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This is a clever idea, it is however very horrible for users. I would close a page if this was requested of me, although you may have some luck with people in t
by citricsquid 16y ago
This is a clever idea, it is however very horrible for users. I would close a page if this was requested of me, although you may have some luck with people in the "social media" field.
If I was running this site I would have it create a prompt at the end of the video that says "oh hey if you enjoyed this why not share on Twitter?" but I guess Youtube already supports that natively... sort of.
- petervandijck 16y agoNot everything that asks something of users is bad for users. I think it's an awesome idea.
- citricsquid 16y agoIt's not asking something of a user, it's forcing them. If this was optional it would be asking. I think it would be great if it was optional and showed at the end of the video, why would you tweet about a video you've not yet seen?
- Legion 16y agoForcing users to do something isn't always necessarily a bad thing. It depends on the use case. In general, no, I wouldn't want to tweet about a video before seeing it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a use inside of something larger.
- alttab 16y agoI can't ever see a use case where it is OK to force a user to syndicate your content before viewing it. It trying to force virality -- and after a while users will stop watching videos, negating the effect if not harming the content in the long run. Think "Expert's Exchange"
- s_jambo 16y agoEvery time anything tries to make me like it, it has turned out to be a hoax (discovered by googling the thing not by liking it I might add).
- sgdesign 16y agoWell nobody's forcing you to use his service to force users. So it's still all good!