Update By LinusTech on the LTT Forums
Great to see this transparency. It was a bumpy road but gamersnexus held them accountable and everyone improves. It’s a good community
Eh, this seems a little half-assed, IMO. There’s no adjustment for error magnitude in relation to the rest of the video content. If they fuck up a basic stat on an informational video, it can easily have a more significant effect of viewers than a major error on a niche topic in a long, multi-topic video.
This works into the whole prioritization portion of the post. Many of the things they classify as “low severity” and only warranting a pinned comment could lead to completely different behavior. Example:
- Very Low Severity
- The statement could possibly be misunderstood, but it’s generally true and most people would be fine with how it’s currently presented.
- eg. The host says, “One of DisplayPort’s main advantages over HDMI is its higher bandwidth,” but this is only true when comparing certain generations of the standards. HDMI 2.1, for example, has much higher bandwidth than DP 1.1.
If the whole video is on the differences between HDMI and DP, this statement is completely opposite of the truth on a basic, primary statistic. The connector’s ONLY purpose is to transfer data, which is rate and bandwidth. The erroneous statement is an absolute - something IS something. All LTT needs to do is add, “some versions” or “generally”. THEN it becomes a softer interpretation error.
- DP’s bandwidth is GENERALLY higher than HDMI’s? Let me look up when this statement doesn’t hold true…
- DP bandwidth IS HIGHER than HDMI? Guess I don’t need to look up that info because they’re presenting it as a universal truth.
Purchasing decision time… That GPU has 3x HDMI and 1x DP ports? Well, I’m not sure about these other stats, but I know that HDMI sucks compared to DP, so I can eliminate all the GPUs with more HDMI ports than DP ports. I guess I’m getting this 5 year old GPU with 1xHDMI and 3x DP ports instead.
If that mistake was in a 30 minute news video covering 8 stories and the statement was an aside, okay, maybe a pinned comment.
In reality, all these errors should be easy to correct, but that’s hampered by YouTube’s tools. LTT should be able to replace a small segment of video with a cut away to stock or b-roll and a voiceover with the correct information. But, you can’t do that on YT.
Another alternative, if the information is insignificant enough for only a pinned comment, is to simply mute that 2-3 seconds of video. If the misstatement was significant enough that muting it makes the rest of the video tough to follow, then the mistake wasn’t small enough for a pin.
Consider crossposting this to !linustechtips@lemmy.ml for wider community engagement as that community currently has more subscribers than here. Hopefully the mod over there is reasonable this time and agrees this is fantastic progress in the right direction.
I mean, I’d rather help build another community with Blackjack and LLTStore.com personally, but I fully support anyone who wants to cross post there!
Except the top mod of that community has had a clear public vendetta against LTT since the start of this fiasco. To the point of locking threads of legitimate relevance to LTT, changing the community thumbnail to a pic of Maddison, and renaming the community to ‘lienus tech tips’ (looks like that name change has been reverted).
lemmy.ml needs a forum for requesting a community or something, it’s really bullshit
Looks very comprehensive so far, nice to see that error correction will be taken seriously moving forward.
I really hope they slow down the video release pace when they start uploading again, don’t want the hosts to suffer from burnout or anything
To be honest, I’m less concerned about speed, and more about the working conditions at LMG and the quality/accuracy of their videos. I think the sentiment is the same, but I don’t think speed, in and of itself, is a bad thing.
