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General Category => Blog => Topic started by: kat on July 02, 2010, 03:11:11 AM

Title: YouTube comment forum section
Post by: kat on July 02, 2010, 03:11:11 AM
Well... since Google completely messed up video comments on YouTube with the recent 'populist' changes it's now become increasingly difficult to hold a question/answer conversation whenever someone ask something of one of the video tutorials posted to KatsBits channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/Quake3Bits). With that in mind a new section has been added to the forum (http://www.katsbits.com/smforum/index.php?board=8.0) that solves this problem by posting each tutorial video to it's own topic to which you can now comment if you have questions about anything you see in the videos; this is the only way to 'thread' replies as YouTube don't appear to be interested in returning comments to their previous format. Guest posting is on (and moderated) in that section but it's recommended you create an account as guests have limited features.
Title: Re: YouTube comment forum section
Post by: ratty redemption on July 03, 2010, 01:42:11 PM
good idea kat *thumbs up*
Title: Re: YouTube comment forum section
Post by: kat on July 03, 2010, 03:22:58 PM
I've just got to go through the tutorial vids now on YouTube itself and point each one to it's topic in here! I've no idea why they switched to this 'popular' system as it just makes the whole system a disorganised mess for tutorial videos - I read somewhere that it was just prevent spam comments as only popular posts would be promoted to the top.
Title: Re: YouTube comment forum section
Post by: ratty redemption on July 03, 2010, 03:40:24 PM
understood and although i don't like how youtube keep screwing up things that worked fine, are you aware if you scroll down comments there is usually a link to another page which contains all the comments for that video, although i'm not sure what order they are in.
Title: Re: YouTube comment forum section
Post by: kat on July 03, 2010, 05:26:55 PM
Yes, they're listed chronologically. Only trouble is you can't see the video you're commenting on (other than a couple of thumbnails). :-\
Title: Re: YouTube comment forum section
Post by: ratty redemption on July 03, 2010, 05:36:20 PM
understood and good point.