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Connecting with the YouTube community

Pt. 5 of 10 | 2:22 |

Beginner's guide to YouTube

Friday November 21, 2008

One of the key benefits to being part of the YouTube community (aside from the untold number of amusing pet clips or course) is being able to comment on videos. YouTube community members can comment with either text comments or by posting a video response.

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Written response

- Log into your YouTube account.

- Click on Post a Text Comment to... post a text comment. Comments are limited to 500 characters.

- The thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons beside each text comment allows you and other members of the YouTube community to rate comments up or down.

- When viewing comments, you can use the pull-down menu beside Show: to filter comments by community ranking. If you've ever read YouTube comments before, you'll realize why this could be valuable.

Responding to a video in kind

- Click on Post a Video Response to... post a video response.

- Similar to Part 4 of our Beginner's Guide to YouTube, you can choose to record a new video using your webcam or upload a video that's already recorded and stored on your computer.

- The middle tab of the Post a Video Response window allows you to choose a video you've already uploaded to YouTube as a response.

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