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Youtube "how to" videos are mostly useless

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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 22, 2024, 12:15:42 am ---What point is there to make?

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The bad crowding out the good. Not only because of sheer volume, but also because the algorithms push crap.  How so?

Google favours the new over the old; that's also visible in its text search results. Consequence perennially good stuff that doesn't change over years is "deprioritised" in favour of today's clickbait.

It is also in google's financial interest to push stuff that drives advertising revenue, which is typically more idiotic (cats anyone?) or controversial.

jonovid:
in recent years I have noticed a trend of deliberate dumbing down of how to content on youtube that is made for the so-called modern audiences.
to make it easier for non technical low IQ people to understand.   call it kiddie playschool science if you like.
also there is a trend of more professional full time youtubes posting for instant video gratification or quantity over quality. 

Buriedcode:
This thread is very reminiscent of an Eti thread.

I don't like x.  I expect x to do this. but x doesn't do this, and people should make x do this for me.

Viewing youtube videos is optional.  And if you are complaining that many - perhaps most - are "useless" to you then I'm not sure what you expect anyone to do about it - or care.

I suppose if your job is repairing things, and the first way you approach that problem is to look for youtube videos, then I can understand frustration if said youtube videos explicitly state they show you how to do said repair but then fail to do so. But I suspect that isn't what you're on about.  Sounds like you assume and expect something from a youtube video from its titel, and it doesn't live up to that.

There are myriad reasons people upload videos - money, likes, a genuine wish to help others, because their friends are doing it.  Also - they are free for you to watch and as such come with no guarantees or quality control (whatever you expect that to be). Not sure you can compare youtube to old books, newsletters or even pre-2000 websites, as all of those had a higher bar because it cost money to publish and present that information, as such, it was more to the point, and generally more reliable.

Maybe take a break from watching youtube for a while and spend your valuable time doing things that dont' make you angry?

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Buriedcode on March 22, 2024, 04:36:44 am ---This thread is very reminiscent of an Eti thread.

I don't like x.  I expect x to do this. but x doesn't do this, and people should make x do this for me.

Viewing youtube videos is optional.  And if you are complaining that many - perhaps most - are "useless" to you then I'm not sure what you expect anyone to do about it - or care.

I suppose if your job is repairing things, and the first way you approach that problem is to look for youtube videos, then I can understand frustration if said youtube videos explicitly state they show you how to do said repair but then fail to do so. But I suspect that isn't what you're on about.  Sounds like you assume and expect something from a youtube video from its titel, and it doesn't live up to that.

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You partly answer your own point, when you note the content doesn't live up to the title.

"Never judge a book by the cover" is a good sentiment. With books, you can avoid that by looking at the table of contents and skimming a couple of pages.

You can't do the equivalent with videos since they rarely have a ToC, and the couple of pages take 20 minutes to speak (2000 words, 100wpm).


--- Quote ---Maybe take a break from watching youtube for a while and spend your valuable time doing things that dont' make you angry?

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That's why I have stopped watching yoootoob videos unless someone I trust has recommended them for a specific reason. Shame, because I miss the 0.001% of good videos.

There are other equivalents, e.g.:

* the net after Eternal September, and Kanter and Siegel (may they rot in hell)
* that lovely holiday destination that is spoiled by becoming so popular that you can't get a good meal there anymoreYou get the drift.

coppercone2:
they just make 0 effort crap because algorithms/ai gets you to watch it and they get beer money for it

its kind of like information pollution. can you do something cheaper and get more money if you pollute? of course
does youtube want more content (like those old video game CD's that came with 5000 games?) yes. its a selling point
do people want money for half assed work ? definitely

those kind of videos later involve someone bragging to their friends along the lines of "can you believe I got a check for this shit"?


the only thing that could help is some kind of detector to warn you that the video is half assed. using youtube now means using the seek bar ALOT to scan the video to see if anything useful occurs.

IMO this happened because cameras are really cheap now. the video makers have a fishing mentality IMO, come back and get fish. but they cause massive information pollution


magazines were higher quality because they had a editor. it kept the fishermen out

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