YouTube Goes Digg Style
YouTube August 23rd, 2007 - By Haochi
YouTube now has Digg-style commenting system, which allows registered YouTube users to vote on the comments and have the options to choose what comments to display.
It surprises me that they are launching this feature even though it’s not working all that well. For instance, when you choose “Show: great (+10 or more)”, it will display all the comments, with the non-qualified ones collapsed instead of displaying only the “Great” ones, and you will have to go through page to page to find them.
Sometimes you just can’t help calling YouTube a ripper. I am looking forward to see what the Digg mob would say. You know, it’s going to be priceless. :D
UPDATE: Diggers reactions:
- There’s only one problem: With the types of messages on YouTube everything is going to be buried. - Amablue
- Thumbs up comments are going to be a rarity, that’s for sure. - FoxOrian
- Next, we’ll see GIVE 10 OF MY COMMENTS A THUMBS UP OR YOU WILL BE KILLED IN YOUR SLEEP. - juicebag
[thanks Sohil]
August 23rd, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Where did you find a video with so many “greats” comments? I’m unable to find any video with at least a comment ranked (badly or goodly) more than 2 times…
August 23rd, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Go to the home page and click on any of the “featured” videos. :)
August 23rd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Damned OK, I got the page in French and even the featured videos don’t get many ranked comments
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Was Digg the first one to use thumbs up and down? I noticed Yahoo Answers and other sites use it, but I’m not sure who was first. Does it even matter?
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Digg was definitely not the first site to come up with this. I remember Reddit using this before Digg, though I think Reddit wasn’t the first either. I was using similar method myself with text links ^ and v to allow people to promote and demote items in the list (http://web.archive.org/web/20010424142528/http://alkos.chat.ru/yellowpage.html). I don’t know however who used thumbs up and down for this purpose first, it will take some research to find this out. I do think it matters, because too often wrong people are credited for inventing things.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:54 pm
It’s not only the thumbs up/down that I am talking about, it’s the whole thing. If you compare Digg and YouTube side-by-side, you can see that they look ridiculously similar. The new YouTube commenting system also included the “Show:” dropdown selector, which is also similar to the one Digg has.