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| GlennSprigg:
... And this last page has 'what' to do with "Cranky Old Scrooges" ?? :P Except to highlight what the O.P. was initially talking about !! :phew: Maybe if I say... Live & let live, or Do unto Others, or Help those in Need, or Just do our best, or Love thy Neighbour... Surely that will trigger another DEFCON-2, resulting in 'deletion'... Sigh... It always depends on the 'individual' one seems to offend, or has the bigger 'head'. :=\ |
| KL27x:
One major difference is that text is easily edited. (I know I'll get flack for this; I edit 99% of my posts). Videos can be edited and reuploaded, but that's a lot of work and is often impractical. A video is a finished product unto itself. Sometimes the uploader will add some corrections in the description, I suppose. Sometimes they issue followup vids to make amends. Sometimes people just leave a bunch of BS on the net, because they never realize it or they simlpy don't care that they're misleading newbs. They are putting inordinate amount of care into the number of views and likes beyond accuracy and correctness of the content. Why would you take that down and put up a new version, when YT algorithm has made the original video a huge success, and replacing it with a more accurate video will be starting new with more competition? You wouldn't do that. In this case success leads to less clarification. Text websites/blogs are easily updated. Forums are great because a thread can just grow and be added upon. I love that necro threads happen, here. Vs on reddit, it's more like twitter; after so long, you can't post to an old thread. The signal:noise is an issue, but text can be easily scanned. Interpersonal BS can be ignored/avoided or simply tolerated for what it is. Marketing responses are often easy to spot (of course it's impossible to tell if a post is from a marketer or a victim of marketing "education.") |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: KL27x on June 05, 2020, 08:09:50 pm ---One major difference is that text is easily edited. (I know I'll get flack for this; I edit 99% of my posts). Videos can be edited and reuploaded, but that's a lot of work and is often impractical. A video is a finished product unto itself. Sometimes the uploader will add some corrections in the description, I suppose. Sometimes they issue followup vids to make amends. Sometimes people just leave a bunch of BS on the net, because they never realize it or they simlpy don't care that they're misleading newbs. They are putting inordinate amount of care into the number of views and likes beyond accuracy and correctness of the content. Why would you take that down and put up a new version, when YT algorithm has made the original video a huge success, and replacing it with a more accurate video will be starting new with more competition? You wouldn't do that. In this case success leads to less clarification. --- End quote --- There is also the fact that lots of people have put effort into comments, and as a creator I hate to delete a video and reupload because you lose the comments. Very rarely had to do that though, if I goof up something so serious that warrants to pull the edit and edit then it's usually within 10's of minutes of uploading that the comments will starts pouring in pointing it out. In which case I'll sacrifice some comments to make the correction. |
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