You have the right to set the tone and the environment for your videos posts. You can moderate or delete hate-filled comments because there will be one distinctive feature about them.
The intent is to cause hurt and pain. You are not removing another another point of view or a personal illumination. The intent of the comment is to hurt you/the video in a mean spirited manner. These type of comments feel like the on-line equivalent of the bad forms of Graffiti(in this case paint taggers.) Negative attention is better than no attention at all. This is different from someone who disagrees with you and uses one of the seven dirty words to emphasis the depth of their disagreement. I've let those stand if they have made a viable point. You are not required to boost their little "petards" by allowing the comments to stand and hurt others. You do no service to your viewers who have watched the video, gained something from it and then have to wade through the comment crap. Sane people will not do that. Nuke 'em! Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com Word History: The French used pétard, "a loud discharge of intestinal gas," for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. "To be hoist by one's own petard," a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means "to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices." http://www.thefreedictionary.com --- In [email protected], "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 >
