How cool would it be...

[WolfWraith]

if YouTube implemented a similar feature to Steam like the 1 in the attachment but added it to the comments and it shows either % or how much of a video each person has viewed? It could help show how many comments are actually genuine.

 

[Restart]

You mean total videos viewed? If that, they removed it way back in 2009.

 

[WolfWraith]

You mean total videos viewed? If that, they removed it way back in 2009.

No, but I had no idea that feature existed in the past actually. I mean say I comment on a YouTuber's video it says next to my comment or name " - viewed 95% of video" or " - watched up to 08:00" or " - watched 5 mins" kind of thing. Getting sick of seeing top comments sections filled from people who've barely watched the video.

 

[TheDoctor_13]

It's a interesting proposal, but I don't really know why it should be there. I mean yes it helps to see if they gave proper feedback or something and not just comment before they watch. However your situation, I don't see how it would stop that, unless youtube filters out comments given a certain criteria, not sure how I feel about that.

 

[WolfWraith]

It's a interesting proposal, but I don't really know why it should be there. I mean yes it helps to see if they gave proper feedback or something and not just comment before they watch. However your situation, I don't see how it would stop that, unless youtube filters out comments given a certain criteria, not sure how I feel about that.

It'd help the community primarily from the YouTuber's fanbase to dictate whether the comment was genuine or not. Instead of a comment that hit top comments just cause THAT persons fanbase upvoted it for the hell of it or instead of a comment saying "this video was s**t" or faking full on feedback when they haven't watched it. It's nothing but an advantage.
Filtering out comments isn't somethin I had thought of but it could be something they added to the community section in creator studio or even part of the drop down menu where you select new comments or top comments. I wouldn't want them auto filtering though unless it worked really well because sometimes a video might not load properly and it's easier to inform the creator via comments but if you didn't watch the right % the comment would be filtered out which would then render the original use of it pointless lol

 

[RedFox]

It's an interesting feature, though it would mean more server usage for YouTube since if they did it user side it could be abused quite easily.

 

[WolfWraith]

It's an interesting feature, though it would mean more server usage for YouTube since if they did it user side it could be abused quite easily.

Yeah but they already have the top fans feature which monitors for user/subscriber engagement to begin with, that stat already exists, alls they need to do is get it to display on the comment, not straight away but it can be done.