Re: Fwd: Tanath9 sent you a message: Comments disabled?

[Bryen Yunashko <a11yrocks bryen com>]

We turned it off after getting spammers and strollers almost immediately after posting the first video. A testament to the popularity of GNOME :+)

In any case moderation on a site like YouTube is a time suck and not worth the time of all of us who volunteer and actually have a life. (Yes, I've heard rumors that some of you have lives.)

Bryen

On Apr 28, 2011 6:51 AM, "Allan Day" <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
> Stormy Peters wrote:
>> I didn't set comments to disabled
>
> No, I did. :)
>
>> but I find I don't feel strongly one way or the other.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> The YouTube channel wasn't meant as a delivery platform. It was
> primarily intended as a hosting solution, with the videos then being
> embedded in our websites.
>
> I originally disabled the comments (Bryen helped, I think) because we
> were getting comments and we didn't have the capacity to effectively
> moderate. And I didn't want negative comments sitting below our videos.
>
> The problem with turning comments on is that we need to moderate
> reliably and consistently. It's an ongoing commitment.
>
> Allan
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