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Doofy · Nov 24, 2010, 01:01 PM

That's it. My brain is about to implode from having to look at teenagers babble on about crap which is neither interesting or amusing.

So, how to turn off the comments on YouTube? Not for videos which I've upped, but for everyone else's videos.
There used to be an option for this but I can't find it since the recent makeover.

Stogieman · Nov 24, 2010, 02:00 PM

Yeah, don't scroll down.

Doofy · Nov 24, 2010, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Stogieman

Yeah, don't scroll down.

Doesn't really work on a big-ass screen.

brassplayersrock² · Nov 24, 2010, 02:36 PM

Uncle Doof, if you're using safari, download the extension "shut up" by Ricky Romero.

Shut Up — based on the shutup.css custom user stylesheet by Steven Frank — lets you hide and show the comments section on many popular websites.

The button to toggle "shut up" on and off, gets put by the address bar, and looks like a light.

Doofy · Nov 24, 2010, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

Uncle Doof, if you're using safari, download the extension "shut up" by Ricky Romero.

Good thinking. But I'm on 10.4.11, so can't install Safari 5, which is required for those extensions.

However... if it's based on a custom stylesheet then I should be able to make one to do the same job.

Cheers.

Person Man · Nov 24, 2010, 03:23 PM

Ah, YouTube comments. A special brand of stupid. And the problem is not just in English. The same stupidity infects Greek, Spanish, and German comments, as well. And probably other languages I can't speak either.

Doc HM · Nov 24, 2010, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Person Man

Ah, YouTube comments. A special brand of stupid. And the problem is not just in English. The same stupidity infects Greek, Spanish, and German comments, as well. And probably other languages I can't speak either.

All YouTube comments the world over are actually written in a special language called F**kwit. In a similar fashion to newspeak it is deliberately crafted to make it impossible to construct sensible arguments. Such comments, written in F**kwit are know as F**kwittery.

YouTube automatically translates f**kwittery into your native language, in a TARDIS stylee.

Oisín · Nov 24, 2010, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Doc HM

All YouTube comments the world over are actually written in a special language called F**kwit. In a similar fashion to newspeak it is deliberately crafted to make it impossible to construct sensible arguments. Such comments, written in F**kwit are know as F**kwittery.

YouTube automatically translates f**kwittery into your native language, in a TARDIS stylee.

So … when I write a YouTube comment, am I actually typing in F**kwit, or does YouTube first process all comments, translating them into F**kwit, and then do an on-the-fly translation back into your native language (except for comments that appear to be written in Foreign, of course)?

The Final Dakar · Nov 24, 2010, 04:36 PM

I'm sure all your Youtube comments smell like roses, Oisin.

besson3c · Nov 24, 2010, 04:46 PM

Oisín · Nov 24, 2010, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar

I'm sure all your Youtube comments smell like roses, Oisin.

Tulips, actually.

I don’t much care for roses.

Doofy · Nov 24, 2010, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

Tulips, actually.

I don’t much care for roses.

That's a bit racist, isn't it?

Oisín · Nov 24, 2010, 07:24 PM

I am a rose, I’m allowed. We’re taking back the word.

brassplayersrock² · Nov 24, 2010, 07:39 PM

A blue rose?

Oisín · Nov 24, 2010, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

A blue rose?

Yeah, so? Are blue roses now supposed to be worth less than white roses? Now who’s being racist?

imitchellg5 · Nov 24, 2010, 08:01 PM

This thread could fit well into a YouTube comment thread.

Oisín · Nov 24, 2010, 08:14 PM

Nah. It’s too well-spelt, and there’s not nearly enough profanity and swearwords.

imitchellg5 · Nov 24, 2010, 08:21 PM

Dud, STFU you idoit.

besson3c · Nov 24, 2010, 08:37 PM

Oisin does have very nice genitals.

imitchellg5 · Nov 24, 2010, 08:51 PM

Touch my junk and I'll have you arrested.

brassplayersrock² · Nov 24, 2010, 08:57 PM

...and THAT folks, end the thread. Lets all say thank you to Mitch.

Doc HM · Nov 25, 2010, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by Oisín

So … when I write a YouTube comment, am I actually typing in F**kwit, or does YouTube first process all comments, translating them into F**kwit, and then do an on-the-fly translation back into your native language (except for comments that appear to be written in Foreign, of course)?

Yes. Probably. Or Not.

Anyway STFU. My friends dad, who works for NASA, says you're obviously photoshopped.

Laminar · Nov 25, 2010, 09:51 AM

Your all dumb.

Person Man · Nov 25, 2010, 11:46 PM

xexexexexe.

Giati den mas deixneis kana upskirt?

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ort888 · Nov 26, 2010, 01:22 AM

It's not just YouTube... comments just about everywhere are mind bogglingly terrible.

Spheric Harlot · Nov 26, 2010, 02:39 AM

Not universally.

YouTube really does have its own brand of belligerently malignant stupid.

Doc HM · Nov 26, 2010, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by ort888

It's not just YouTube... comments just about everywhere are mind bogglingly terrible.

I see what you did there.

Stogieman · Nov 26, 2010, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by ort888

It's not just YouTube... comments just about everywhere are mind bottling terrible.

Fixed

brassplayersrock² · Nov 26, 2010, 12:39 PM

Thank you for linking to a youtube with only 3 comments stogieman

ort888 · Nov 26, 2010, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Doc HM

I see what you did there.

I wasn't trying to be ironic. I'm talking about the comments on random sites like CNN, my local newspaper, DIGG, etc...

Some places are way better than others, but the overall level of idiocy displayed in online comments is frightening. Who are these people?

Seriously, go to CNN.com, click on ANY story and read the first 10 comments.

Spheric Harlot · Nov 26, 2010, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by ort888

Seriously, go to CNN.com, click on ANY story and read the first 10 comments.

A random sampling of stories on the US CNN site reveals quite a bit of Teh Dumb, but not NEARLY as viciously moronic as any YouTube video I've ever come across (that had more than, say, 1,000 hits, natch).