Do you watch any of the talking head videos posted in this forum?

[Pens1566]

Rarely but on occasion. Another question is, do you read any posts which are longer than say, 100 words? Sometimes longer posts do not get the attention they may deserve.

No, I generally ignore that poster completely.

As for OP, I watch the funny ones like SNL, Oliver, Kimmel. If you post a youtube video, eh ...

 

[woolfe9998]

No, I generally ignore that poster completely.

As for OP, I watch the funny ones like SNL, Oliver, Kimmel. If you post a youtube video, eh ...

Some posters may make long posts from time to time. I wasn't speaking of any one poster in particular.

 

[Pens1566]

Some posters may make long posts from time to time. I wasn't speaking of any one poster in particular.

IYKYK

 

[Perknose]

Some posters may make long posts from time to time. I wasn't speaking of any one poster in particular.

I am, but won't name them.

 

[woolfe9998]

I am, but won't name them.

Everyone has people whose posts they are not wild about, and will skip all their posts. I was asking if people skip longer posts because they are long, not because of who the poster is.

 

[Pohemi]

Another question is, do you read any posts which are longer than say, 100 words? Sometimes longer posts do not get the attention they may deserve.

Everyone has people whose posts they are not wild about, and will skip all their posts. I was asking if people skip longer posts because they are long, not because of who the poster is.

Just one particular poster, and I'll only skip theirs if/when they don't use paragraph breaks. FWIW they've gotten much better as of late. They might still ramble a bit, but that solid wall-o-text is what made me scroll on by.

 

[Commodus]

Not usually.

As others have said, if someone frequently sees YouTube videos as substitutes for articulating their own thoughts, rather than supplements, they don't really have original ideas. They're just parroting someone else's. Critical thinking means finding out where you stand, and challenging even those concepts you largely agree with.

Yes, 0roo was the classic example of this. You could tell he was the sort who spent all day watching right-wing conspiracy videos and accepting everything they said without question. He'd post a brief blurb above a video and assume we'd trust it just as blindly as he did. We blasted him at the time, but in hindsight it's pretty sad — we were watching him tumble down a rabbit hole that likely isolated him and hurt his chances in life.

 

[Perknose]

Just one particular poster, and I'll only skip theirs if/when they don't use paragraph breaks. FWIW they've gotten much better as of late. They might still ramble a bit, but that solid wall-o-text is what made me scroll on by.

Responding to wolfexxxx, exactly this in every respect. Life is short, and I have neither the time nor patience for a dog's breakfast jumble of unedited thoughts . . . even if I might well agree with the sentiments buried within.

 

[eelw]

Nope. Trevor Noah stuff isn’t even good. Meh to Beau videos. If anything worth watching from Faux, other media will create highlights of it. Only channel that I do watch that gets posted here is Legal Eagle

 

[hal2kilo]

I can't watch or see everything. Mostly, I've seen it already, but I do appreciate seeing some things I wouldn't have run across. It's your free choice to look or not look. Just like you can put anyone on ignore if you want to.

 

[Muse]

Depends. I like Noah's Daily Show stuff. It's more than a talking head trip. I watch Beau sometimes, but I get impatient with him, just watch his stuff occasionally. I post talking head videos when I think they are informative, to the point. I have had people complain and ask for a summary and then complied with one.

 

[Moonbeam]

Not usually.

As others have said, if someone frequently sees YouTube videos as substitutes for articulating their own thoughts, rather than supplements, they don't really have original ideas. They're just parroting someone else's. Critical thinking means finding out where you stand, and challenging even those concepts you largely agree with.

Yes, 0roo was the classic example of this. You could tell he was the sort who spent all day watching right-wing conspiracy videos and accepting everything they said without question. He'd post a brief blurb above a video and assume we'd trust it just as blindly as he did. We blasted him at the time, but in hindsight it's pretty sad — we were watching him tumble down a rabbit hole that likely isolated him and hurt his chances in life.

I love this post because I love the spirit of the person I sense behind it. I am glad to have read it and that Meghan54 liked it too.

 

[pmv]

Nope, just can't be bothered. Listening to videos is far more work than reading. And it's somehow annoying. You are, after all, adding to their 'view count' (potentially earning them money) just to hear a lecture you likely entirely disagree with.

