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I mean, technically, disabling youtube comments is a kind of localized censorship, just like telling a a Jehova's Witness to go away because you don't want to hear what they have to say is a kind of censorship. It's kind of silly to think disabling comments on your own video is an affront to free speech. People are free to make their own videos, write blog posts, email, shout from rooftops their responses to her videos. All of which I'm sure have been done. Here's what she is censoring: The irony of group C is delicious no matter how small it may or may not be. That said, we do to tend to associate Youtube with being able to <more directly give feedback, so it does give a very slight (and irrational) sense that she is stifling discussion. I also don't think she wants to have a discussion with people even on her own side, but not because the comments section is disabled. | |
Disabling comments is stupid from an uploader's perspective because from what I understand, the number of comments tie into how videos are rated and listed. More comments, good or bad, is good. Hence why people are always begging you to 'like comment subscribe'. She doesn't have to read the comments and for every comment (Good or bad) she receives it is basically money in the bank. If I see comments disabled on a video I'll just assume it's bad by default because why else would anyone do that unless they are a silly whiny baby who knows they are wrong and knows no one will like their videos? -Comments have been disabled for this post- | |
I can confirm that another Ashley does this.... (me) | |
Arguments that use "slippery slope" are themselves slippery slopes. Once we accept that "action A can lead to something worse and therefore action A should not be done" is logically valid than we are forced to notice that all actions can lead to something worse and therefore no actions should be done. Remember: | |
Sure, except she's running her video series and website purely on donations. No ads on videos means all that doesn't really matter. | |
I prefer reading the comments at the end of news articles from major news networks. There's always something completely unrelated and super racist. EDIT: | |
Of course the uploader of the video has the right to disable the comments. However they ought to know that there are a lot of people, including me, who will down rate the video because of this, regardless of the content of the video. | |
To be fair, the other side to that is any legitimate arguments against her are just lumped in with the sexist mouth breathers. Which is odd, in a world where people will argue against film critics for not giving a movie they like a high enough score, people actually wanting to discuss real social issues get an "if you don't like her then just don't watch her videos". Now personally I think gender representation in games is terrible at the moment. There needs to be something done about it. I also think Anita Sarkeesian is an absolute idiot. Just listing these tropes in either videogames or films isn't helpful. Give examples of good representation, explain why it's bad. Hell even the stuff about Crystal was interesting even though the reasoning behind shelving her was the same as the reason for shelving her male counterpart, a Star Fox game would just sell more and Nintendo like new IPs so much that they released a sequel to a 20 year old game last year to avoid coming up with one. She also just glances at the surface. Saying Summer in (500) Days of Summer is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl is missing the point. Yes, that's how we see her most of the time, because most of the time we're seeing her through the lens of Tom's memory. Closer to the end we see she was really unhappy and get an idea that there was way more going on there than we were able to see, because again the movie was Tom's story and he didn't want to see it. The entire point of the movie is that Tom's an idiot for falling in love with this imaginary person he created and saddled to a real girl and attaching all his hang ups to her. | |
The OP is a gay faggot. Good comic, I laughed. | |
Screwed up a quote thingy, please ignore | |
So you'd rather everyone run crying or cover there ears going "la la la can't hear you", then advocating they grow up? | |
No, that's called Youtube and if they're putting a public video up on a public website and disabling comments then yes, they're silencing discussion/debates/general nonsense about it. | |
You missed the comparison. There is a network literally called Public Broadcasting System. You've probably heard of it; it's pretty famous. There's also CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX, to name a few, that are publicly broadcast and free to watch. Why aren't you holding them to the same scrutiny? | |
This might be funny if it wasn't so damned true. | |
This is why I use plug ins to disable YouTube comments on my browser. Nothing pisses me off more than to watch a video on something I'm interested in and see a bunch of twattmuffins in the comments saying uneducated things | |
Because you can't create a forum to act as a medium for debate and conversation. You can't tell your audience "if you wish to converse on this issue, just go to X place" (X place being a heavily regulated place, preferably neutral territory). It's just bizarre at best, and abusive at worse, to comment about something incredibly controversial and decide "nope, some people are abusive so NO DISCUSSING THIS SHIT WITH ME". | |
But then answer me this, Youtube experts and Cory. Why are RATINGS disabled as well? If people aren't allowed to comment, why can't they at least leave a simple "yay" or "nay" as an expression of agreement or disagreement? I'll tell you why, because Anita is aware that most people disagree with her and she doesn't want to set off anyone's bullshit-alarms with a huge dislike bar (like so many shit Youtube videos). Call them "trolls" all you like, in the end they still fall into the pool of people who disagree. Anita is afraid of criticism, plain and simple. ALL her methods involve giving monologues/speeches or sermon-style presentations with zero room to respond or debate, this video isn't the only example where she has shut off feedback. Stop. Fucking. Defending. Her. Bullshit. Can't believe an Escapist artist has jumped onto the bandwagon. | |
That's rather antagonistic, don't you think? If every time I posted something relevant to my interests on youtube, an army of spiteful twits invariably materialised, well I'd probably disable feedback as well. In all forms. I just wouldn't want something that I'd made right next to a bunch of anonymous people calling me really rather terrible things. Maybe I'm scared of criticism, but I don't think so, I just don't think I'd like something I'd made used like that. You might not think like this, you might have a stronger backbone than myself, and clearly Anita, and that's cool. But I think that there's no *obligation* to let people who have played no helpful role in shaping your content and who will have no role in shaping your content have a voice anywhere near your content. And clearly YouTube agrees; they let people disable comments. You allow comments it if you like, and if the feedback is generally a pleasant echo chamber with some mild criticism most people will. If the feedback is 90% bile, then why bother? And why scold people when they don't bother? They're not performing censorship, not in any real sense. This is the internet, it's rather difficult to censor *anything* effectively. You can still have a perfectly good discussion about Anita's work on any other website (including this one) and those discussions are far more likely to be wholesome. | |
