Well, further to our discussion about Haters on Youtube - sure enough, I posted a video yesterday that got a few hundred views and I got a really nasty comment from someone with an anonymous account who just wanted to insult anyone who posts a video. I nuked it, and blocked him, but I couldn't find the delete button in my brain. Feature request.
For me, the solution is to disable comments totally on videos where I appear. If it's a video of something else, fine - but I don't want to court personal abuse. I had enough of that at school from the seniors who were in charge of our dormitories, thank you very much. That's what it took me back to. I'm tacking 'talk to me @twittervlog.tv" onto the end of all my videos now - knowing that these idiots won't make the effort to abuse anyone on another site. It's a limitation to developing conversations and connections on YouTube, but not a dealbreaker. It's as good a compromise as I can find at the moment. I also wrote to one of the two guys who started Youtube - the tech guy, Steve Chen - asking him to add a "Mark as inappropriate" link alongside the "Mark as spam" link in the Comments section, so that serial Haters could get tracked and deleted. At present, there's no comeback. I'm sure this would make a lot of people more comfortable about using YouTube, since that seems to be a big concern to videobloggers - how do any of you feel? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/
