You certainly can, it may get seen eventually. But I'm not going to sit through an hour of someone else's content to figure out what point your trying to make.
If you won't even put some effort in and write your own thoughts out, why should I spend my time researching what you think?
It's the lack of effort that bothers me. Especially when my time is limited.
If you won't even put some effort in and write your own thoughts out, why should I spend my time researching what you think?
Pointing to someone else as a reference is one thing; but the completely no effort "here's some links, you do all the work" is almost insulting.
Imagine if Wikipedia removed all the actual info and just kept the reference links. I'm here for the actual info, I didn't visit to be told where I can go to find it. I'll look at the references if I need further clarification, and have the time/energy/desire to do so.
They could have summarized the point in a couple paragraphs instead of demanding I waste an hour of my time to be able to respond at all. First I'd have to actually have that much free time; which I haven't had today until just now.
Video is the least convenient way to share information. For example, it's impossible to skim a video to see if it's something you're interested in or to find the information you're looking for. With text it's easy to do a quick skim to see if it's something worth your time.
Well, you're basically describing a summary, versus a detail, response.
The person posting the video links was giving a detail response, and not a summary response.
Instead of repeating everything in detail in text of what the videos state (which would be time intensive and duplication of effort) just see the videos instead.
Even a sentence or two would help me judge if it's worth my time. If I'm in public and don't have headphones I'm not watching a video, especially if I have no idea what it is. If you tell me why I should care about the video I might make a note to watch it when I get home.
Secondly, I'm not just going to click a random link. I have no idea if it's even relevant or a bot or a troll who just puts the links in every thread they come across.
which would be time intensive
The 5 minutes it would take them to type a quick summary is much less time intensive than the hour it would take everyone who sees the post to watch the videos and see if they care.