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In response to "YouTube is disabling all comments on videos featuring young children as it attempts to head off an organised ring of pedophiles -- nm" by decline

It's a can't-win situation for YouTube. The videos are fine but now the monsters are in the comments section. -- (edited)

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Feb 28 '19, 10:28

this is only going to accelerate YouTube's post towards "becoming more like Netflix", with no comments anywhere. But they also need to figure out how to authenticate the commentors. They tried this by forcing the users to register through Google+, but that was a bust.

Parents posting these videos shouldn't be allowing commenting in the first place (it can be disabled) but regardless... YouTube is going to become so sanitized, it's going to look very different in just a couple of years.

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can youtube vids be limited in distribution like facebook posts? comments are expected from grandma, not 'uncle buck' -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 28, 10:59 1
- YouTube has 3 published settings: Private, Public, and Unlisted. - Mop Feb 28, 11:05
YouTube without comments will be vastly preferable to YouTube with comments. -- nm - TWuG Feb 28, 10:33 2
- does anyone actually read the comments anyway? -- nm - decline Feb 28, 10:35 1
  - As much as I dislike the idea of comments and feel they are useless, creators and YouTube itself must see a value in them. - Mop Feb 28, 10:37

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It's a can't-win situation for YouTube. The videos are fine but now the monsters are in the comments section. -- (edited)

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