• moseschrute@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        What’s the threshold for when a video is too long and requires a timestamp? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? 20 minutes?

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          1 hour ago

          If it’s a video. I fcuking hate when I’m trying to find a tutorial, or recipe, or some other help and the results are people recording their screens while they dick around with zero subtitles or chapter headings.

          I can scan text for the relevant part within seconds. I’m not interested in two minutes of WHATS UP LADIES AND GENTS, missing the crucial step because it looks so similar to the irrelevant steps either side, lack of subtitles for my poor hearing, or hard to see on my tiny phone screen etc.

          Videos are easy tutorials/references to prepare because you have all these channels of information you can use simultaneously. They are the hardest medium to find specific information in because they use so many channels of information.

          I think that videos are enjoyable to consume, but they’re not good at passing on information, especially if the recipient is resistant already (because you’re asking them to do extra work to support your point).

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    8 hours ago

    I’ll wait until someone who knows just replies the answer to me, kthx. [sinks bait back down]

    And people will, too. People love sharing knowledge. Whether it be altruistic or self-affirming. Heck, I’ve necro-bumped stuff just to add some tid-bits, myself.

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      6 hours ago

      You have to post a wrong answer on an alt so that someone will post the correct answer to look smart. It’s called Poe’s Law.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    How would you know you can find the answer there if you hadn’t already read it and therefore know the answer?

    • CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      Maybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was.

      This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.

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        3 hours ago

        This is it exactly. I know it is there, but I’m hazy on what it was exactly and it needs to be 100% right.

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    23 minutes ago

    A few months ago a Lemmy user stridently demanded sources for a comment I posted. Since he literally could have found the information with less effort by a Google search and I refused to do it for him. Other Lemmy users argued that I should be this dope’s reference librarian, and another guy actually did the Google search for him and posted the results.

    People are astoundingly lazy and even many Lemmy users want to be spoon-fed.