You Only Came Here Because YouTube is Down (again)

August 27, 2007

You only came here because YouTube is down, again. Right?

Maybe they’re fixing the stupid comments functionality.

{ 27 comments… read them below or add one }

1 sukatra August 27, 2007 at 12:36 pm: Well, it’s not down right now, but it’s just no fun waking up and seeing that nalts responded to one of your comments and then you just can’t find it anywhere!!! So I came to your blog for solace and all I found was this lame entry.

I’m kidding. You know I kid.

It’s a good thing that there’s no thumbs up/thumbs down on this thing because I’d probably get rated out of existence for this comment. Can you tell I’m bitter about the new comment system? Damn. I should learn to hide my emotions better.
2 leeham August 27, 2007 at 1:41 pm: You were wrong actually

P.s. hi Nalts
3 tripplehelix August 27, 2007 at 1:57 pm: It’s all dead sir!… I need to talk to you, we need to get this thing done. The site is near complete
4 Matt August 27, 2007 at 2:41 pm: It would appear that all they’ve done, besides generate a lot of internal server errors, is manage to break the comments section even more. Right now it seems to be hit or miss whether the comment servlet will show anything or not.
5 sukatra August 27, 2007 at 2:53 pm: Okay, youtube IS down now, and yes, that’s the only reason I came back here.
6 marquisdejolie August 27, 2007 at 6:47 pm: It’s up. It’s down. Oh the humanity, ladies and gentlemen. The humanity. Will the meglomonolithic corporation survive its own ego? Stay tuned for another exciting episode of “As The TubeSpace Turns.”
7 Slater's Garage August 27, 2007 at 6:50 pm: What’s YouTube? I come here for the strudel. It’s great!
8 TET August 27, 2007 at 7:14 pm: I only came here to find out why YouTube was down. Haven’t actually tried the YouTube site its self yet, I just saw your post in my RSS feed and came straight here.

Everyone knows that there is no point in trying to contact YouTube about anything to do with their site. Nalts probably broke it anyway by over doing the community interaction thing. Maybe their Nalts levels were down and they’ve gone into withdrawal?
9 Nick R (mabuspwns) August 27, 2007 at 7:44 pm: I love nalts.
10 Skylark August 27, 2007 at 8:53 pm: I dislike YouTube.
11 Skylark August 27, 2007 at 8:54 pm: But I do like Nalts.
12 steve August 27, 2007 at 10:22 pm: I dont worry about comments, i have them all turned off, I dont even allow subscribers,didnt get any more views anyway,and still on pace for 1.3 million+. BTW,im just here for the spam,my spam that is,check out my UFO video! LOL@ marquis as usual!
13 nalts August 28, 2007 at 4:53 am: Today’s word of the day… meglomonolithic. Hey- checkout willvideoforfood.com/index.
14 marquisdejolie August 28, 2007 at 7:01 am: Nice 404 message. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a nicer one.
15 Matt August 28, 2007 at 7:20 am: How about http://www.willvideoforfood.com/index.html
16 Gregor August 28, 2007 at 7:26 am: I know i’m a little late with this comment, but to reply to TET, i have found, that there is a knack to speaking to YT. On a few occasions I have contacted them regarding this and that, and 90% of the time they respond personally, and not just with the automated response.
It’s called the ‘Kiss Kick Kiss’ system.
Start the emal with a positive comment, friendly and to gain a bit of rapport like ‘I know you get people moaning at you all day, it must be hell…..I’ll try my HARDEST not to whinge’
Then insert complaint, but in a constructive manner.
Then I finish off saying that I hope they have a lovely day, and don’t take the haters to heart, or something like that.
Manners cost not one single penny, BUT they can do absolute wonders.
To be honest, this works with absolutely anyone, and also a good management technique when dealing with problems with workers you have to discipline.
Christ Gregor, SHUT UP!
17 marquisdejolie August 28, 2007 at 8:02 am: I’d rather whinge at them. I come from a long line of whingers and we have perfected the technique. 7 out of 10 hopelessly powerless bureaucrats (sic) quit their jobs and move to Vancouver after one of our clan has whinged.
18 marquisdejolie August 28, 2007 at 8:08 am: MATT: Nice start! I like the soothing colors. But my blog has cooler and more robust Revver widgets on it. Six or seven of them. Bragetty brag brag. No, no, no, not my ugly joke website that this comment is linked to….my blog.
19 Matt August 28, 2007 at 10:15 am: Marquis, all of the credit goes to the brilliant tripplehelix, I just fixed Nalts url.
20 sukatra August 28, 2007 at 3:59 pm: gregor – who at youtube do you actually communicate with – do you just send them to editor@youtube.com or is there a particular person you deal with?
21 marquisdejolie August 28, 2007 at 10:56 pm: There are PEOPLE at Youtube!!!???
22 Gregor August 31, 2007 at 7:10 am: Sukatra, I just go through the sites help center at bottom of the page and just select any of the links in blue, then keep selecting until it says at the bottom CONTACT US in blue, then there are 3 choices, report an account issue, report a general problem or I want to suggest a feature. chose the relevant one, then i’ll select what ever it is that is closest to the problem, but then detail it in the message space, never emailed editor@youtube directly.
23 glenn j schultz September 27, 2007 at 7:52 pm: i cant get my favorite song if by timi yuro because they sat i violated terms of service please reinstall my song for i did nothing wrong
24 glenn j schultz September 27, 2007 at 7:54 pm: i cant if by timi yuro on my site because they say terms of service violated please i want my song back
25 glenn j schultz September 27, 2007 at 7:56 pm: i did not abuse terms of service
26 glenn j schultz September 27, 2007 at 7:57 pm: timi yuro song if i want back to play i did not abuse terms of servic
27 Jon August 31, 2008 at 7:05 pm: Well, youtube is down right now…