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Let's talk about the comments section and revisiting Rule 303....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, Internet People, it's Bo again.

0:04.0

So tonight we're going to talk about an unwritten rule of Internet journalism, the comment section, and we're going to revisit Rule

0:17.8

303. We're going to talk about that again. So the unwritten rule is that you never, under any circumstance, read the comments section under your work.

0:34.0

If you are publishing on the internet, you never read your own comment section.

0:39.0

If you do, what you're going to find is every grammar expert in the world congregating to

0:47.8

critique your work.

0:50.3

You will find everybody with a differing opinion explaining what a horrible person you are.

0:58.0

You will find just a whole bunch of stuff that is bad for morale and bad for productivity.

1:06.0

Most people don't read their own comments sections, especially if they're writing.

1:19.7

I read the comments section under these videos. I try to read them all actually. But last night I ran across a comment that was from somebody who was hearing impaired.

1:29.6

And they were just expressing their frustration that the closed captioning was messing up.

1:36.0

And I commented explaining yes there's a glitch, you know, we are aware of it, there's nothing

1:40.3

we can really do about it, It's on the other end.

1:44.8

But I kept an eye on the video waiting

1:47.8

for the close captioning to show up.

1:49.5

And when it did, I went back to the comment.

1:53.0

And what I found was that one of you had transcribed the entire video and put it below.

2:06.0

That's pretty cool. That is pretty cool.

2:08.0

That is rule 303.

2:11.0

Now that term gets thrown around a lot on the channel, but I realize that

2:15.4

video is old. A lot of people who have just arrived may not know that, know what it is.

2:21.9

I'll link the original video that explains where the term came

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