07.09.2009, 02:08 AM | #1 |
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A few weeks back, videos started getting deleted from a few of my favorite channels for having a decent amount of profanity in them. Sometime today I'm assuming, Youtube decided to change any curse words present on the comments underneath a video to a bunch of unnecessary asterisks. I feel like I'm on a disney forum or some shit. In case you have yet to see this for yourself, here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N78JfTy-OU
Now, thankfully, you can change this by clicking the "options" link next to the comments header and un-checking hide profanity in comments. Why youtube would think that its users would want profanity hidden in the first place is beyond me. |
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07.09.2009, 02:10 AM | #2 |
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Youtube keeps getting lamer and lamer, either way. I thought the whole point of the "voting" system on comments was to delete unneccassarily mean/vulgar comments on videos. Obviously, if someone got on the lion king video and said "fuck this gay shit", it'd probably get tons of thumbs down... yeah, anyway...
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07.09.2009, 02:14 AM | #3 |
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This is what happens when cool stuff goes commerical.
As I was saying to someone the other day, if you want to appeal to a whole bunch of people, you have to start with those who are easily offended.
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07.10.2009, 08:47 AM | #4 |
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I don't have the asterisks, I guess it depends on the country of the viewer.
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07.10.2009, 07:44 PM | #5 |
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I don't see any asterisks either.
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07.10.2009, 07:48 PM | #6 |
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not everyone is profane
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07.10.2009, 07:54 PM | #7 |
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not everyone is propane
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07.10.2009, 08:05 PM | #8 |
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and not everyone is against pane
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07.10.2009, 08:21 PM | #9 |
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I saw someone call another a f*cktard (my asterisk) and didn't click anything.
It's a pain that so many videos have been pulled from there. Used to be a nice way to hear a song without having to open soulseek and download it. Oh well.
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07.11.2009, 02:08 PM | #10 |
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Youtube just keeps getting worse, they're removing so many videos now.
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07.11.2009, 02:10 PM | #11 |
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There are barely any King Crimson videos on youtube now.
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