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What's with the super-popular youtube videos that are just slideshows??

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barney:
Maybe that's my new slogan: quality of knowledge, not quantity.
-superboyac (January 04, 2012, 02:57 PM)
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Good luck  :Thmbsup:. 

One (1) of the problems you'll encounter will be those who judge the quality.  Using your jazz example, jazz is a class, thus has no quality, per se.  Bebop, as a member of the jazz class, can be judged on quality, but it is always a relative judgment.  Personally, I'm partial to slow jazz - blue jazz? - but a bebop aficionado prolly wouldn't even consider what I like jazz.  Have a friend who's into rap.  He'll admit it fits the class description for jazz, but doesn't consider the introspective stuff I prefer to fit that class.

Any quality judgment is going to be crowd sourced (whatever that is  :P), so you may be spitting against the wind if the crowd does not appreciate your belief of the quality of some thing.  If the majority thinks it's not quality, it's not quality.  Until, that is, subsequent events show that it was, after all, quality.  But it's the immediate judgment that will hold sway, even as that judgment is being reversed.

It's a Catch 22 situation:  ya can't win, and ya can't quit  :huh:.

techidave:
I am not a big Youtube fan but over the weekend I was on there and noticed the slideshow movies.  I thought "whats with this", I mean I don't want to look at the same slide for 20 seconds before it changes.  I expect to see a video.

Maybe these are newbies trying to break into the world of Youtube??   :P

Deozaan:
Most of them I've seen are "music videos." That is, somebody wanted to put a song on YouTube but didn't have a video to go with it, so they made a slideshow that may or may not be related to the song/band so that you wouldn't be staring at a blank screen the entire time.

tranglos:
47 million views for a slideshow?  Nobody likes it, nobody cares, yet there it is...-superboyac (January 04, 2012, 02:57 PM)
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I know what you mean. Of course YouTube (i.e., Google) could easily rectify that by doing one of the following:
- show the view count only to the uploader of the video
- not show the view count together with video thumbnails (show it only on the video page proper, after you've clicked through)
- show both the view count and the like/dislike counts with video thumbnails. You'd see the impressive number of views, but you'd also see that thirty five million people hated it.

But, doing any of these things would cause a drop in pageviews, so they won't do them.

barney:
Don't they have some new rating system, voting system?  Seem to recall something about that on an RSS feed a week or so back.  Just figured it was a[nother] popularity contest, so didn't pay much attention.  YouTube doesn't get but a sliver of my time  :P.

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