Cleaning up YouTube by ignoring user comments
CBS now stands for Cleaner, Better, Site
For those of you who think that YouTube is becoming too corporate, here is a story that helps bolster your case.
excerpts from the New York Times:
One of YouTube's corporate partners is changing the ways that users comment on those videos.
… The comments on many of the videos posted by CBS have now been moved to a separate page; instead of sample comments underneath the videos, a link to "view all comments" takes users to a separate Web page where they can read comments without watching the video at the same time.
"We just want to make sure the front page is a little bit cleaner," [Quincy Smith, the president of CBS Interactive] said… "We thought it was a better user experience, and it gives us a second to weed out the completely unuseful comments."
CBS is not the only content provider on YouTube to filter out "spam" messages from the user comments; representatives from YouTube confirmed that the Web site will often use such filters if complaints are raised.
The CBS deal with YouTube … has so far yielded positive results for the network. According to an announcement the companies made on Nov. 21, CBS videos were among some of the most-viewed content on the site during the first month of partnership.
Posted by admin on December 11th, 2006 :: Filed under Internet TV
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