YouTube/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

* Why is it that just about ''anything'' can spark a religious debate on [[YouTube]]? I can't count how many times I've seen a completely benign video, or one with very brief religious allusions, have half its comment section drowned by people bashing each other beliefs. One example that really got me thinking was a video some college kid made about how to get into Harvard. It wasn't until the last, maybe 40 seconds that he says something to the effect of "I didn't think I could make it, but I guess God had a plan for me. I followed the steps I just told you, I worked hard, and here I am. If I can do it, so can you. Good luck, and thanks for watching." Oh, and there's a slide with a quote from Psalms. Does anyone talk about his college tips that made up most of the video? No. They talk about what a retard he is for being Christian. And then the insults, the testimonials, and the "evidence" start flying back and forth (and into the poor kid's inbox, probably). When it has nothing to do with the point of the video. WHY?

** ... Because a [[Vocal Minority]] of people are dicks? I don't see the confusion here.

* Security Updates, "Please input your mobile phone number"... '''what'''?

** More properly, first, I do not want to give Google and Youtube my mobile phone number, my Inbox is flooded with enough spam and mails that I don't give half a damn about anyway, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. Second, what if I don't have a mobile phone? What about ''all those users that actually don't''? Does Youtube really not care about the fuss they are causing to these users?

** You basically need to refresh the page, sacrificing your place in the video if you have it playing, or click 'All Comments'.

** It's become even more difficult to post a comment on Youtube now that they now have "Comment Pending Approval".

* Why does uploading a video give you the option to not make it available on mobile devices? And more importantly why do some people use that? That's just losing views right?

** Could be done for size options, compatibility options, software options, or just because they don't want people to distract themselves when doing something important like driving or at the dentist's office.

* Is there a way to set it up so you can't see any comments at all? I'm done dealing with the [[Fan Dumb]] and [[Hate Dumb]], I'd be a genuinely happier man if I could no longer see any comments at all.

** Firefox (or Chrome if you prefer) has the stylish add-on where you can download a style to hide them.

** Original poster here, and I use Chrome. Could you tell me more about this add-on?

** Alternatively, you can just not scroll down.

* How'd people get tired of the "arrow to the knee" jokes faster than the "number of dislikers/thumbs up if/[[Justin Bieber]]" jokes? They weren't around nearly as long and weren't quoted that much more than the others.

** Well "arrow to the knee" jokes really only applied to gamers, sure other people knew about it, but Justin Bieber jokes appeal to a larger audience.

* Blocking another user. I don't know if it was different before the changes, but I blocked someone, and he still had the ability to send me a message with the ''blocked'' account. So pretty much, blocking is useless?

** If You Tube have received multiple content violation notifications about a particular user then they probably find it easier to just delete the lot rather than go through every video and figure out which ones are legal.

* Why even bother with the copyright crap anyway? Some of the videos are unviewable here in Germany, and not just ones that contain copyright content. I never thought I'd say this, but [[YouTube]] sucks!

 

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