I very rarely follow links to YouTube, mostly because when I'm reading HN, I'm not usually in a situation where video is a thing that I can do. Also, for techn

I very rarely follow links to YouTube, mostly because when I'm reading HN, I'm not usually in a situation where video is a thing that I can do. Also, for technical or involved topics, video is one the worst ways for me to take in information (the worst is lectures/presentations), so even when I can realistically watch videos linked from here, I tend not to. I just move on to the next story instead. Another huge factor is that YouTube links are often provided without any explanatory text, so I have no way of knowing if the video covers something that I'm really interested in. Submitters can fix that problem, though, by including a blurb describing the video.