As some of you know we recently added the ability to let viewers comment on content that's hosted on Screencast.com. If you are not familiar with the feature, here's a screencast that will walk you through the details:

http://www.screencast.com/t/ZGNhvOvnv

During earlier design discussions we took the conservative approach and decided to release the feature in an "off by default" state, meaning that for every piece of content on which an owner wanted to collect comments, the content owner would have to manually enable the feature after upload. We did not want to upset content owners who, for whatever reason, did not want viewers to comment on their content. And with an email notification message as part of the option, we did not want to begin filling up unsuspecting content owners' email in-boxes with unexpected comment notifications.

So with that said, and lacking any quantitative data to support our earlier decision, I've decided to solicit some input from all of you. Submit a comment to this post with your vote yea or nay to having the Commenting feature turned ON by default (changing the way it works today). We're here and listening so of course if you have any other suggestions, feel free to submit those as well. And as always - Happy Screencasting!

- Dirk