 

[pmv]

Rarely but on occasion. Another question is, do you read any posts which are longer than say, 100 words? Sometimes longer posts do not get the attention they may deserve.

Sure. Though it very much depends how it's formatted. If it's a headache-inducing wall-of-text, no.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm not on AT for video content, I rarely watch any videos posted anywhere here, regardless of sub-forum.

 

[Moonbeam]

I read only those posts written to the highest standards of perfection, generally speaking my own as setting the standard, and reply only to those who challenge what I say because their authors are clearly mentally defective and in deep need of my help, not to mention their need to be punished as well. They are clearly inferior by choice and require a sobering dose of ridicule to snap them back to attention. Ah, the cursed life of the impeccable critic. It's an exhausting task as there is so much wrong about what is said on the internet.

 

[hal2kilo]

I can't watch or see everything. Mostly, I've seen it already, but I do appreciate seeing some things I wouldn't have run across. It's your free choice to look or not look. Just like you can put anyone on ignore if you want to.

I must admit I didn't read through all of the posts. I definitely do not watch any of the "influencer" videos mainly because the concept hideous to me. You don't do your own work?

 

[Moonbeam]

What I look for in a post is whether it contains ideas and insights I haven't thought of that strike a cord. Such a post can broaden my understanding and it has happened countless times to me on this forum. One of the key insights that came to me elsewhere was the result of a search for proof that good exists.

This search lead to the death of my core sacred beliefs. This paved the way for new thoughts and insights I could not have had in any other way.

One of the features of the loss of certainty, no tile above, no place below to place my foot, something that Zen opened my eyes to as an apt analogy of where I wound up, was that the loss of all of my sacred beliefs meant also the loss of all my sacred rules.

I don't give a fig if someone's post is long, if the spelling and grammar are correct, if it contains many or no paragraphs, and all the other horse shit I have seen on this forum like Capital letters used to drive people nuts. They called it screaming. People are funny and amazing, including amazingly superficial. I watched Laura Ingraham express the fact that she was pissed at the job Republicans had done in failing to win the Georgia senate race:

'I'm pissed': Laura Ingraham seethes after Fox News calls Georgia race

After Fox News declared Raphael Warnock the winner in Tuesday's Senate runoff, host Laura Ingraham went on a diatribe against Senate Republicans.

www.sfgate.com

What an amazingly self important clown, like the dead should roll over in their graves because she had a bad hair day.

"My life is too important and my time too limited to waste it on this or that kind of post as I waste my live away clinging to my ten thousand pounds of cabbage."

A king once sent his son to study with a Sufi where the son of a beggar and a beggar himself was also sent. In no time at all the son of the beggar had far outpaced the King's son on The Way. The King demanded an explanation from the Teacher. He answered, "He has a lot farther to travel than the beggar's son." Dump the cabbage if you can.

 

[pauldun170]

Zero.
Not a single one.

 

[pmv]

I also hate it when I look for a bit of technical information, e.g. about repairing some device or other, and instead of the short bit of text and maybe a diagram or two I was hoping for, all I find are bloody YouTube videos of people turning the business of giving a simple piece of information into a chance to try and be a social-media 'personality'.

 

[uallas5]

Wait, so I've been wasting my time linking this and trying to disguise it?

(222) Rick Astley Never gonna give you up 12 hour seamless loop - YouTube

Gosh darn it to heck

 

[IronWing]

Okay, I clicked that.

 

[nakedfrog]

Of all the botty posts we've had, that's got to be one of the bottiest.

 

[Muse]

I suppose it's been said in this thread, but Stop Making Sense movie is killer great. Moran, botty, it's got it all.

 

[Muse]

I also hate it when I look for a bit of technical information, e.g. about repairing some device or other, and instead of the short bit of text and maybe a diagram or two I was hoping for, all I find are bloody YouTube videos of people turning the business of giving a simple piece of information into a chance to try and be a social-media 'personality'.

I've seen a few YT videos that are quite the opposite. For instance this 54 second video tutorial on how to carve up Costco rotisserie chicken: