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Why are people upvoting this submission? What's interesting about the fact that YT removed some insignificant and unused feature?
by RivieraKid 13y ago
Why are people upvoting this submission? What's interesting about the fact that YT removed some insignificant and unused feature?
- lrem 13y agoBecause Google. Similar thing happened to me when I could not publish a paper for a long time due to no interest in a subject... Until somebody published a similar thing with a Google affiliation. Then I couldn't publish it cause it was not original any more.
- simias 13y agoI find it notable that something that seemed so prominent on a very popular website like youtube only had .0004% click-through rate.
- VLM 13y agoI find it interesting that basically 100% of videos were from spammers (spare me the rounding error anecdote) so the CTR for video spam is "about" two orders of magnitude lower than the supposed (although highly gamed and faked) CTR for banner ads which are also by definition 100% unwanted spam. So are there really two orders of mag of fraud in the bigger industry of banner ads, or despite popular belief is video two orders of mag less compelling than static banner ads or email spam... Something doesn't add up.
- unreal37 13y agoI support removing video responses. They were useless. Upvote!
- Grue3 13y agoBecause it wasn't insignificant, and is actually used?
- RivieraKid 13y agoIt was actually used, but by a fraction of users.
- Grue3 13y agoA fraction of users upload videos on Youtube, guess this feature also needs to be phased out.