- Jan 8, 2011
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Sign Petition (change.org) - Google: Change the Youtube comment section back to its original form
Discovered via DigitalSpy.
CNET: YouTube comments revamped, users give thumbs down
"Meet the new Youtube comments" - [VIDEO]
Discovered via DigitalSpy.
CNET: YouTube comments revamped, users give thumbs down
Google has shaken up YouTube's commenting system in an effort, it says, to improve the quality of conversations -- but its users aren't impressed.
Among the changes are the ability to make your comments private, reply in threads, share comments to Google+, edit your comments and get notifications.
Comments can now be much longer -- which one user tested by posting the entire script of the 177-minute movie Braveheart -- and can include URLs, which seems like an open invitation to spammers.
This video explaining some of the changes, which focuses heavily on its integration with Google+, is already deeply unpopular, with 85 per cent of voters giving it a thumbs down at time of publication.
"Meet the new Youtube comments" - [VIDEO]