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Re:Bullet Time by instakill on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:56AM (#20439340)
Already mentioned in this thread is the fact that for videos with high frequency comments, reading vertically scrolling text becomes impossible because they scroll too fast.

Would would be cool if video platforms allowed Reddit-style voting for 3 or 4 comments per 10/15/20 second segments that would display as bubbled up (with viewers being able to expand for more comments for the same time slot).

That would solve the issue of comment-spam overwhelming the videos, plus it would become an incentive for higher quality submissions.

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Re:Bullet Time by francislavoie on Monday July 15, 2019 @06:22AM (#20439438)
Since Twitch uses IRC under the hood, it would probably take a full rewrite to support that kind of thing. I agree though, I'd love an alternative way to keep some comments sticky.

YouTube live chat does have a couple features to aid with that, they have "super chats" which are basically a way to pay to get your comment to stick at the top of the chat box, and they have a filter to just show top comments instead of the full live feed. It helps somewhat, but obviously it's not a complete solution.

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