This is my second post whining about this

[Debi]

but why, oh why can't people who want to post Youtube threads put them over in the video forum?

For those of us stuck on dial-up or with too little memory to run the Youtube videos it really sucks to click on threads that are all about a Youtube video and not be able to watch them or know what the hell the video is about.

Isn't that why the video forum was created? :shrug:

x(

(C'mon, my life has to be pretty go if this is all I have to complain about...right??)

[Deja Q]

1. I should look, but the video forum is full of political videos.

I like to post fun, when not utterly goofy, videos.

[Debi]

4. Would you object to a forum that was just fun, utterly goofy videos?

:think:

[mike_c]

2. HT is right-- the video forum is supposed to be RESTRICTED...

...to political vids. Mentos and diet coke vids have to be posted in the lounge.

[Debi]

3. Thank you for the clarification, maybe I should be asking the mods

for a VideoLounge forum? :shrug:

[lizziegrace]

5. Or at least indicating in the subject line

that it's a video link or just contains lyrics. These are both pet peeves of mine.

[Debi]

10. Yep, but even with that not being able to watch the video

is a PITA. :hi:

[femmocrat]

45. Likewise! I would always skip those....

as they are a waste of time for me. I really do appreciate it when posters indicate a "dial-up warning" or "pic heavy" warning.

[AmyDeLune]

6. That would be COOL!!!

Not only because I can't watch videos at work, but it would make finding them a lot easier if they were all in one place. I'd vote for it! :D

[Debi]

11. Thanks! n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

7. The YouTube forum is for political videos only.

And the YouTube threads in the Lounge only contain links, they aren't embedded. They require ridiculously little bandwidth.

Also: You don't have to click on YouTube threads, you know.

[Debi]

8. guess you've never attempted to watch them on dial-up

and then, not being able to watch them, have no idea what the hell the thread is about.

And many people post threads with Youtube links that give no indication what the link is about only writing "check this out" or "how cool would this be".

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Then don't attempt to watch them.

How would a YouTube specific forum help you be able to watch them? If oyu can't watch them here, you won't be able to watch them there, and won't be able to participate in the thread anyway.

And if you can't watch YouTube videos, does it make a difference as to whether someone posts an unlabled link to a video?

[Debi]

15. If I knew the thread contained a Youtube link I would not click on it

I would not go into the VideoLounge since I cannot view the videos and the forum would be a specific gathering place for the videos and those who enjoy posting the links.

[ghostsofgiants]

18. But you're not being forced to click on the link in a YouTube thread.

If you click on a thread and see a YouTube link, click the "back" button on your browser. Simple as that.

[Debi]

19. Yes, I agree, it is simple as that

It would also be just as simple for the person who posts the link to note that in their subject line (like the kind people who post pictures in their threads do). Or at the very least for the people who post the links to post what the link is about. Being considerate of others is simple isn't it?

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Yeah, that'd be great too.

But really, you know what this thread makes me think of? People who complain about what's on television when they could just as easily change the channel. Someone doesn't say "This is a YouTube video" in their subject line? Oh no, they've made you waste a whole few seconds of your life. It's not something worth complaining about.

There are plenty of non-YouTube threads that are just as much a waste of time as a YouTube thread that you might not be able to participate in. Have you ever clicked on a thread thinking you might be interested, but it turns out to be something completely stuipid? That happens a lot to me. it's inevitable with such an active forum. Do I whine and demand they mark their threads as "Useless shit you might not care about"? No, because I expect to come across that stuff from time to time, just as I expect to come across a YouTube thread from time to time. When I don't care, I just hit back. It's a few seconds out of my life that I'd have wasted anyway, and since you're on the same message board as me right now, you'd have probably wasted them too.

[Debi]

22. Did you happen to read my entire first post? Let me share the part I mean

to be considerate...

(C'mon, my life has to be pretty go if this is all I have to complain about...right??)

It was supposed to say 'pretty good', obviously a typo.

:hi:

I guess you could treat this treat as 'Useless shit you might not care about' from now on, couldn't you?

[ghostsofgiants]

25. You see, it's not useless shit I don't care about.

I think it's ridiculous to ask people to alter their behaviour to not annoy you when you could easily avoid the annoyance yourself, and I've got nothing better to do than argue against that, apparently.

[Debi]

26. Apparently.

But, then again, I'm just waiting for someone to post on my "I have a picture of a DUers butt" thread so what the heck. :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

28. In regards to that thread...

It really depends on the DUer whose butt you have a picture of. :P

[Debi]

29. GoPsUx....as a continuation of Crim son's Hot Repairman thread

and GoPsUx "I'm a furnace repairman" thread. I asked for a pic of his butt and, well......:rofl: now I don't quite know what to do with it.

[ghostsofgiants]

30. I'm sure others might vote yes, but I'm gonna have to go ahead and vote no on that one.

:P

[Debi]

32. Yeah, I understand

My husband is wondering why people are PMing me pictures of their butts. How does one explain that???

