Hi Dave,
I came to the forum to find out what happend with the video.
Thanks, let me try and explain.
Having said that I don't understand your argument about the "rabid fanbase".
As far as I know ts-80 and ts-100 are made by the same company. So why would a viewer be a fanboy of one but hate the other?
Because people absolutely
love the TS100, and countless people
who already own it have pestered me to do a review on it, of course so that I can validate their purchase and love of it.
I think the reason this video got critical comments was because you found the TS-100 to be less powerful than the TS-80.
Yes, because people who own and
love the TS100 don't want to hear that.
This is something that I have personal experience with that it isn't true. My TS-100 reaches more than 65W heating easily.
So that's why I commented: maybe do a followup video where you test with updated firmware, takes only 5 min to update.
I checked, I was running the latest 2.18 firmware as was shown in the video.
http://www.minidso.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=892If you mean the 3rd party software, then I'm not sure I agree that's a fair comparison. As a first pass the comparison should be done with the latest stock firmware like I used.
Of course you can also make your point and say: "but really the TS-100 is rubbish because I first had to update the firmware, and doesn't provide full power out of the box" (assuming this actually fixes the problem).
And how vendors should not expect users to have to update first.
How was I supposed to know any of this?
I took the iron out of the box, I used used and measured the consumption, and it didn't perform. Is this somehow my fault?
Also, didn't Marco Reps(?) review the TS80 and found it outperformed the TS100 also?
So instead of this, you get into petty comment wars with users (many who jump to wrong conclusions or miss the part of the video where you tried higher voltage)
Bingo, I corrected them as I always do.
Because I was forced to do this 20 times, it probably looked "petty".
, and eventually you take down the video completely frustrated.
As someone who does Youtube for so long, I expected you to handle this more professionally!
Let me try and explain it to you from a content creators point of view.
We continue to get comments and email for
years after a video is released, and for "controversial" videos this can get to ridiculous and unmanageable proportions.
Some say just ignore then, or delete them, or block them. or disable comments, but I pride myself on being a Youtuber who goes to the massive amount of effort to respond to comments and clear up misconceptions etc. And it would pain me to not be able to do it.
I've produced over 1500 video, so from the comments and email so far I can tell that it's never going to end, so the best decision was to remove the video.
As mentioned, it wasn't meant to be a review video, it was a quick comparison with a borrowed iron and the only tip I had. But as fate would have it, that was never going to be good enough or acceptable for many people.