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Friday, December 17, 2010
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8 comments :

  1. AnonymousDecember 18, 2010 at 3:32 AM

    Fine, your post regarding the context is interesting.... but now i will write something "out of the context" of this post :) I have just found out the "watch later" playlist: it's an interesting and useful feature! click on "add to watch it later" --> playlist on home page. It's a simple concept and It's more appropriate than "save as favorite" or the browser's bookmarks. thanks.

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  2. anotherDecember 18, 2010 at 5:26 AM

    Dear Youtube

    Please change the watch page layout so that I don't have to press a button each time I want to read a video description. I used to like reading video descriptions, but now I have stopped reading them, because I get tired of clicking a button to expand the video description each time I start watching a new video.

    Ideally the watchpage url should contain a flag telling whether or not I ant to expand the video description widget. That would allow the watch page to remember my choice of exandedness so that the widget started in the correct state each time I started watching a new video.

    Alternatively you could copy the channel pages. They allow me to read 4 lines of video description, and that is enough for the description to be useful.

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  3. Nickname unavailableDecember 18, 2010 at 7:54 AM

    How about no.

    Here's some context for you: Youtube isn't a learning service, it's not always a place where we want to share videos with as many people as possible. It's a service where we want to share movies with our friends. And not all of our friends. Maybe one or two through a discreet tinyurl link. So a longwinded, detailed narrative just isn't ideal. So take your community "ethics" and redirect that energy off the grid entirely. Youtube is fine the way it is, and doesn't need someone sitting behind a walnut pressboard desk telling its users what great new thing it talked about over the watercooler.

    Respectfully,
    Mandatory Google Account Disclosure

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  4. FC360December 18, 2010 at 2:42 PM

    I like how you're using a screenshot of a video of a naked woman in the water rofl

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  5. dimomargDecember 20, 2010 at 11:04 AM

    how about not having to go through comment approval to express our opinions in the blog before calling yourselves a platform for free expression?

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  6. PainMakerDecember 24, 2010 at 7:16 PM

    Merry Christmas everybody! :D

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  7. BFeelyDecember 27, 2010 at 9:31 AM

    The comment approval process is a choice of the video authors, not of YouTube.

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  8. Alain-Christian SeraphinNovember 5, 2011 at 7:46 PM

    @BFeely he's talking about posting comments on this blog.

    @dimomarg Hey man, The Internet is NOT the United States of America. Free Speech/expression is not a right online. Unless you own the server you're posting on, you're beholden to the policies of the sysops and siteops.

    Youtube wants to look over the comments before they're posted to the blog. That's totally their right. This is THEIR BLOG. Their blog, their rules. That's how it works. They don't owe you anything and you're not entitled to anything.

    Once you understand this point, dimomarg, I think you'll be less frustrated by limited online expression in the future.

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