They are totally in keeping with the theme of the community, so I don’t entirely understand.
I dislike YouTube links because I don’t like watching videos. Text posts are easy to skim and quote. Videos are slow, hard to quote, and often full of self promotion.
Providing a textual description of the video in the post body is a decent compromise.
Fast check from a /all lurker - I imagine it is that you post only a youtube link with no summarising text of what the video says.
Because videos suck and they’re a no-effort post on your part.
Don’t be lazy - If I wanted to watch shitty videos by amateurs, I’d go right to YouTube myself.
Even worse when videos are posted with no commentary - that’s an automatic downvote.
Videos are the worst
- Comes from fascist youtube
- FULL of ads
- Can’t skim
- Annoying voices or music (or both)
- Youtube voice
- Youtube face
It’s also extremely low effort - if you want to discuss a video post it with a summary in the body and your own reaction as the first comment, and I some people may engage with that
youtube is useful for music videos and how to fix your car videos
for anything else, written articles win every time. too many youtubers flap their faceholes about irrelevant stuff i couldn’t care less about before getting to the damn point in order to increase their “watch duration” or some shit–that’s a hard pass for me. also, seriously–has anyone EVER liked and subscribed only because the person in the video reminded them to?
“How to do xx in 2 minutes” - Video length: 10 mins
“The single reason why xx is yy” - Video length: 18 mins
The worst ones are the videos that are listing things and they don’t use chapters.
yep. i’ve gotten in the habit, even when i watch a tutorial of something i need to do, i automatically skip like 3 minutes ahead, and if they’re still talking about their patreon or some shit, keep skipping until the actual content comes up
much easier to do with text than with someone yapping
So despite the fact that I watched every video I have posted, and felt that they made informed, salient points that I felt the community would be interested in, it’s still an automatic downvote for you?
i don’t downvote, i just don’t click the link. people recommend me youtube videos all the damn time, and i NEVER go, because the ratio of “that was great” vs “wow i was more annoyed than anything else” is ridiculous
you like videos, that’s great. what you’re doing though is assuming that everyone likes videos, which, clearly, not everyone does. you don’t have to understand why a thing is the way it is, just to acknowledge it. more information. OR here’s a video for you
edit: i think maybe you meant to respond to this comment?
generally many folks don’t want to scroll through videos. Like the other responses stated: include a text summary of the key points from the video.
