Listen To Your YouTube Comment Before Posting


	Listen To Your YouTube Comment Before Posting

Andy Greenberg

10-9-2008 3:48 PM

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google, youtube, xkcd, web comics

Andy Greenberg says:

Not sure which is weirder--that YouTube now gives commenters the opportunity to listen to their comments out loud in order to better filter their idiocy, or that this feature was taken from an idea in an uber-geeky web comic.

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