The whole issue of people having a "right" to comment on stuff like youtube videos I find kinda funny.
Imagine you're walking down the street and someone comes up to you and says "Couldn't you find something nicer to wear? That looks like crap". Or you spend weeks/months building a cool RC airplane from scratch and bring it to a club to fly it with a bunch of other RC'ers, and someone tells you "Are you freakin' kidding?? That's not realistic at all. That's just crap".
Nobody asked for your input. And I hate to break it to you, but nobody cares about your opinion, or my opinion, or anyone else's opinion. If someone wants to design their videos so that they appeal to certain viewers, and they ASK for your opinion, then fine.
Just like in tech forums. Opinions are everywhere, but are often irrelevant.
So yeah, next time you write a negative comment or do the ridiculous downvoting, imagine it's no different from coming up to the same guy on the street and, in front of his family, telling him he's an a-hole. But in this case you're doing it in front of the world of other viewers as well as his family and friends.
Good on ya'.
Except it's completely different and incomparable.
If I'm walking down the street minding my own business and someone tells me that what I'm wearing looks crap, that is one thing.
If I end up on TV or youtube, that's a completely different situation. You cant have both fame and anonymity. No matter how small the fame.
I've posted probably 5 or 6 under 2 min YouTube clips in my time showing problems I'm having with something, a problem with my keybed on a synth springs to mind. Each time instantly showing the problem, no talking, no vid of me. And I posted links to the vid in the relevant forums.
I couldn't give a dam if someone wants to down vote it, I couldn't give a toss if someone want's to write stupid comments. I didn't post them, to try and make myself feel good.
But when someone does a youtube vid, starts off by showing themselves thinking they are cool (when they usually aren't), asks us to like their vid etc etc etc (and most tell you to post any comments down bellow etc), then you can't complain when people post comments.
If I want to find out how something works, and there's 30+ YouTube vids, glancing at the comments and seeing 10+ people complain about the annoyingly loud music, or seeing 10+ people saying that the author could have said everything in 2 mins instead of 20, they are very very valuable comments in my opinion. It doesn't matter whether the poster asked for such comments, by reading such comments, I know not to waste my time watching that vid. Therefore I do care about those comments, and many other people care too. It's by reading such comments, we know not to waste our time.
I do understand there are a group of people that seem to lack brain cells, people that down vote for ridiculous things, people that make the stupidest of comments. But likewise comments often open debate, comments can lead to interesting discussion. Comments can (and I've seen this often in this type of forum) lead to the original author changing or adding something to their original post, saying xyz pointed out in the comments that it does do abc, all you have to do is......
What you seem to be implying is you want to be able to post a youtube vid, you are happy to have positive comments or upvotes, but anything else is uncalled for and out of order. Life on youtube simply doesn't work that way.
I hate facebook. I am on it, have about 20 friends from where I grew up, just to keep tabs on my old mates, not interested in the rest. But a few month ago I joined a few local buy/sell groups. When the lockdown in the UK started, people were posting on those groups that if any elderly person wants shopping done etc, just leave a whatever in their window, or feel free to contact xyz. I politely pointed out that while I commend such helpful people, they are infact putting the elderly at risk, there will be people who offer to do their shopping who will simply steal their money etc.
I got called all the names under the sun (including c word) and got told I'm the sort of scum that emptied the shelves of toilet paper etc etc etc etc. Nothing rude in what I originally said, I was just trying to prevent the elderly being scammed (wife has a lot of elderly clients and people are always trying to scam them) . What I said has been proven to be totally true as that's exactly what happened (and to me, it was obviously going to happen) .
Did their stupid vile comments annoy me, yes they did. Did part of me feel like trying to justify myself to them, trying to show I wasn't like they thought I was, yes part of me did (it's human nature, some people can ignore criticism, others, even if they don't want it to, find criticism grating away at them to differing levels). Did I bother to do that though, no I didn't, I simply left all the local buy and sell groups and am back to just my friends and a few lathe, electronics, and 3d printer groups.
People are always going to spout crap when they are anonymously sitting behind their keyboards, they aren't worth arguing with. Even though I know it's stupid to let them annoy me, they still did, hence I left those groups. But I do think that's different to warning fellow viewers that the post has a ton of loud background music or takes ages to get a simple point across.
Sure people can post their vids in what ever style they want. But unless they let us know in advance their vids are say aimed at people into both electronics and loud death metal music, then they shouldnt be surprised when numerous people point this out in the comments.
And as I said on my previous comment, the vid I sent my son had the completely wrong way of applying thermal paste on. There's thousands of vids that show different ways of applying thermal paste, a pea sized blob, an X, even (although I dislike this method) spreading a tiny amount over the CPU with an old credit card. But none of them say plaster the cpu with about 4 mm of paste. The author didn't ask for comments, but I'm glad others took the time to tell people he had put on far far far too much thermal paste, as it saved me the bother of commenting. However, it was one of the best videos I've seen showing how to get off the stock intel fan and put it back on again. Nobody ask for the comments from these guys, but I do care and I'm glad they pointed out he was applying the paste completely wrong.