As if I wasn’t sick enough of all of the worthless shit showing up around Facebook, I go to YouTube this morning and see that they’ve begun comment rating, similar to the system Digg uses. I have no problem with Digg; in fact, I use it quite often. However, their comment rating system works for Digg, not YouTube. Now I’m going to end up reading the same garbage everytime I go to watch a video. I thought YouTube had a great system with the chronological comments. At least when I would go to watch a favorite video of mine, I could have the satisfaction of reading the usually stubborn opinions of fanboys, or perhaps the ridiculous, often close-minded sentiments of your typical redneck. Now comments like these are going to immediately be sifted directly to the bottom, never to be seen again by the general public. Unfortunate, really.
I took a look at the YouTube blog to see if I could find any mention of these new changes, but as of right now nothing has been mentioned. However, they do mention plans to incorporate ‘InVideo’ ads into some of their videos. I heard a bit about this the other day, but wasn’t particularily interested in it. I’m not quite sure what they plan on doing with this, but they do mention that they’re doing this to “improve the experience with [the user] in mind.” I feel like it’s too early for me to even have an opinion on the decision, but I don’t like it.
On another note, Syracuse fans rejoice.
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