Gregory's Server@holothuroid honestly for me the most common would be v;dw — video, didn't watch. Could also be v;cr — video, can't read. Sick of people sharing a video explanation of something, rather than just telling.
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 @jks @holothuroid after typing my post I also realised v;cr is fun for the whole VCR link :)  @Setok @jks @holothuroid I'm thinking a site-specific ad-blocker rule for the <video> tag might be helpful here. I particularly detest when you scroll past the clip and it pops up in a sidebar like I wasn't trying to ignore it. @Setok @jks @holothuroid My current approach is to inspect something close, like a frame or a drop shadow around the clip, then step up to the enclosing tag (often an iframe) and delete the damn thing. It doesn't happen quite often enough for a custom ublock rule, but I'm on the cusp. @alan @jks @holothuroid this is the real stuff we need to get AI working on: shutting down the annoying crap on the web. (Actually a previous company of mine, Attractive.ai, was almost on that mission) @Setok @jks @holothuroid Once this third bubble of AI bursts and generative AI goes back into the lab where it belongs for a few years, that sounds like a useful application (although it will never attract VC because it's effectively counter-culture and anti-capitalist). It would make a decent FOSS project though.  @jks @Setok @holothuroid These are all so good. Certainly more polite than my “send me a f##%ing transcript so I can scroll past all the useless nonsense”. 🙃 @Setok @holothuroid I think you should read this thread from one of the best YouTubers I know, who also almost quit fedi because of "v;dw" people: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/113007851768929530 @stepan @holothuroid I have nothing against someone making a video. But I have every right to be frustrated if I’m forced to watch it to find info about a product or instructions. Many times those videos are done not because YouTube is somehow an amazing place for that, but to get clicks and subscribers and, thus, money. Often even the post about the video doesn’t give you the basics, ‘the spoiler’, so as to get views. I also have every right to then react with v;dw. @stepan @holothuroid the video itself might be fine. Even great. But if I have to watch it to find about your product, I won’t. Perhaps some work that way, I don’t. So you get things like “The number one reason you shouldn’t buy the Austin Elektra EV! Click video”. Rather than just, you know, typing out the thing. Or “Learn how to build a door!”. A video, whereas following a static document with pictures and text is way easier. It’s obvious many do it for Tubefame. |
@Setok @holothuroid I've been using tv;dw (too video; didn't watch) to stay in the four-character format.
I blame the Google Wave product launch in ca. 2009 which insinuated that you can't understand the product by reading alone, you had to watch the video. (Not even the video helped people get it.)