Thumbs up or Down for videos - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Bryan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2016, 11:05:55 am
content: All:Not sure what others thoughts are, but I always give a thumbs up to the tube contributors for the content they provide. Especially the ones geared for the electronic nuts like ourselves. I can't imagine the time and work it takes to put together these videos. Kind of ticks me off when someone gives a thumb down. Only time I ever give a thumb downs is for contributors video that are just plain stupid and are just "look at what I did today" or social media type videos.

author: joseph nicholas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2016, 12:24:31 pm
content: It gets a thumbs up from me only when I can tell it is not done to line the pockets of the producer. If its so totally inept I just move on. Thumbs down when the person making the video is the son or daugher of a company executive trying to help dad climb the corporate latter.

author: PointyOintment
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2016, 12:37:32 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on December 18, 2016, 11:44:31 amI agree.Here's a relevant /r/changemyview thread (not mine).

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2016, 12:45:06 pm
content: To get a thumbs up requires all of:awrittensynopsis of what is and is not included - so that I'll think it is worth spending my time watchingmaterial thatrequiresthemovingpictures; anything that is adequately conveyed by words and pictures, should besuccinct, information dense, and comprehensive; I'm unlikely to spend an hour of my remaining life watching somebody go "um" and fiddle with something before getting to something worth watchingsome means of skipping over the boring bits to reach the useful bits; a written ToC plus times is sufficientVeryfew youtube vids meet those criteria. Mostly they are "look-at-me" ego boosts by people that consider what's easy for them without considering what's good for the audience. Self-centred and wrong attitude!When videos were expensive and difficult to make, peopleplannedwhat their audiences needed to know, anddisciplinedthemselves to getting that information over ASAP.A good example of all the above is the set of soldering videos here:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL926EC0F1F93C1837Compare those to most new stuff found on youtube. (But try not to snigger at the pronounciation of "soldering"!)

author: rstofer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2016, 10:21:37 pm
content: I don't give either thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Probably because I might have to register or something...Mostly, my opinion really doesn't matter, the video is what it is and there are viewers at all levels.If I gave thumbs-down, I would do it for every video made with a cellphone camera and I would double down if it was handheld. The nice thing about EEVblog videos is the quality of the video (and the content, of course!). These videos are made with a decent camera, mounted solid with very good post production editing.About the only videos I watch regularly are EEVblog and Khan Academy (grandson's math courses).

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 18, 2016, 10:30:36 pm
content: Quote from: Bryan on December 18, 2016, 11:05:55 amGuaranteed to be different to yours and everyone else's viewpoint.Everyone subscribes, watches, thumbs, and comments for very different reasons.