I appreciate you being the 1/8 to actually state their reason!
Everything seemed pretty self-explanatory to me in a community like this since:
- Videogame critiques on youtube are quite popular (and have been for years)
- Joseph Anderson is one of the most popular video game critics. His (second!) Fallout 4 critique has 10+ million views
- Lies of P is a very popular game which came out this year, and souls-likes in general are very popular games which people love to talk about
Also I wholehartedly disagree with downvoting something as spam when you have no idea what it is. And why do you need me to tell you what “we’re” doing here? It’s not for me to say whether this is a thread for roasting the game or praising it or anything else. I’m not sure I could even think of a more clear, straightforward title (and it’s simply the video title).
I also don’t feel it’s my obligation to share my thoughts on something I post. As OP I prefer for people to think for themselves and form their own opinion about the content.
I find your resistance to offering thoughts on the things you share in a forum strange, because you seem friendly and well spoken. Just a quick sentence describing what this video was and why you wanted people to see it probably would have got you my upvote instead.
Joseph Anderson may have millions of views, but I’m not in those millions. I never heard of the guy until you posted this. So all I had to go on was that its something about Lies of P and it’s 48 minutes long. That’s a lot of time to spend on figuring out whether a random Internet post is worthwhile or not. Cute cat pictures can stand on their own, those only take a second to look at and tell if they’re good or bad, but a long form video really needs some context before I can say whether I’m interested in seeing it or boosting it to other people. And if I don’t have the context to say whether the post is good, I’ll downvote it to make room for the posts that are definitely good.
I think I said something a bit stronger than what I meant. I’m not averse to sharing my thoughts on posts, I’ve just never held it against a post if the OP happens to not provide some comment containing their thoughts on it.
I do see what you’re saying about not knowing what something is, and not wanting to spend ~1 hour on it to find out. Though I still don’t think that’s what downvoting is for (unless you have positive evidence that it’s spam).
Mainly I disagree with “I’ll downvote it to make room for the posts that are definitely good”. That’s just very much not my philosophy and not one I ever took to be a majority view. Downvoting for me means the content is not good/appropriate/whatever. It’s a sign of negativity, and being not definitely good != being bad.
Also I wholehartedly disagree with downvoting something as spam when you have no idea what it is.
The fact that it’s not clear what it is or why it deserves to be posted is what makes it spam. Ambiguous titles with no user participation cannot be quality posts.
On the other side, spammers could add a quick sentence to a low value video, making it “valid” if that’s the criteria used
