No more comments section on Youtube soon?
Advertisers are running away because inappropriate comments are spiraling out of control on that platform. penguinz0 breaks it down.
Advertisers are running away because inappropriate comments are spiraling out of control on that platform. penguinz0 breaks it down.
Nobody reads YouTube comments except the trolls themselves. Advertisers are worried about something that doesn't really exist. Though if it means fewer annoying ads on YouTube, let them worry I guess.
I read ALL my comment below my videos and respond as much as possible to all of them. I remove any inappropriate ones. And I have certain terms and words in my list of words that ensure the comment doesn't get posted. And it's not just small creators like me, Roberto Blake who has 400K subs reads comments and responds to most of them.
Yeah, it makes sense that the creators of videos themselves would look at the comments, but I think very few viewers do. Few enough that any concerned advertisers are basically worrying about nothing.
That and it's as simple as a creator going into their channel settings and typing up any words or expressions they deem to be inappropriate for their channel and comments with those words will get filtered out. And then those comments would basically be non existent. And YouTube could create a preset of key words for users and they just copy and paste. It's so easy to filter out unwanted comments on YouTube.
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Interesting, I didn't know those options existed. Thanks for letting me know.
A pleasure ;)
I read them though.. sometimes.. okay more than sometimes.
Really? Oh. I guess I have no idea what I'm talking about then.
But people know how comments sections work. Nobody would actually think an advertiser is endorsing anything written there. (Is that a better blanket statement?)
There are commercial videos without comment sections. (Means: comments are disabled.)
The quite controversial German band Rammstein doesn't allow comments on their videos too.
Also, there are options to have comments on videos moderated to a varying extent.
Good point. You're right about that. It's always an option for the video's creator to disable comments if they feel it's necessary or in their interests to do so.
Yes, better haha
I read the comments all the time, best engagement.
This is true!
exactly, it's pretty good about half the time!
Sounds like the consensus is I'm too cynical. That may be true.
I do read them too.
I even read the comments before watching the videos!
Uh oh, where will people who love to make disturbing comments go? Oh, where disturbing comments flood another site without censorship... Gulp.
Hahah.. gulp indeed
The only way to have comment sections that people want to engage in is to have community mods banning users from being able to make comments to given channels.
Maybe we're looking at the start of the end for YouTube?
I don't mind paying for youtube though..
YouTube *as we know it
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I don't think since content is moving from text to video
There are just too many trolls in that platform. People are literally abusing it.
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They said that it won't be all channels that will be affected with this, but that family vlogs, travel vlogs with kids and such, will be big time affected by this.
It sucks because comments are how channels thrive, discussions, ideas, interaction. It's a shame some people can't be respectful and abide by the NAP.
I actually came across that topic by a series of tweets from the Ballinger family.
Seems it's the little and honest ones who are being punished again.
Yup, totally. Roberto Blake did a whole live stream about it, it was very insightful. Apparently, the guy who discovered the issue is calling for people to co tact advertisers and asking people to boycot YouTube and then he has over 200 videos private. He seems kinda shady boots.
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I actually replied to Jess Ballinger in a similar way. ;o)
NAP is just passive-aggressive behaviour passing itself off as something politically correct.
Not if you include Non-violent communication in with it. Then there is no verbal or psychological abuse. I agree however that many people do not act physically aggressive but communicate in abusive ways, and that is not ok.
Passive-aggressiveness is an oppressive behaviour that doesn't have to relate with verbal or psychological abuse.
Actually, passive aggressive behaviour, depending on the way it is written or spoken, can be emotional, verbal or even psychological abuse. It is a form of abuse.
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That's what I said. We're on the same page, then.
You are suggesting that the Non-Aggression Principle is the same as passive-aggressive behaviour, which, in principle, it cannot be since NAP excludes all forms of aggression.
It shouldn't be, but it is, which is why I'm stricly against NAP. It just passes itself off as something politically correct.
And now we're back at the beginning of the conversation.
I love to troll the comments area 😅
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haha i'm the creep who never comments on youtube
I can no longer do live streams from a mobile phone because I don't have 1000 subs. They will still allow me to do livestreams from my computer though. Sometimes I don't like youtube.
I think what you tube has to do is tokenize their platform and make it steem-like so that comments would get nicer. @etherpunk
I was sad when netflix did this as well, with their reviews. They say it's advertisers, but I think we know it's just another step of changing the all inclusive aspect of the internet, sad.