Looks like YouTube had a change of heart and decided to change their comment system back to chronological ordering rather than using a thumbs up/down rating system. You can still sort comments based on rating, which is actually decent, so it looks like they’re not abandoning the idea entirely.
In a recent post in their blog, they say that they’re going to allow video creators to enable the ratings system instead of the chronological ordering, but they haven’t put that into place yet. Oh well. It’s probably going to be worthless anyway. How great is it going to be when I look at one video and the comments are chronologically ordered, and then I look at another and the comments are sorted by rating. Probably pretty awful, that’s how great. Of course, I’m sure there are some relatively simple ways to solve this problem that they seem to be having, but seeing as they overlooked how terrible their ‘great’ idea was going to be last time, I’m not really expecting them to get it right anytime soon. Perhaps I should just be optimistic.
On a side note, Rush, the greatest band of all-time, celebrated two birthdays over the weekend. Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the release of Hold Your Fire, arguably the best record released during their ’synthesizer era’, and Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Signals, the album that basically kicked off the synthesizer era. Both are excellent albums, I highly suggest you give them a listen. You probably won’t like them though.
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