Surprised YouTube embed in comments post

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  shimworld · Member · Mar 4, 2010 at 2:25 am

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  I’ve noticed on some websites users are allowed to upload pictures along with their comments. While I’ve wondered the possibility of doing this on WP.com hosted blogs more than once I was surprised when a comment came in with a YouTube link and WP.com converted it into an embedded video. So cool. I now wonder if this also applied to photo links where WP.com automatically resizes to a thumbnail for images that exceed the allowed dimensions.

  http://shimworld.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/wu-chun-on-cover-of-gq-taiwan/

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 4, 2010 at 7:14 am

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  When embedding videos and polls in comments was first announced, the question about photos was also asked and the answer at that time was “it’s complicated”. Don’t know that things have changed, but this Support doc seems to say it hasn’t.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/embeds/

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  t3ck · Member · Mar 4, 2010 at 3:03 pm

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  This is a little bit Off Topic But if you want to convert the video comment into a link please follow these instructions.

  To turn a comment video into a link simply
  edit the comment then highlight the link
  then click the code option then click save

  Now the video will be turned into a link for
  your readers to click and be reedirected to the
  actual video on YouTube.