YouTubes play back tool keeps a check on inane commenters

by stvalentine | October 11, 2008 at 05:45 am
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In a move to improve the quality of discussion on its pages, YouTube has launched a new feature, called "audio preview," to humiliate commenters by making them listen to their posts before they submit them.

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Jordan Yerman

The comic that inspired the feature is called xkcd:

Wow. It seems someone at YouTUBE took this comic seriously and decided to add an “Audio Preview” feature. Now you can hear your comments read aloud to you.

Unless the feature is a mandatory part of the commenting process, though, I don't see it being much use. After all, the average commenter on Youtube is clearly not inclined towards things like voluntary proofreading.

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