Name: Anonymous 2010-04-14 9:52
This entire new layout really is the last straw.
I know one person leaving youtube won't prove a point at all, and I don't care about that at all. But this is it. I don't know how many times not only youtube, but facebook or myspace or any other website has changed all of a sudden with seemingly bizarre redesigns: in this case, completely taking away the ratings system, making the layout in general very boring to look at, making the comments section completely illogical (I don't really care what the highest-rated comment on a video is. There's no point to knowing, just give a chronological order of comments, and that's it), and just changing it into a streamlined, stagnant-looking bore of a website.
And you have to (dis)like the video to see what others have liked/disliked? That has to be one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard. So in essence, you're giving a video more playtime and popularity just to see how popular it is or if it's a bad-quality video?
One good thing about the 5-star ratings is that it gave a mean of what a video was rated; besides what Google thinks, there were actually videos that were rated somewhere in-between 1 and 5. That was a good way to know as soon as you see the video in the search rather it'd be a have-to-watch video, something worth it to watch, some crappily-made video, or something not to waste your time on. And now that that's gone, you have to ADD A VIEW to a video that should otherwise not be paid attention to.
The good thing about youtube before Google's purchase is that Youtube felt like what it claimed to be; a community. The heads of Youtube listened to what the community had to say. If there was a problem, it was fixed and once something changed, we know they'd listen and if the changes weren't liked, we know that it'd be changed back if the majority didn't like it.
With Google's acquisition, it's not so. As long as Google is in control, Google does what Google wants, only to leave the "community" with a glimpse of hope that what they say actually matters.
I understand that Google's a business, also. And that they need ad revenue to survive to account for its massive bandwidth usage. But for god's sake, to have ads almost EVERYWHERE on videos is freaking overkill! And the constant bending down to large corporations just because a small scene is played from their movie or a soundbyte was used from a song by the WMG. Why MUTE an entire video just because a song's used? Or completely delete a video/delete an account because a part of a movie is used? If an aspiring movie critic can't use a part of a movie because he can't afford to get the copyrights gets removed, then how does one survive or prosper?
Once again, I know just because one person is leaving youtube won't make a different. But really, this is the last straw. A good way to make youtube better is to remove Google altogether from it. Youtube was big before it acquired it and it could still be big without it. Just give us the "community" back in the Youtube community.
I know one person leaving youtube won't prove a point at all, and I don't care about that at all. But this is it. I don't know how many times not only youtube, but facebook or myspace or any other website has changed all of a sudden with seemingly bizarre redesigns: in this case, completely taking away the ratings system, making the layout in general very boring to look at, making the comments section completely illogical (I don't really care what the highest-rated comment on a video is. There's no point to knowing, just give a chronological order of comments, and that's it), and just changing it into a streamlined, stagnant-looking bore of a website.
And you have to (dis)like the video to see what others have liked/disliked? That has to be one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard. So in essence, you're giving a video more playtime and popularity just to see how popular it is or if it's a bad-quality video?
One good thing about the 5-star ratings is that it gave a mean of what a video was rated; besides what Google thinks, there were actually videos that were rated somewhere in-between 1 and 5. That was a good way to know as soon as you see the video in the search rather it'd be a have-to-watch video, something worth it to watch, some crappily-made video, or something not to waste your time on. And now that that's gone, you have to ADD A VIEW to a video that should otherwise not be paid attention to.
The good thing about youtube before Google's purchase is that Youtube felt like what it claimed to be; a community. The heads of Youtube listened to what the community had to say. If there was a problem, it was fixed and once something changed, we know they'd listen and if the changes weren't liked, we know that it'd be changed back if the majority didn't like it.
With Google's acquisition, it's not so. As long as Google is in control, Google does what Google wants, only to leave the "community" with a glimpse of hope that what they say actually matters.
I understand that Google's a business, also. And that they need ad revenue to survive to account for its massive bandwidth usage. But for god's sake, to have ads almost EVERYWHERE on videos is freaking overkill! And the constant bending down to large corporations just because a small scene is played from their movie or a soundbyte was used from a song by the WMG. Why MUTE an entire video just because a song's used? Or completely delete a video/delete an account because a part of a movie is used? If an aspiring movie critic can't use a part of a movie because he can't afford to get the copyrights gets removed, then how does one survive or prosper?
Once again, I know just because one person is leaving youtube won't make a different. But really, this is the last straw. A good way to make youtube better is to remove Google altogether from it. Youtube was big before it acquired it and it could still be big without it. Just give us the "community" back in the Youtube community.