Scratch

My personal opinion is that links to Youtube  should not be allowed, full stop (or 'period' in America).

Youtuberepeat does not block inappropriate videos, and you can't expect people to watch an entire video to see if it's inappropriate and then report it. Often a video may have a rude word just once in the video and the rest is fine, but do moderators have time to watch the whole video just to see? With an image it's easy, you just look at it... But a lot of Youtube videos are fairly long.

Moderators have enough on their hands moderating Scratch, and now they also have to inspect Youtube videos for inappropriateness?

If you can make it so that it links to Youtuberepeat, I think you may as well just make it so that it automatically says (link to Youtube removed) or something...

WeirdF wrote:

My personal opinion is that links to Youtube  should not be allowed, full stop (or 'period' in America).

Youtuberepeat does not block inappropriate videos, and you can't expect people to watch an entire video to see if it's inappropriate and then report it. Often a video may have a rude word just once in the video and the rest is fine, but do moderators have time to watch the whole video just to see? With an image it's easy, you just look at it... But a lot of Youtube videos are fairly long.

Moderators have enough on their hands moderating Scratch, and now they also have to inspect Youtube videos for inappropriateness?

If you can make it so that it links to Youtuberepeat, I think you may as well just make it so that it automatically says (link to Youtube removed) or something...

It's true that it is an extra burden on the moderators.  But we think that Youtube videos add a lot of value - there's some very cool stuff out there!  That's why it's important that if you post a Youtube link that you make sure that the video is appropriate for all ages - it's your responsibility.

If we find that the feature is being abused at some point- we can reconsider if we should be allowing it.

Perhaps there could be a custom scratch version of youtube repeat or something?

Jonathanpb wrote:

there's a rule about not posting YouTube videos there (which can be harsh for some).

Really? I've been there for a long time but I didn't know it until now! 

Last edited by mathematics (2011-01-08 01:25:00)

Maximum200 wrote:

That's a good idea actully! I should stop posting videos on YouTube! JK i stoped a long time ago!

For a second there, I thought you were going to migrate to YouTubeRepeat. Repeat only shows videos, and not letting you upload them to Repeat, Youtube is for that.

LS97 wrote:

Just interested, did you achieve the link replacement with a simple censor,
change "www.youtube" to "www.youtuberepeat"
or did you use more complicated PHP added to the post code?

Just a simple censor replacement.

Silentube or Quietubewould be better, but I guess this is a big improvement anyway 

WeirdF wrote:

My personal opinion is that links to Youtube  should not be allowed, full stop (or 'period' in America).

Youtuberepeat does not block inappropriate videos, and you can't expect people to watch an entire video to see if it's inappropriate and then report it. Often a video may have a rude word just once in the video and the rest is fine, but do moderators have time to watch the whole video just to see? With an image it's easy, you just look at it... But a lot of Youtube videos are fairly long.

Moderators have enough on their hands moderating Scratch, and now they also have to inspect Youtube videos for inappropriateness?

If you can make it so that it links to Youtuberepeat, I think you may as well just make it so that it automatically says (link to Youtube removed) or something...

Don't skip to a conclusion after you read a word. The only reason why it's there is because you can't see comments, and it repeats, so the mods can check because it loops.

Good idea. 

What is youtuberepeat?

Paddle2See wrote:

mathematics wrote:

hmnwilson wrote:

Cool, but Youtuberepeat might be confusing since its intended purpose is to loop the video, not hide the comments.

This.

When I first saw the topic name, I was wondering why it's "YouTube Repeat" but not "quietube". I remembered that I've seen Paddle2See recommending others to use "quietube".

Two reasons...Quietube has a button that leads users right to the original Youtube site...with the comments displayed.  And the URL modifications for Quietube require a prefix format which seemed more prone to error.  YouTubeRepeat is not ideal...but it seemed like the best choice for now.

You know you CAN take the repeat off youtube repeat to go back to the original video, right?

Still not done in the TBG