Comment by sinatra | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sinatra | Hacker News Reader

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I'm glad to hear that all the problems in the world you see, you take charge and solve them. On your own. Always!

The original post said, "(YouTube is) a store of culture almost. A wealth of information and video would be lost, like rare videos which are only on youtube."

So, they should just save ALL the videos on YouTube that they think represent the culture of our times. Got it. If they think there are few petabytes of videos that are worthy of archiving, they should buy storage for them all. If they don't do so, then they are lazy. They weren't talking about one video, mind you.

ps, this comment of mine is not as polite as I want my comments to be. But, when you're calling people lazy and sitting on their butt, I think it's okay to write a not-so-polite comment.

>> ps, this comment of mine is not as polite as I want my comments to be. But, when you're calling people lazy and sitting on their butt, I think it's okay to write a not-so-polite comment.

Oh I understand. I held back a bit too. You're being an extremist with your comments about taking charge, and Always! And no, I don't propose the OP download the whole of what he sees as "culture to be preserved" from YouTube. Why do you insist on taking a simple concept to such an extreme?

We can all try to change the world a little bit. I'd prefer the world to be certain ways. While I can't make it that way for everyone I can set an example and influence the small area around me. In a similar way, if someone thinks a set of videos should be preserved they can save some themself - that does not mean they become an archivist for the Smithsonian.

While I was being a bit snarky, the sitting on their butt comment was meant to point out that a person watching YouTube is literally doing that. Most things people want to change do take more effort than that.

I'm taking the time to write for the same reason - I don't like when people are such extremists in their thinking (all or nothing) so I'm hoping to change a small part of the world (you) in a tiny way. If you still think people can't be the change they want I'll offer you this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7E973zozc

And no, I didn't save a copy for myself ;-) But I am doing my part to promote something I think has some value.

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