Agreed. I enjoy videos, but sometimes I’d prefer to read an abstract or something first to decide whether it’s worth spending 20 minutes on. (Ideally, a transcript would be useful too, though I recognize it’s much more work for the author.)
To avoid repeating myself I will just say here that I’ve downvoted multiple replies of yours for hostility. Stating a preference for text isn’t an attack on you; misrepresenting people’s responses just comes off badly.
Consider how long it would take you to write a transcript. Then consider how long it would take people to watch the video, multiplied by the number of people on LW interested in the topic. Compare the results.
Ah, so that 200 word abstract wasn’t abstract enough for you?
I bust my ass to make videos that are both entertaining and informative, but—the one time I post a relevant video to LW, it’s not acceptable because I didn’t provie army1987 (who, btw, never served) a bloody transcript?
Agreed. I enjoy videos, but sometimes I’d prefer to read an abstract or something first to decide whether it’s worth spending 20 minutes on. (Ideally, a transcript would be useful too, though I recognize it’s much more work for the author.)
I apologize profusely for not going through the effort of writing an entire transcript for you.
To avoid repeating myself I will just say here that I’ve downvoted multiple replies of yours for hostility. Stating a preference for text isn’t an attack on you; misrepresenting people’s responses just comes off badly.
Consider how long it would take you to write a transcript. Then consider how long it would take people to watch the video, multiplied by the number of people on LW interested in the topic. Compare the results.
(And let’s not forget the deaf or hard of hearing.)
I didn’t expect you to, so no apologies are needed. (That was the point of the word ideally and the part after the last comma in my post.)
Ah, so that 200 word abstract wasn’t abstract enough for you?
I bust my ass to make videos that are both entertaining and informative, but—the one time I post a relevant video to LW, it’s not acceptable because I didn’t provie army1987 (who, btw, never served) a bloody transcript?
You are more entitled than Paris Hilton.
What abstract? And when did I say it was not “acceptable” to not provide a transcript?
30 minutes after posting I rewrote it to provide an abstract; you may not have seen that.