I advocate disabling comments. Why could that be? 1)Because your average youtuber rarely has anything of value to say. Freedom of speech & freedom of the press are great, in moderation. Does anyone else think that freedom of the press & freedom of privacy contradict eachother? | |
... and allow her to claim ignorance when asked to respond to her legitimate detractors. How could she know what her legitimate detractors are saying when she doesn't allow responses at all? Be honest. She's not debating. She's lecturing. She doesn't intend to foster conversation. She intends to tell us THE TRUTH!!!!!!!! No questions asked. Also, how would we know what her comments would eventually look like? She's allowed comments on one video ever. And that just happened to be the video that had its existence broadcast on 4chan, of all places, for 3 days. I think her comments may have been disproportionately negative after something like that. But then again, I'm using common sense. Weird, right? tl,dr: She's a hack who does hackish stuff. Just because stupid, powerless, bad people said mean things to her on the internet after someone pulled her from obscurity to the front page of /b doesn't mean she's some sort of hero. She got some disgusting comments on YouTube. That does not make her Salmon Rushdie. | |
I don't particularly like Sarkeesian and I agree. As much as I dislike how she discusses the topics and is not the right person to be doing this type of project, she still manages to be far more eloquent, cogent, and tolerable than the vast majority of the people who waste their time in her comments. But that's a pretty low bar as it is. Though from a practical stand point, it's not the best decision. I mean, from her position, it would be poetic justice to let the babies have their bottles in the comments as they end up inadvertently supporting her through their actions. After all, she's only this popular because of the controversial actions of some shitheads. Why not harvest that? | |
It's curious, actually. If TotalBiscuit is to be believed, the more bitching in the comments there is, the more Youtube's algorithm decide the video is worth front-paging, or featuring, or what have you. Comments, views, and likes, apparently, are what popularizes a video - and as TB says, the more people argue, against or for him, the more hits he gets, and the more money he makes. So Anita, disabling comments, has actually made it a detriment to her own popularity for the sake of quelling severely anti-intellectual discussion. I'd say that's a sacrifice if ever there was one: and, as she says, she does want people to talk about the video - on forums, on news sites, just not on the video - the one place where such debate would go to benefit her outreach. Worth thinking about. | |
Yes, this comic has made my night. So much sarcasm and so much truth have melded together into something amazingly funny. This comic right here sums up most of my feeling towards what youtube comments are. Sad though, since they could be so much more, you do see occasional really good debates, but the vocal minority really like to be heard shouting about how much they hate stuff. Still, comic made my night to be sure, super funny! | |
You know there is a reason I asked my main question in BOLD right? You didn't answer it in the slightest, you're just telling me the same thing everyone else in this thread is chanting - why she disabled comments. I KNOW why she disabled comments. I'm not talking about comments, I'm talking about ratings. There is no room for trolling or hurtful comments in a rating - only an indicator of how people feel about the video. Answer the bolded question. | |
I didn't mean to do that, I was warning against reading the comments on YahoO!News articles. in fact, don't read them at all. They'll just angry up the blood. | |
But they are not doing that, no attempt is made to infringe on the rights or space of others, there is nobody who has been stopped from saying what they wish to. | |
you realize the irony here, of-course? you're basically just saying nobody matters but me all your opinions are stupid, because lol reasons! and that's Exactly the sort of comment you get on youtube... | |
It always annoys me when comments are disabled, the worst part is you can't even write a complaint about it in the comments because the comments are disabled. Also, reading other peoples' comments on youtube makes me feel more intelligent. | |
So, you're saying this is Grey? :/ Well, he is British, so I guess that makes sense. :D Great Comic. Keep up the good work! | |
I was thinking more a bundle of sticks | |
You're not wrong in that people should not have to feel compelled to open the comments section for the sake of debate due to harassment etc. But that wasn't the reason why AS disabled the comments in some of her videos. | |
The difference for me is moderation. If after watching Jim's first episode, I commented with "Get raped Jim!" I would be banned or at least given a warning. So the next time, I wouldn't be there to add irrelevant comments. Freedom of speech or a lack of censorship doesn't mean a freedom from consequences. Besides, I always have the right to say something and walk away. Why can't I have that option on youtube? Not even the default setting. Gosh knows I use that setting all the time in League. There was a Zilean 2 days ago pretending to be an Islamic Bomber... I hit the mute option. | |
Anita doesn't know what she is talking about. Poor research and biased conculsions. I know I am right, because I am. So I am going to turn off comments and ratings to ths post because there is nothing to say. I am right. Now after that let me say. Anita markets herself and her approach to this subject as academic. As another youtuber said "In acadimia peer review is a essential part of the academic proccess". Without it all she is doing is presenting her opinion. | |
I think it is a coward way out to disable the comments for your video on yotube, which is a public forum after all. If you see some comments that are just full of shit and doesn't bring any value to the table: Just don't read them or just down vote them. I see many comments on YouTube that are full of shit but I don't bait an eye to them. | |
I can still however send you a private message, start a thread in which I write about your opinion and why I think it's wrong, I can make a blogpost, a Video reply or post on reddit or a similar platform: basically every form of communication available on the internet that requires more thought than writing "lol, aspie fag" in a box at the bottom of the page. | |
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