Seconded. I want to READ stories on Slashdot. I do not want to watch another damn video, and I fail to understand why everyone seems to want to turn the entire Internet into TV 2.0 or something. Watching a video takes vastly more of my time than reading an interesting article about something, plus the intelligence level of most online video is way lower.
I've suggested to The Honchos that all videos on Slashdot should have a "video" topic marker, so that those who don't want to watch any videos, period, will be able to completely ignore them.
I've suggested to The Honchos that all videos on Slashdot should have a "video" topic marker, so that those who don't want to watch any videos, period, will be able to completely ignore them.
Thank you Rob. I would very much like to completely block all video posts.
I would suggest that your problem is not the videos, or the dupes, or anything else. It is the drive from on high to achieve page views and ad impressions, and the crap that gets posted because of that. The only thing that keeps this site going is its history; if you started it today it would die silently.
Why don't you and your team walk away from this piece of wreckage and start over with a new site. Ask Taco to come back as consulting editor. Post the stuff that isn't rehashed crap that you can find
Done right it's cool, but apparently Slashdot's first videos have struggled a little.
The news types like it because the "content" is almost un-copyable as is; it's like Talking Head DRM. It also traps the viewer who can't use any active reading skills on it.
Meanwhile on Chessbase the new hotness is chess videos. While I haven't bought one, if it didn't come with additional actual raw games & annotations, then the video itself for some $60 would be a total rip-
Done right it's cool, but apparently Slashdot's first videos have struggled a little.
Emerging? TV isn't new, thats all this is. Slashdot's video will continue to struggle, if we came here for video, we'd be watching the news, not these douche bags expel hot air. Just because you get it on demand doesnt' make it different.
The news types like it because the "content" is almost un-copyable as is; it's like Talking Head DRM. It also traps the viewer who can't use any active reading skills on it.
Its about as un-copyable as websites that disable right click, its trivial to work around if you have a clue, and works great for the content producer if you don't, this is pretty much the same in both forms of media, the difference is that most people who have embraced
This is such a common theme, I had to comment.
Does your preference of text over multimedia mean that EVERY other person on/. has that same preference? I think emphatically not.
Just because you prefer it some way, please don't expect that to be "the way it is."
I don't like videos for the reason another person said --- takes longer than just skimming the text. Also I don't have a fast internet connection, and I'm typically downloading movies/TV shows in the background, so I don't want the overhead of a streaming video slowing things down.
Another thing I don't like is the URL games.slashdot.org. Why? Because my workplace blocks it. (I suspect the same sad fact is true for many of/.'s readers.) Changing it to something else would b
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Haven't watched them. (Score:5, Insightful)
No interest in the videos; would rather read about technology vs. watching it.
Re:Haven't watched them. (Score:5, Insightful)
Agreed, unless there is some demonstration, like this. [youtube.com] talking heads are for illiterates.
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Seconded. I want to READ stories on Slashdot. I do not want to watch another damn video, and I fail to understand why everyone seems to want to turn the entire Internet into TV 2.0 or something. Watching a video takes vastly more of my time than reading an interesting article about something, plus the intelligence level of most online video is way lower.
- Necron69
Re:Haven't watched them. (Score:5, Informative)
I've suggested to The Honchos that all videos on Slashdot should have a "video" topic marker, so that those who don't want to watch any videos, period, will be able to completely ignore them.
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Then why not make sure they go into tv.slashdot.org and stay there? It's essentially the same thing, and now that the infrastructure is there, use it.
Also, I apologize for my rather terse and harsh email.
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You could also suggest transcripts because even if the content is interesting we may not want to spend 2-3x longer hearing it rather than reading it.
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I agree - and I'm trying to get the bosses to pay the guy who's been doing them as a volunteer.
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I've suggested to The Honchos that all videos on Slashdot should have a "video" topic marker, so that those who don't want to watch any videos, period, will be able to completely ignore them.
Thank you Rob. I would very much like to completely block all video posts.
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Why don't you and your team walk away from this piece of wreckage and start over with a new site. Ask Taco to come back as consulting editor. Post the stuff that isn't rehashed crap that you can find
Re:turn the entire Internet into TV 2.0 (Score:2)
This is one of the sneakier tricks emerging.
Done right it's cool, but apparently Slashdot's first videos have struggled a little.
The news types like it because the "content" is almost un-copyable as is; it's like Talking Head DRM. It also traps the viewer who can't use any active reading skills on it.
Meanwhile on Chessbase the new hotness is chess videos. While I haven't bought one, if it didn't come with additional actual raw games & annotations, then the video itself for some $60 would be a total rip-
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This is one of the sneakier tricks emerging.
Done right it's cool, but apparently Slashdot's first videos have struggled a little.
Emerging? TV isn't new, thats all this is. Slashdot's video will continue to struggle, if we came here for video, we'd be watching the news, not these douche bags expel hot air. Just because you get it on demand doesnt' make it different.
The news types like it because the "content" is almost un-copyable as is; it's like Talking Head DRM. It also traps the viewer who can't use any active reading skills on it.
Its about as un-copyable as websites that disable right click, its trivial to work around if you have a clue, and works great for the content producer if you don't, this is pretty much the same in both forms of media, the difference is that most people who have embraced
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Does your preference of text over multimedia mean that EVERY other person on
Just because you prefer it some way, please don't expect that to be "the way it is."
Re:Haven't watched them. (Score:5, Informative)
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Mr. Sherlock:
No shit. ;-)
I don't like videos for the reason another person said --- takes longer than just skimming the text. Also I don't have a fast internet connection, and I'm typically downloading movies/TV shows in the background, so I don't want the overhead of a streaming video slowing things down.
Another thing I don't like is the URL games.slashdot.org. Why? Because my workplace blocks it. (I suspect the same sad fact is true for many of /.'s readers.) Changing it to something else would b