Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah yes. Dullingshires law
I think you mean Cunningham's Law...
I always knew it as oddsockmachine's law.
Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
71–80 of 101 posts
Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
An independent creator can easily get paid by making a long YouTube video. It is almost impossible to get paid by making long or short web articles. Inb4 "They shouldn't want to make money and just publish their articles for free" Inb4 "People should only be creative online as a side hobby when they are comfortably employed"
You can still make money writing blog or article if you have a sponsor. Just because you are on some platform it doesn't mean you will get free visitors. Its very competitive. You need to be among the top creators to be featured on YouTube et.al. Almost all creators have sponsors because you make so little money on the ads because the platform takes a crazy huge cut. The platforms are just middlemen rent seekers prof…
[deleted]
Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've noticed this too, it's becoming somewhat infamous that modern YouTube videos are all these 1+ hour long 'video essays' on topics which could easily be replaced with 2-3 page articles to be read in half the time. While back in the day a long video essay was usually borne out of necessity and thus information-dense and high-quality—not unlike a documentary, actually—it feels like length itself is an objective for…
An independent creator can easily get paid by making a long YouTube video. It is almost impossible to get paid by making long or short web articles. Inb4 "They shouldn't want to make money and just publish their articles for free" Inb4 "People should only be creative online as a side hobby when they are comfortably employed"
Just because you can make money a certain way doesn’t make it right to do so
Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
#74Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
#75I'll provide some background for people that aren't familiar with the game. It's an online vehicular combat game where you pilot tanks, planes, helicopters and warships. The vehicles range from pre-WW2 to modern. The game aims for realistic vehicle specifications, like armour thickness, penetration values etc. For older, actually real vehicles, that information is more easily available. For modern, classified vehicle…
Going to hijack the top comment to provide my own observations as a player As a War Thunder player myself, here is some insights off the top of my head I can provide from the player base point of view, and as someone who has also submitted documentation to the devs to fix historical inaccuracies of some vehicles in the game... -Players can submit bug reports for vehicles, reporting incorrect characteristics, missing…
They also hava big bias towards Russian vehicles.
They take wildly inaccurate propaganda numbers and implement them, but nerf the numbers on US vehicles where they exist plenty of actual data from the manufacturer itself in many cases.
See for example 2S38 vs HSTVL & RDF/LT
Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can still make money writing blog or article if you have a sponsor. Just because you are on some platform it doesn't mean you will get free visitors. Its very competitive. You need to be among the top creators to be featured on YouTube et.al. Almost all creators have sponsors because you make so little money on the ads because the platform takes a crazy huge cut. The platforms are just middlemen rent seekers prof…
You can. But it's much easier to be a YouTuber – and it's not only the top creators who get paid. Which is easier of these choices: Talking or writing? Uploading to YouTube or publishing to a blog? Building an audience of millions or already having them on the platform? Considering that online creativity should be for everybody and not just hacker and academic types. > The platforms are just middlemen rent seekers pr…
It's not just uploading a video... you are right about there's a loot of high quality videos, those take more work then writing a blog post though, several hours of video is cut down to minutes of content.
But the platform takes most of the ad money, almost all professional Youtubers have sponsors.
I still argue that you would be better off publishing content on your own website, but one problem is people now a day don't actually search for content, we are mindless zombies fed by algoritms, where most videos are just "clickbait".
Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
#77I remember a time when crossing the 10 minute mark was really stretching it on YouTube. Nowadays most videos hit the 1 hour mark... I'm not sure if this is what the market demands, or this is just Google nudging creators in this direction. Fortunately people still make short videos, like this (relevant) one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0WWbpBxLCI
It's exactly backwards, YouTube favours short videos and frequent uploads. People doing long videos do it purely out of passion. The claim that most videos nowadays are hitting the one hour mark is trivially false.
Not really true anymore. Creators have talked about how youtube's incentive structure is pushing towards longer videos now. Not necessarily higher-quality ones, and posting more volume is still generally going to help, but because youtube's now optimising for watch time instead of views, long videos are pretty heavily rewarded. (In fact, as always, the high-effort but short content like animations are the least 'efficient' genre on youtube).
Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
An independent creator can easily get paid by making a long YouTube video. It is almost impossible to get paid by making long or short web articles. Inb4 "They shouldn't want to make money and just publish their articles for free" Inb4 "People should only be creative online as a side hobby when they are comfortably employed"
Just because you can make money a certain way doesn’t make it right to do so
Of course it's right of them to make money from YouTube videos. It doesn't hurt anyone.
Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can. But it's much easier to be a YouTuber – and it's not only the top creators who get paid. Which is easier of these choices: Talking or writing? Uploading to YouTube or publishing to a blog? Building an audience of millions or already having them on the platform? Considering that online creativity should be for everybody and not just hacker and academic types. > The platforms are just middlemen rent seekers pr…
It's not just uploading a video... you are right about there's a loot of high quality videos, those take more work then writing a blog post though, several hours of video is cut down to minutes of content. But the platform takes most of the ad money, almost all professional Youtubers have sponsors. I still argue that you would be better off publishing content on your own website, but one problem is people now a day d…
For the YouTuber who is merely talking into the camera, it is mostly just a matter of uploading a video. How would he be better off making a website and publishing the content there? It would be difficult to find an audience and almost impossible to get paid. I agree that it would make more sense for this content to be a textual article, but until better monetization opportunities and easier publishing becomes available for people, they are going to keep recording themselves talking into the camera.
> but one problem is people now a day don't actually search for content, we are mindless zombies fed by algoritms
People choose to be like that. Think of it like a supermarket: Up in front is the worst kind of garbage "food", literal sewage that will destroy your health while living and kill you prematurely. In the back you have the highest quality produce and ingredients in abundance. You can go to the back of the supermarket and enjoy the benefits of having this broad access. Or do like most people and go to the front shelves and fill up your cart with poison. It's a choice.
Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure the answer is ads. "Long-form" content has more opportunities to insert ads or sponsored content. There's not a lot of money to be made being quick and to the point. People's viewing habits have also changed in response, rather than having the algorithm bounce them around they'd rather half-pay-attention to a 3 hour video. But I think the trend of ever-growing video lengths was spawned by a desire for mor…
Youtube used to add mid-roll ads to videos that were at least 10 minutes, so your video would basically make twice as much if you stretched it that long. I think the threshold is 8 minutes nowadays. Short form is hard to monetize (if you are Google 8 years ago) since you need to split ad revenue and attribution among the several videos you watch between ads. This goes against a ton of prior trends in the ad industry…
> Youtube used to add mid-roll ads to videos that were at least 10 minutes
YouTube used to not let you go over 10 minutes at all, but that's a very long time ago now. You'd get guides split up into "... Part 3 of 7"