What do you think if Bitcointalk accepted videos?

[Lucius]

I think that such a feature should somehow be limited to at least the Member+ rank, because there should be no doubt that otherwise there will be those who will abuse such a feature.

How about limiting it to only certain boards? Or even just one, so the rest of the forum stays nice and quiet.

If the forum would enable this feature and then limit it to only one board, I think that something similar would happen to us as with the Press board, which only two users turned into their private board for spamming links. Therefore, I think it would be better if such a feature were available in most boards (some may be exempt), with the rule that low ranks cannot use this feature.

That does not look presentable! That kind of predicament will not give an assurance to anyone unless a rank holder like you presents it. I have not been able to do such a thing with my posts or topics as I am only a small rank holder. If there is a way to show the video within the forum by only those who are ranked Sr Member and above then it will be good. There are a lot of users who have been awakened in my signature campaign and these guys were not a part of the forum when the merit system was implemented. If you give access to full member and above then we might see a lot spam content in the forum.

I honestly don't understand what you meant with what you wrote. Are you actually saying that you can't do what I did (the way I presented the video)? You have a Senior rank and can easily post pictures on the forum, but what you lack is a way to do it. This option does not exist in the post options and you have to create it yourself, but this is how the code looks, so you can try it.

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[Sandra_hakeem]

I'm not sure if the length of the embedded videos can put significant stress on the resources of this forum or not ^{[especially since they're hosted somewhere else]}, but I think a maximum of three minutes would be more than enough for covering a lot of things.

it definitely will.. hosting videos on a different site isn't totally free; but that's not even the problem -- atleast not for a start... Every development normally requires a headstart.

[promise444c5]

If the forum would enable this feature and then limit it to only one board, I think that something similar would happen to us as with the Press board, which only two users turned into their private board for spamming links. Therefore, I think it would be better if such a feature were available in most boards (some may be exempt), with the rule that low ranks cannot use this feature.

What  about the controls
I think it should be focus auto play or are we suggesting  using a play button if interested

[Myleschetty]

The idea of the forum supporting the addition of videos is a good one but there should be a certain restriction for newbies in using the features and the forum should prevent autoplay of the video and download which is so annoying whenever I use some online website.
Another one is to prevent the user from using the video features to send malicious attacks which could lead to lost of crypto.

[Smilevictorobinna]

as long as the video doesnt autoplay im good with it. i like static pages. and ill hit youtube for videos if im in the mood

Video's are very educative especially when you are trying to learn a new thing or something you know but not familiar with.

I recently join one challenge on the forum known as " 100 push-ups A Day Until Bitcoin is $100k"
At first when I started the challenge I was not doing the push ups correctly so I decided to go on YouTube and I found a push ups video that helped me and I started doing it correctly in a proper manner.

So either ways if Bitcointalk accepts video is fine it will help more in pass quality information but since is not provided yet one can always visit YouTube like I did and get any information and also post the link in the forum so people can click and it will lead them to were they can watch it.

[nakamura12]

not all forums do have this kind of functionality but having a video that can be played without going out of the forum will encourage deeper discussions. videos are good topic starter, especially with the news that is happening all over the world or even just the videos of crypto influencers, they are increasing too.

and most of all why it's a great idea is because we can finally post memes from twitter and youtube here once it's put into action.

If there are people who find a topic hard to understand then a video of instructions would really help that person. Although I am not against the idea of bitcointalk accepting videos but we know that there are people who make videos where the information or content of the video is fake or having wrong information which doesn't do any good at all in my opinion. There's also the situation where of someone quoted a psot with video then it will load unless it is set not to automatically play or videos only show when it is posted and won't show when someone quote the post with a video.

[Cryptomultiplier]

not all forums do have this kind of functionality but having a video that can be played without going out of the forum will encourage deeper discussions. videos are good topic starter, especially with the news that is happening all over the world or even just the videos of crypto influencers, they are increasing too.

and most of all why it's a great idea is because we can finally post memes from twitter and youtube here once it's put into action.

If there are people who find a topic hard to understand then a video of instructions would really help that person. Although I am not against the idea of bitcointalk accepting videos but we know that there are people who make videos where the information or content of the video is fake or having wrong information which doesn't do any good at all in my opinion. There's also the situation where of someone quoted a psot with video then it will load unless it is set not to automatically play or videos only show when it is posted and won't show when someone quote the post with a video.

I just think that accepting videos here would breach the gap between here being a community and being a social media platform, of which is no different from TikTok and Instagram or YouTube.
I like this conventional idea that has somehow taught many great lessons and has provided insight into future prospects. If this gets turned into an app that be downloaded freely, the infusion of video playback options wouldn't be a bad idea still.

[Hispo]

I personally like the idea of having a way to embed some video from YouTube or other platform here or directly uploading it and keep it static until someone here decided to watch and play it here on the forum without redirecting to a third party website.
Though, since we are talking about videos being used for educational purposes and in order to make Bitcoin information to it more widespread amount newbies in the forum, then I must point out the obvious and say such a feature is likely to be used by some members to share videos with devious quality and could be mostly untopic.
I know was a matter of fact, such feature to embed videos on the forum would be heavily used in the politics & society section of the forum to spice up political debates and even misinformation/ conspiracy theories.

Rather than seeing people posting mostly educative and useful tutorials and technological news about Bitcoin and alternative currencies, this would be a boost for ANN designers, people from the Off topic section and some advertisers in the forum.

It is kind of similar to what people used to say about the use of deepfakes to influence polítics and governance, when in reality artificial Inteligence and deepfakes are being overwhelmingly being used to produce pornography.