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> That feature would be abused like hell. It would if done naievely; one seemingly-simple fix for all the problems I've seen in this thread: have multiple vide

> That feature would be abused like hell. It would if done naievely; one seemingly-simple fix for all the problems I've seen in this thread: have multiple video versions as an explicit part of the API. You can link to a specific version, youtube can clearly show a flag saying "there's a newer version of this video available, do you want to watch that instead?", it can show comments and likes for all versions in one place (with a badge saying "this comment was made on an old version" if appropriate), etc

codetrotter 8y ago
Sorry but that’s just straight up stupid. Comments on YouTube are a bad experience already due to low quality, so I mostly don’t read them, but when I do read them I don’t want to additionally have to pay attention to whether we watched the same video or not. And that’s what it is — a different video. Different version, different video. If you change the video, reupload it if it’s important with a title and description that specifies what you changed. Then make the old video unlisted and point to the new version in that description plus pin a comment about it.
- Spare_account 8y ago
  You've contributed to the discussion, but your opening gambit was inflammatory and I respectfully suggest that you tone it down in future. Just thought you should know that I was close to ignoring you outright because of your tone.
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- Shish2k 8y ago
  > Different version, different video. In the context we're talking about, do you believe the comments on video A (10 minutes of maths lecture with a typo in one of the digrams) would be hugely different from the comments on video B (10 minutes of maths lecture with that typo corrected); so much so that it's worth throwing out all the early comments and starting from scratch? Or are you thinking of some other use-case? > I don’t want to additionally have to pay attention to whether we watched the same video or not. Good news for you then! Making "video version number" part of the API means that you can filter those out programatically too :)

codetrotter 8y ago

Sorry but that’s just straight up stupid. Comments on YouTube are a bad experience already due to low quality, so I mostly don’t read them, but when I do read them I don’t want to additionally have to pay attention to whether we watched the same video or not. And that’s what it is — a different video. Different version, different video. If you change the video, reupload it if it’s important with a title and description that specifies what you changed. Then make the old video unlisted and point to the new version in that description plus pin a comment about it.

Spare_account 8y ago
You've contributed to the discussion, but your opening gambit was inflammatory and I respectfully suggest that you tone it down in future. Just thought you should know that I was close to ignoring you outright because of your tone.
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Shish2k 8y ago
> Different version, different video. In the context we're talking about, do you believe the comments on video A (10 minutes of maths lecture with a typo in one of the digrams) would be hugely different from the comments on video B (10 minutes of maths lecture with that typo corrected); so much so that it's worth throwing out all the early comments and starting from scratch? Or are you thinking of some other use-case? > I don’t want to additionally have to pay attention to whether we watched the same video or not. Good news for you then! Making "video version number" part of the API means that you can filter those out programatically too :)