People should not be allowed to comment on videos unless they've watched the entire thing
Summary
A straphanger has a bold proposal: platforms shouldn't let you comment on videos unless you've watched the whole thing. She tells Kareem that people keep asking questions already answered later in the video, which is just lazy. The conversation spirals into sheep versus wolves, independent thinking versus following the herd, and whether shepherds are conformists. It gets biblical. Then she adds another rule: no sending videos to the group chat unless you've actually watched them first, because she values proper conversation over engagement. They decide to test her theory by planting a code word at the end, "karma," so viewers can prove they made it through. She promises to respond to everyone who comments it.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? People should not be allowed to comment on videos unless they've watched the entire thing.
100% agree.
How can you join the conversation if you don't know what the context is? People comment a question that has been answered later on in the video.
In the video.
How does that make sense?
Because people don't read anymore. They also don't even watch at all.
They can only watch 14 seconds.
We should even add a 30-second buffer to think about it before they could even open the comments—before you leave a comment—so that they can make their own ideas that are unbiased. That's nice.
Because as soon as you see something, boom, bias. Now it's like, "Am I just the sheep?" No, you got to be the wolf. You got to be the wolf.
Wait, what?
You got to be the wolf.
Wait, what? What are you talking about?
Sheep.
Are you the sheep or the wolf?
Yeah.
The sheep are following.
Oh, the sheep are the following. And the wolf is—
The person with their own idea, because you could say "shepherd." But the shepherd has like a conformist idea.
This is becoming very biblical.
Yes.
Okay. Another thing: you can't send a video to the group chat unless you've watched the whole video.
Yeah, absolutely. Because a lot of people don't do that. They don't. They just—I'm like, okay, it's good for engagement, I guess, but I value proper conversation more than engagement.
So you don't want anyone to comment on this video unless they've watched the entire thing.
Let's put a code word in [laughter] so that we know people watch the whole thing.
The word should be karma.
Okay. So if you've watched the whole video—because this is the end of the video—comment the word "karma."
Yes.
And she'll respond to you. She's going to respond to all comments that say the word "karma." [laughter]