11.04.2009

The Power to Block Less-Than-Civil Profanity-Laden YouTube Comments

Although I know many schools block YouTube access, there are still some great resources available there and some schools that do allow access. Wouldn't it be nice to take advantage of those resources without rude, profanity-laden comments?

I like this comment by Adam Pash, editor of Lifehacker:
"When you're on the Web, you appreciate a little civility. Let's face it: Many YouTube comments are hardly literate, let alone civil."
--Enter Stage Right--  ANOTHER Firefox Add-on to save the day!

I came across this great review today by Rick Broida of PC World of the YouTube Comment Snob Firefox Add-on.  This easy-to-install add-on allows you to block YouTube comments that appear in your browser in  by amount of misspellings (you set the amount), comments that have no capital letters, comments that have only capital letters, comments that do not start with a capital letter, comments that have excessive punctuation,
comments that have excessive capitalization, or comments that include profanity.

Although this add-on might not catch everything, it sure will help. I'm getting it on all our home computers right now!

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