[ghostsofgiants]

37. Couldn't begin to tell you.

I don't have a husband, OR people PMing me pictures of their buts, haha.

[Debi]

38. Well, both are pleasant

but my husband definately wins out over a PMd butt photo.

I tried to explain it but he just doesn't understand the Lounge.

Then again, he's watching The Doral golf tournament right now. That's something I don't understand.

[Omphaloskepsis]

13. You simply miss out...

I use bittorrent to download gigs of high quality pornography, TV shows, and music.

Just hit the back button. Really, 99% of the time the links are total shit. You are not missing anything. Except the Stars Wars Kid.. That was hilarious.

[Debi]

16. Maybe someday I'll see it n/t

[idgiehkt]

9. I understand what you mean

But I enjoy those threads most of all...more than anything I like coming here and talking to people about music. If there is a separate forum for it it will just become a ghetto and have little traffic. There are many many threads here that I don't know 'what the hell they are about' as you say, because there are so many lounge 'in-jokes' from back before my my time. If a thread is offensive or annoying or just inscrutable to me I hide it. I hide many threads here every day. Different strokes for different folks, you know? I don't come in here assuming I have a right not to be annoyed. I'm not trying to be harsh, just saying I understand exactly what you are saying but for completely different reasons. There are several posters here that I hide just about every thread they post, just because most of the time I don't know what they are talking about (which may be the point, some kind of overdone quirkiness that identifies their lounge 'persona')...but I don't petition the mods asking that these folks be given their own forum because they annoy me.

[Debi]

14. So, even though you like the Youtube threads most of all

You wouldn't go to a VideoLounge Forum to watch them?

If I knew the treads contained a video link I wouldn't click on them, but very few people post the link with that warning. Usually they post ambiguous terms like 'I can't believe this' or 'Go get em buddy'. Maybe if I work on my psychic powers I will know which threads contain Youtube links and then I will hide them.

Thanks for your understanding. :hi:

[idgiehkt]

17. I think

that most people who post them wouldn't go in there...it would probably kill the posting of videos.

I see threads posted here all the time with titles like "tomato", "azul", "chicken" and you click on the cotton-pickin thing and all it says in the body of the message is "discuss". That drives me nuts. Or the 'who is the quirkiest of them all threads', etc. It's kind of a crap-shoot sometimes clicking on this stuff. You know what, though, some forums I have seen if you hold the cursor arrow over the message a little box will come up and you can read the whole message in the header, if the whole thing doesn't show...maybe people just need to be a little bit more courteous about giving more info in the header, like if it's one of those stupid "discuss" threads, they need to post "discuss thread" in the header, so I don't waste that 5 seconds of my day, lol. I think the lounge kinds of prides itself on those teaser threads though. :shrug:

[Debi]

20. I agree. The Lounge prides itself on teasing.

:hi:

[Little Wing]

23. People are already abusing the video forum with music videos

and crap from SNL. On the other hand, dial-up will eventually be eliminated, and broadband will be the norm :-)

[Debi]

24. even out in the boonies where I live???

:bounce:

[Little Wing]

33. Yep

might even be through your power lines, that's being put in place across the nation

[Debi]

36. Cannot wait!

Even our satellite has troubles on days like today when the wind comes in 'Tornado watch' gusts. Which is why I don't want to get internet by satellite.

[SPKrazy]

27. Video Forum Restricted To Political Videos

music vids wouldn't be allowed there

[Debi]

34. Rules, rules, rules, rules...

who here follows those? :eyes:

[SPKrazy]

39. Well, the lounge is pretty lax

but the vids will just get deleted if they don't comply there

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. I just wish the assholes would actually say what the fucking video is about.

That would make me happy.

[Debi]

35. Your happiness is important to me Rabrrrrrr! n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

40. A better solution would be to include "YouTube" in the subject line...

That way, the video forum is not abused, and those who wish to ignore YuouTube threads can do so.

[Debi]

41. Yes, that would be a considerate thing for video posters to do

the same way picture thread posters do. :hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. I'll be more conscientious about it in the future, myself...

I haven't been diligent about posting dial-up warnings... :hi:

[Debi]

46. Thanks! n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. Much like I've been trying to five years to get people to put "song lyrics" in subject lines

of posts that only have song lyrics in them, and no actual anything worthy of discussion.

No, really, please post more heartfelt deep political analysis songs by Oasis or other liberal hip band du jour.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. We used to have a public radio commentator who would analyze

Beatles, Dylan, Mitchell, and so forth on a show called "Songs for Aging Children"

But it always seemed to me that when you listen to the music with the lyrics of a great song, you understand all that's between the lines, including those things that cannot be expressed with words.

Listening to someone BS about music is like listening to someone in an art gallery talk about brush strokes evoking ethereal images. I just want to tell them to shut up and look!

[Mad_Dem_X]

47. I can't play YouTube videos here at work

So when there are video threads, I miss out anyway. :(

[Shell Beau]

48. Oops!! I never even knew there was a video forum!!

:o