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SomethingUnrelated

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Prior to joing the Escapist website, my primary site was Youtube, which still comes pretty high up on the list. I got used to the ways of people there, and accepted most of them. However, when I joined this site, I was exposed to so much more intelligent responses to people's opinions, including balanced responses, the like of which are very rare on youtube. It's quite a contrast to the "Lol! This r gud vid, u r a g0d!" or "Dis r suk u must dai cuz u r bad at vidios", commonly found there. It just goes to show that different types of people can be found on different sites.

So yeah, I was just posting to state that fact, as well as enquire if anyone else has noticed anything similar, or if anyone has any thoughts on the subject?

Oh, and i'm not bashing all youtube users. Some (sadly, a minority), do have more than a speck of brain. But the rest don't really.
 

Ciarang

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How is it possible to have youtube comments as your primary site ? xD
 
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Yes, I must admit I was rather taken aback by the intelligent responses I received when first here. It meant that I actually had to try if I wanted to be able to win an argument. On Youtube an argument is fundamentally unwinnable, because idiots are not susceptible to reason.
 

Gerazzi

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More Fun To Compute said:
There are paramecium more intelligent than the average youtube commenter.
I fixed it.


Anyway, it's not because they don't have intelligence, I'm sure. I think it's because they're lazy as hell. I mean think about it, if we could use the Youtube commentators as real life people numbers, I'd start to worry about society.
 

Skeleon

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Duh, flub-lub-lub-lub. *flips his finger repeatedly on his lips*
We's intelligence! You's not!

Or, to be more concise:

I have met stupid people on YouTube.
I have met stupid people on The Escapist.
I have met smart people on YouTube.
I have met smart people on The Escapist.

I do not know the precise percentages of these, though.
 

SilentStranger

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I dont consider myself all that smart, I just have a basic grasp of grammar and a high school education level of intelligence, which is apparently more than the average YouTube user
 

Et3rnalLegend64

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Skeleon said:
Duh, flub-lub-lub-lub. *flips his finger repeatedly on his lips*
We's intelligence! You's not!

Or, to be more concise:

I have met stupid people on YouTube.
I have met stupid people on The Escapist.
I have met smart people on YouTube.
I have met smart people on The Escapist.

I do not know the precise percentages of these, though.
I'd like to break the "Youtube is made of morons" thing too. You meet lots of idiots on more of the senseless or random videos (at least in my experience). If you just try to get some good music, then the rare troll will be shot down quickly when someone says to ignore him. The spelling can be touched up a little in places, but the viewers are fine for the most part.
 

Flushfacker

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You will find most Escapists actually frequent YouTube as well, who doesn't from time to time? I just dont understand the point in commenting on the videos in the first place, or reading the comments for that matter, why would I care what some random anon thought of the video, thats what star ratings are for.
 

cyber_andyy

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Skeleon said:
I have met stupid people on YouTube.
I have met stupid people on The Escapist.
I have met smart people on YouTube.
I have met smart people on The Escapist.
^This^
there are smart people on youtube, just a smaller percentage. Just like morons on the escapist.