YouTube going nuts

28 February 2019, 05:08 PM

Bernard

YouTube going nuts

YouTube is going to ban all comments on any video with children. I suppose if they had an ingrown toenail they'd chop their foot off.

Sheesh, this is going to roil a lot of people and it's totally unnecessary.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47408969

28 February 2019, 05:59 PM

Axtremus

I am OK with that, actually.
It just means people link to YouTube from discussion boards and other social sites.
I go to YouTube to watch videos, almost never read the comments.

28 February 2019, 06:32 PM

Piano*Dad

How do they define a child?

28 February 2019, 07:09 PM

Bernard

quote:
Originally posted by Axtremus:
I am OK with that, actually.
It just means people link to YouTube from discussion boards and other social sites.
I go to YouTube to watch videos, almost never read the comments.

I watch a lot of videos from allotment gardeners in the UK and always read the comments. Some of them have children and sometimes the children appear in the videos.

It's a shame that a big tech company can't do better than this sort of blanket prohibition.

01 March 2019, 03:53 PM

Steve Miller

For whatever reason, YouTube comments have always been the worst. I don't read them.

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01 March 2019, 04:04 PM

Bernard

I guess it depends what sort of videos one watches. I can't think of any untoward comments on any of the gardening channels I subscribe to. They are often funny, encouraging, enlightening, and educational.

01 March 2019, 05:28 PM

Steve Miller

I usually watch music videos, some of them amateur. The comments can be brutal.

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