahoo Answers.
That's awesome. Do you have a way of "advertising" availability of the plug-in and if so a way of tracking the adoption of it?
For Opera there's nothing really centralized for custom scripts, but for Firefox add-ons, Mozilla's repository maintains stats for weekly and LTD downloads, as well as allows for reviews.
Given that it just hides the comments, I don't think it's worthwhile to make an add-on for, plus there's already one that hides comments that meet an algorithm's criteria for detecting stupidity
Given that it just hides the comments, I don't think it's worthwhile to make an add-on for, plus there's already one that hides comments that meet an algorithm's criteria for detecting stupidity
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobile
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So, I did it. Being an Opera user, I used its website settings to add a custom stylesheet that makes the comments disappear altogether and any method for reading them, and I must say, the Youtube experience is much improved.
Silly as it is, having that extra layer of inconvenience preventing me from opening up the comments I know better than to read actually does the trick a mere self-imposition doesn't provide.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobile