(kinda)

According to TechCrunch the team at YouTube have a great sense of humour:

YouTube commentors are now presented with a button asking if they’d like to hear their comments read aloud before they are posted, in the hopes of preventing instances of accidental stupidity.

The feature is apparently in response to this XKCD comic -

I really hope this is true, and we can highly recommend XKCD if you’re unfamiliar with it – in fact if you want to make Chris your new best friend, buying him one of the Tshirts would probably be a good place to start!

Hats off to the YouTube guys & gals for this, I would be interested to see the effects on existing software such as Comment Snob – will some of us still feel the need to block out the… less desired comments or will the “Audio Preview” feature prove effective? I can’t help thinking that a lot of the “instances of accidental stupidity”, as TC so kindly put it, are due to people not taking the time to re-read their comment before posting it and I doubt they’ll take the time to listen to it before posting either. I love XKCD & their readers’s own take on this too,

SalsaShark Says:  Oh man. Idiocy recursion. This is a slippery slope, people.

It’s the comic that just keeps on giving!