{"id":6707,"date":"2009-01-27T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-27T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T06:50:00","slug":"youtube-allows-users-to-delete-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/6707-youtube-allows-users-to-delete-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"YouTube allows users to delete comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users of the Google-owned video-sharing site can new delete their own comments from the thread which accompanies videos on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Whether you misspelled &quot;pwned,&quot; back in the day when you were just a n00b to the internets, or you simply said something you wish you could take back &#8211; now you can remove your commentary at any time,&quot; YouTube said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Of course, we always encourage everyone to think things through before posting comments anywhere on the site. But if you don&#8217;t get it right the first time, now you can simply delete your comment,&quot; it added.<\/p>\n<p>To remove a comment, a user goes to the &quot;Text Comments&quot; section below a video and clicks on the &quot;Remove&quot; button.<\/p>\n<p>Users can only delete comments they themselves have posted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube on Monday unveiled a new feature which may prove useful to poor spellers or people suffering from &quot;comment regret&quot;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}