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" <[email protected]> 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 > -- > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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