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I think people may just be hyper-sensitive because of that article about Mozilla foundation’s finances that came out a few weeks ago (which the maker of the video clearly cribbed from at one point).

FWIW, I think the article raised some pretty valid points, and I didn’t agree with all the hate that it got, so I’ve got no issue with including the points in the video. If I were to provide some constructive criticism for the video, I would say it should dive into more of the factual basis behind a lot of these things, providing some analysis, as opposed to just touching on twenty different subjects throwing a little drop of shade at Firefox for each one and then moving on to the next one right away.

Edit: Also, trying to set rules for other people’s behavior, that they’re not permitted by you to comment or downvote until they’ve watched the whole video, is a little clickbait-y and mostly likely to just irritate people, no matter how valid or invalid is the “requirement” that you’re trying to get them to follow.

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A lot of video platforms judge the quality of a video and promote it or not according to how long people watch, so if people obey things like “Watch until the end,” it has the effect of rigging the metrics so that it’ll get spread more widely (as compared with a video that people click away from whenever they personally feel they’ve seen enough.) That’s why that type of statement is clickbait-y; I’m not saying that was your intent in saying it, just that that’s the impact it has and why some people react negatively to it.

What are these important things he said at the end? Why are you resisting just laying out the high-level theses of the video in a manner that people can digest in a minute or two? This whole approach of coming out of the gate ordering people to devote 15 minutes of their time watching a video, whether they decide based on watching a little bit that they want to finish it or not, is just being commanding to people and incredibly disrespectful of their time. I think that’s probably the main reason you’re getting a negative reaction.

I’ll put it this way: I generally agreed with a wildly popular (edit: unpopular) “anti-Mozilla” post if you want to call it that, I devoted enough time to watch the majority of this video before I decided I’d had enough, I devoted enough time to neutrally summarize some of its points to people and I agree with the validity of some of them. Personally I prefer Chrome over Librewolf. As not at all a “Firefox fan,” there were also definitely elements of this video that moderately pissed me off. Mainly I’m trying to relate to you why I think this post is getting a negative reaction. I can’t make you want to hear that if you’ve already decided to yourself what’s what, but that was my feeling if you’re open to hearing it.

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So:

  • You don’t want to invest the time to communicate your point effectively, even when people specifically ask you to tell them what you’re saying
  • You don’t want to hear other what other people have to say to broaden your own point of view, if they “think they know better.”

Sounds like a recipe for a lot of frustrating interactions to me.

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Yep, and I just wanted to share with you how you might be able to successfully share this with others, instead of just getting downvotes and resistance. But you’re clearly not interested right now. Good luck.

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Most people don’t appreciate link posts without summaries of the content. I’m one of these people. I don’t like clicking links unless I know at least an idea of what’s on the other side of the link. Is it worth my time? Is it worth my attention? Providing summaries of linked content gives a start to the conversation and keeps us from turning this forum into a clickbait-filled platform.

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^^^^^ 100%

Seems to be a common thing, look in the Foss, Linux communities people post links to stuff and not even a few lines of a basic description. If people want engagement give us some information …

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