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<div>At the moment, my challenge is mostly around the "crass, defamatory, bullying" comments -- defining what crosses the line and developing a workflow to address them.</div>
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<div>On the workflow side, YouTube offers some help, but not a lot. There's no way for users to flag offensive comments (just spam). And there's no way to delegate comment management. Only the main account holder can delete comments or ban users. </div>
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<div>On the definition of offensive… well, we're having a meeting about that. </div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Stephanie Hatch <<a href="mailto:hatch_s@mit.edu">hatch_s@mit.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:37 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Peter Pinch <<a href="mailto:pdpinch@mit.edu">pdpinch@mit.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>"<a href="mailto:social-media@mit.edu">social-media@mit.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:social-media@mit.edu">social-media@mit.edu</a>>, webpub <<a href="mailto:webpub@mit.edu">webpub@mit.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: YouTube comment policy? - Stephanie's take<br>
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<div>I think this is a question that deservedly remains in reply-all mode, while other questions are posed to the groups but receive private answers. Many of you manage department YouTube accounts, however, so it makes sense. Feel free to also pose questions
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<div>Leaving comments "on" for your YouTube page makes it more social. I recommend allowing others to start and continue discussions, which are provoked by the content within the video. This means ideas are flowing, opinions are being formed, and your content
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<div>Then there are the crass, defamatory, bullying comments. I do think you should be moderating to some degree. Take enough time to click on "report" or "spam" next comments in these categories. </div>
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<div>Apart from those sorts of comments, negative comments are usually a good thing, believe it or not. You want to spark discussion. You want it to be real. If you've got mixed feelings, read my blog post: <a href="http://mitsha.re/dndrule">http://mitsha.re/dndrule</a>
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<div>Our default is comments on. I can't give you an exact number but they can turn comments off on a per video basis. Of our 9,651 public videos, 1,064 have comments turned off.
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<div>We're allowing comments on YouTube but as I mentioned before, not moderating.</div>
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<div>Which is your default -- comments or no comments? Do you know how many users opt out?</div>
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<div>I'd also be curious to know if you're allowing comments on your YouTube videos (I guess I could just look).</div>
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<div>That being said, as the TechTV admin, I monitor all site comments daily to remove obvious spam comments and any obscenities to keep the site clean, but I don't sensor (that is left up to the owner of the video if they so choose).</div>
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<div>Not sure if that helps for YouTube. We do have a subset of our vids posted there but I haven't been diligent of monitoring the comments there.</div>
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