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YouTubes play back tool keeps a check on inane commenters
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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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at 06:21 on October 11th, 2008
The comic that inspired the feature is called xkcd:
Source: blag.xkcd.com
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.