SubJeff on 10/11/2013 at 23:16
Being the founder doesn't mean your say carries anymore weight.
When it comes to The Guardian ignore anything they have to say about the Matrix. They don't get it.
Muzman on 11/11/2013 at 00:37
I guess when it reaches 1 percent of their user base in about a month they'll just have to listen.
henke on 11/11/2013 at 08:43
Quote Posted by Jeshibu
Good job, there's now some asshole who's popular on Google+ at the top of the popular comments, even though he didn't comment at all, just shared the video. The ascii art dicks and swastikas and the full novels posted are amusing, the first few times, but the comment field really didn't need to be that long.
What videos are you watching Jesh? I just clicked through a few movie trailers and music videos and the comments are more or less the same as they've always been, except now more of them have proper capitalization and spelling and are authored by people with normal names instead of internet names.
PigLick on 11/11/2013 at 09:11
Curious, has anyone here ever posted in Youtube comments?
SubJeff on 11/11/2013 at 09:14
Yep. Loads.
demagogue on 11/11/2013 at 09:23
I've asked questions that the video raised before, and for the most part someone will answer them. And every once in a while the video will have some personal connection to me, like something I saw myself or whatever, and that's something I might comment on. But these would be for somewhat niche videos that only have 6 comments as it is. Edit: Like if it's a video of someone playing jazz piano, I'd complement them if it was really good and maybe ask some music theory question if the music did something interesting & I wanted to know more about it. Commenting would be good for something like that.
For some megavideo with millions of views I don't really see the point, since it just gets lost; unless it's a really damn good zing. Then I'd do it & get rewarded by approval of the 3 people that saw it.
My basic opinion is largely indifference to whatever they do, since it's not that important to me. I think as a general principle that almost any online expression should allow some kind of commenting just because I don't think information exists in a vacuum; so it's better to open up an outlet than nothing at all. But it's not like I'm expecting valuable information to actually come out of it much. It's just better to have it than not IMO.
Muzman on 11/11/2013 at 10:05
To be fair, people are talking like comments are over and they aren't. Countless blogs and newspapers and anything else that attracts comments have been defacto assuming everyone has a facebook account for years now (and those with other options have been a pain in the neck) to surprisingly little fanfare The only thing stopping the tube doing the same thing is the scale of the rollout. I don't think anyone should confuse that with it being some bastion of old school internet anonymity and free speech or whatever, even though people seem to think that's what it is.
faetal on 11/11/2013 at 11:34
I once commented on a video showing a bunch (20-30) of ducks running 2 abreast down a suburban street. My comment was that it would be awesome if someone could add audio of one of those US military call & response songs they all sing while out on parade. Some awesome individual saw the comment, made the video, uploaded it and then messaged me with the link. Now YouTube is such a mess of "social" integration, I can't even find where my messages went. I'm not even sure they exist anymore.
The fuck?
