Mark, Yes, this is common in my experience, and I would say just delete them.
My personal opinion is that the advantages of exposing these sorts of things, is out-weighed by the disadvantage of giving these people a platform. My most popular video on you tube was one I made about Amanda Congdon. It is cool because it has about 30,000 views, which isn't very impressive by youtube standards, but very impressive by Richard Show standards On my vlog I got supporting and positive comments, and on you tube the majority of them were like "nice tits" and a lot worse. I get an email from youtube when there is a comment, I read it, and if it's like the one above, I just delete it and that's it. I know this is not consistent with some people's philosophy about "free speech" or whatever, but, my feeling is I'm just not going to support that sort of thing. The Amanda video is about a talented artist. Of course there are people who are going to objectify her because of how she looks, discounting any her talent/skill. People (ok, men) do this all the time, and, maybe that's the way the world "is", but, it's not the way the Richard Show world is - my comment section on videos are not going to be a vehicle for that, so I'm deleting these immediately so long as I have the power to do so. Comments on my videos are a dictatorship - definitely a non-free speech zone ... if *I*, the high inquisitor of comments on my videos, find the comment offensive, non-constructive, or I just don't like the cut of their jib (whatever that means), then I delete it. ... Richard On 8/2/07, caminofilm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been active on youtube over the last month and have had two of my > videos featured in the travel and places category, My Byron Bay vid > and my currently featured Canberra Story on the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abMlHjO2nh4 > > I got to say I am sickened by the racist comments people have made > with regard to the Tent Embassy. I was going to wipe them all, but > decided against it. > > How have other people found the youtube 'community' Is this just > something I have to accept? > > Mark > > > -- Richard http://richardhhall.org Shows http://richardshow.org http://inspiredhealing.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
