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		sodiumjoe on Sept 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative ... I've actually found that the 'promoted' comments [Edit: which I assume are promoted by voting and algorithm.] on YouTube videos are generally either pretty entertaining or informative. I was surprised by this after consciously completely ignoring YT comments for a long time.

DanBC on Sept 29, 2011 [–]

The promoted comments are usually worth reading. The first few times I saw them I made the mistake of trying to read the rest. They were still awful.

Adam Buxton and Bug (http://www.bugvideos.co.uk/) have a great thing where he reads YouTube videos. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-WBaSNrTQ)

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