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We’ve tried to make Vodpod more engaging for visitors by allowing guests to comment on videos you collect at Vodpod.

Most of the time, people add interesting comments. Occasionally, guests visit and even add excellent comments. But not everyone out there has good manners, or good taste, and occasionally comments might get left on videos you collect that aren’t appropriate.

In the rare instances when this happens, you can “hide” the comment. Just go to the video page, mouse over the comment that is inappropriate, and click the “thumbs down” button:

This will have the effect of “hiding” the comment:

Of course, because we’re a diverse video community, it’s important to strike the right balance with this tool. The “down mod” tool isn’t designed to exclude comments you disagree with; rather, you should use it only when the comment violates the overall ethos of our community here at Vodpod.

The most common examples see of comments that should get “down modded” are:

Spam — the comment includes a link that isn’t relevant, and is only provided to drive traffic

Inappropriate language — racial epithets, excessive swearing, personal insults

Jibberish — some people just type in jibberish to get a reaction

We hope you’ll use the tool — judiciously — to make Vodpod a more interesting community, a place where we allow people to express a wide range of views, but where we keep things civil and informed, too.

Want to edit or delete one of the videos you’ve collected? Or, want to organize the videos in your collection?

From your account page, just click the link to go to your collection:

From the your collection front page, you can click the “edit” link to edit or delete a specific video; or, click the “organize your videos” link at the top if you want to edit or delete multiple videos:

You can delete videos from the organizer, too. Just roll your cursor over the thumbnail of the video you want to delete, and you’ll see a trashcan icon in the upper right corner of the thumbnail. Click on the trashcan icon to delete the video.

If you want to batch organize your videos into tags (tags are basically like categories, but more flexible), just click the “organize tags” link at the bottom of the organizer. You’ll be able to drag-and-drop videos into the appropriate tag group, and also create new tags if you need them to organize your videos.

We’ve simplified the way you can react or rate a video, and replaced our menu of “emoticons” with a simple thumbs up and thumbs down reaction. You’ll see the icons for this right below the video:

Just click the thumbs up (or down) to react to a video. You can, as always, give a more detailed reaction with a comment. In the coming months, we plan to make good and interesting use of the thumbs up (and down) data, so click away.