Youtube improvements

[davidn]

I noticed at the beginning of the week that Youtube have now added comment ratings to the site. It's a nice idea - on most sites that allow comments, this gives some idea of the worth of a reply by allowing users to vote them either "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". But given Youtube's population I think my idea is rather better:


(NB. Unfortunately but perhaps not surprisingly, that comment is real. It's on a video of the moon landing, in which most of the comments are giant leaps for sheer idiocy.)

I don't know if I've just noticed it more recently, but people like this are spilling over into everywhere even though that site and Myspace (truly the trailer park at the back of the Internet) have done quite a good job of rounding up the people who would lose a battle of wits with a glass of orange juice. It makes me wonder how they use keyboards without accidentally eating them.

"Astronomically stupid" would have been a cleverer pun, actually.

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[starfishchris.livejournal.com]

Some parts work (the reason why they get on these places and click 'Add Comment' in the first place) but it's simply buggy brains.

Lesson 1: If you think of a good pun at the end of writing an LJ entry, pretend you thought of it to start with ;)

[kjorteo]

http://xkcd.com/202/

Also, "UR an idiot leave america cause ur obviously too stupid to be here, anyway i do believe the titanic was made of iron, not metal" is the single greatest actual comment I've ever found on YouTube. I mean, seriously, how do you top something like that?

[davidn]

That strip was actually what inspired me to check the actual "moon landing" video - it was pretty distressing to find out that it was genuinely like that.

And that quote is going to be pretty difficult to beat, but something will doubtless come along eventually...

[aristophains.livejournal.com]

The wordplay of 'lunatic' might also have worked.

I was irked by a YouTube comment recently.

A: 'Hindsight is so beautifully 20/20'
B: 'Could you please rephrase that? I dunno what hindsight is.'

In the time it took B to type that remark, he could have gone to dictionary.com and looked up hindsight. Then his comment could have been: 'I didn't know what hindsight meant, so I went and looked it up. Thanks for helping me to learn something new today. Good point, by the way.' Granted, he said 'please', but he was still essentially asking someone to cater to his ignorance, and that to me is an attitude problem.

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQc7KcENb70) was the clip. Most enjoyable; I remember getting it on video back when it was on TV, and rewinding it over and over.

[davidn]

Yes, judging from his initial comment he seems a bit thick even though his comments are actually coherent - clearly it isn't a reliable indicator for everything.