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100% agree with this. What makes me really scratch my head is that I talk to people regularly who prefer this! If I have to watch a video to answer my question,

by jghn 12y ago

100% agree with this. What makes me really scratch my head is that I talk to people regularly who prefer this! If I have to watch a video to answer my question, I'll just figure it out some other way.

mgkimsal 12y ago
we're a video culture - most people are consumers, and video is the easiest way to consume. reading takes too much time for most people. I agree with the frustration, but we've got a system now that rewards video makers for this stuff, and doesn't reward people posting this information in text format.
SilasX 12y ago
Completely agree with the above sentiments, but that's not the end of the idiodicy. There are people who will link a video to make their argument. Not only are they unwilling (and usually unable) to put it in their own words, they won't even link a text article that does it for them. So they expect me to watch a commercial and 3 minutes of video, when all they had to convey was a very concise point like "democrats offered to make 90% of the requested cuts, and the other side is shutting down the government over the last ten." But I "absolutely" must watch the video, with no summary of the point because "[my congresscritter hero] totally proves you wrong". ... and have the full support of the other reddit posters. F--- that.
petercooper 12y ago
I prefer it. Here's why. When Googling for specific details of something, I inevitably end up with 1001 automatically generated pages from the wrong data which are plastered with ads and other crap. With YouTube, I might have to watch a video, but the interface is consistent and I know that in most cases someone's had to put effort into actually showing me the right answer. If the textual Web were all put together by humans with answers, it'd be better, but it isn't :-( Of course, if the answer to something is on Wikipedia, it's a win. But Wikipedia isn't designed to be an encyclopedia of all human knowledge (sadly).
cpks 12y ago
It depends on context. First-order: * At a computer ==> Text * Commuting ==> Audio/video Second-order depends on things like type of content, cognitive load, etc.
- jghn 12y ago
  Agreed that commuting (for some forms of commuting) text is suboptimal. I ride on a subway so it doesn't really matter to me but I can't read blogs while driving for instance.

by jghn 12y ago

mgkimsal 12y ago

we're a video culture - most people are consumers, and video is the easiest way to consume. reading takes too much time for most people. I agree with the frustration, but we've got a system now that rewards video makers for this stuff, and doesn't reward people posting this information in text format.

SilasX 12y ago

Completely agree with the above sentiments, but that's not the end of the idiodicy. There are people who will link a video to make their argument. Not only are they unwilling (and usually unable) to put it in their own words, they won't even link a text article that does it for them. So they expect me to watch a commercial and 3 minutes of video, when all they had to convey was a very concise point like "democrats offered to make 90% of the requested cuts, and the other side is shutting down the government over the last ten." But I "absolutely" must watch the video, with no summary of the point because "[my congresscritter hero] totally proves you wrong". ... and have the full support of the other reddit posters. F--- that.

petercooper 12y ago

I prefer it. Here's why. When Googling for specific details of something, I inevitably end up with 1001 automatically generated pages from the wrong data which are plastered with ads and other crap. With YouTube, I might have to watch a video, but the interface is consistent and I know that in most cases someone's had to put effort into actually showing me the right answer. If the textual Web were all put together by humans with answers, it'd be better, but it isn't :-( Of course, if the answer to something is on Wikipedia, it's a win. But Wikipedia isn't designed to be an encyclopedia of all human knowledge (sadly).

cpks 12y ago

It depends on context. First-order: * At a computer ==> Text * Commuting ==> Audio/video Second-order depends on things like type of content, cognitive load, etc.

jghn 12y ago
Agreed that commuting (for some forms of commuting) text is suboptimal. I ride on a subway so it doesn't really matter to me but I can't read blogs while driving for instance.