Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Our comment section is about to change…”.
I have said in the past many times that when it comes to content, moderation under videos, I’m basically kind of like yeah, it’s kind of anything goes outside of you know really really toxic obvious spam, abusive Behavior or anything like that. Uh, you know go ahead and say whatever you want, but as I was reading through the comments on one of our recent videos, what I realized is that that policy has led to a very, very low conversation quality under the videos. If you kind of understand what I mean, yep um, and so one of the things that I’ve decided to start doing is just using the hide from Channel button a lot more liberally. So here’s an example of you know a critical take. That would absolutely never get you hidden from the channel, so this was on the Corsair Xenia on Flex video.
I consider myself a bit of a tech Enthusiast, but I just don’t understand the point of these Flex monitors like not in any way at all. I think it’s such a total waste of resources and I wouldn’t even consider buying one at any point in time for any price point. If I was given one I’d, sell it or give it away. Honestly, I don’t agree with that. Take that is I. I can absolutely see the value of it at the current price pretty challenging, but to say that you’d be given something for free and not at least give it a shot. I think is pretty close-minded like. I don’t agree with this comment, but it’s it’s absolutely valid.
An example of something that is not valid and just simply doesn’t need to be under the video. Is this one Linus casually suggesting 1440p 240 hertz and OLED at Peak 700? Nits is Noob level. Tier is funny. It tells us where his head is that never happened.
Um, I just I think, I’m just kind of done with taking things I never said and being like wow. I can’t believe you said that what I said was that none of its specs individually are Best in Class top of the line, and none of those specs are 1440p is not the highest resolution. 240 hertz is not the highest refresh rate and 700 nits Peak brightness is not as bright as a monitor will get, but you said that you like pancakes. That means you hate waffles right.
So what I went on to say is that, but what it is is a really great package, and so this is one of those things that I I think over the long term. I think it’s going to take a long time, but I think over the long term could have a really positive impact on the kind of conversations that people can have in the comments, because that’s another thing, I’ve noticed is that there’s a lot less of it now I don’t see long conversation threads, the way that I used to like technical, long conversation threads, and it’s something that I just didn’t notice until I thought about it like an another one that came up a lot on that video in particular, was um. People really upset that I called 1440p Low res. I didn’t.
I said that on a 43-inch display, 1440p is low. Res yeah relativity, it is resolution, is not pixel count, and so basically, if it’s when it comes to well, it’s not pixels per age. Sorry, yeah yeah pixels print yeah yeah, so the so so I just I’m finding that I get a headache.
A lot reading YouTube comments, but I can’t stop reading them, so I’m gon na have to start just being like no I’m not gon na. I can’t engage with that, so you’re still reading it, though no because when you hide it from the channel, then I just will never have to read anything from that person again. Oh, it doesn’t just hide that comment nope.
It means bye-bye so you’re Shadow Banning the user yeah got it yep. I think I’m I think I’m just done uh. I think I just I think, I’m just not interested in Reading uh.
You took so much Flack because you’re still chilling in video and don’t just own your mistake if you send spend 30 minutes chilling, Nvidia and five seconds in the end and say something remote bad is still chilling Nvidia. But now that you’re, a serious Tech Channel at this point just label the channel paid by Nvidia. This was on our Radeon 7900 review, where, if anything we apologized for taking such a pro-amd stance like I just if you don’t watch the video and you just are gon na be like that.
I just I think I’m done with you forever. I think it’s just gon na have to be like that. I don’t know, maybe I’ll maybe I’ll change my mind, but I I just I I just I just can’t I just can’t anymore. I’M tired, you know yeah uh James asks.
Will this be an official lmg thing? The answer is no. This is just gon na be a like if I’m scrolling and I just see a just catastrophically brain dead – take I’m just gon na be like sorry. I just I actually can’t read what you write anymore. So you might get the might get the Linus band hammer, it makes my brain hurt yeah, it’s the the stuff that is incredibly annoying, and we, I think we’ve talked about this in the past – is the stuff that’s just like they clearly either like didn’t, actually watch It and just yeah reacted before watching the content or they’re taking stuff uh. Like you saying, oh on this massive screen, this is a low resolution as just completely out of context chopping off the on this massive screen part and then going after it like it’s. Not it’s not good, it’s not good conversation yeah! No, it is.
It is a little tough though, and I do like that – you’re not making it like an lmg rule yep, because I think that would be a hard thing to manage across a team of people and just oh for sure. If that ability, I think, is more fine. Yeah, well, everyone technically has the ability. I actually can’t prevent anyone with access to the channel from like Shadow Banning someone.
I I don’t think the management tools are that granular, at least not since I’ve looked at them uh. But it’s just you know it’s the kind of thing that I just. Ah I I don’t I don’t know. Maybe I mean. Maybe the right answer is something else entirely like well. Okay, one of the things that I’ve pitched to YouTube multiple times – and I would love to be a feature – is the ability to respond to a comment that I’m reading with a short like one of the one of the comments that came up a lot on the Xenia on Flex, video is people misunderstanding what I meant by a low resolution for the size, uh and, and some people seemed genuinely like really upset, really upset that I was attacking their 1080p Monitor and like like treating them like they were poor and worthless, or something Because they had a 1080p Monitor and this one was 1440p and I’m sitting here going.
No, I said it was low, I put the but for the size, your monitor your 1080p, like 22 inch, monitor 24 inch, monitor or even 27 inch monitor is actually higher. Pixel density than this thing, I have a 27 inch. 1440P monitor. It’S great.
I don’t want anything bigger. I think for the screen size it’s good, but the problem is that at 43 inches yeah. Then I would want something more.
It’S a different story, and so, if you’re not going to listen to what I’m saying at all, I I I I I I I I don’t know but but that could easily be a misunderstanding. So the way that I would love to respond to something like that is with a short, hey, I’m seeing this comment a lot I’d like to clarify what I meant, because I think there’s a misinterpretation where people are thinking. Resolution equals pixel count, but resolution is actually the resolving the res, the the Resolute how how the I can resolve the image like it’s that that’s where resolution comes from we’re talking about the the clarity and Clarity is affected by a lot more than pixel count.
1080P. Could be incredibly clear on a display this size that would be like mind-blowing like you could get this close to be like wow. This is sharp.
We keep on you, keep saying pixel count um, but pixels per inch. No, no pixel count is 1920 by 1080. yeah, but you that’s something count.
Resolution is not pixel count. It’S not pixel count. It’S okay, so pixels per inch is not a count of pixels. That’S that’s a count of pixels per distance. No, I know oh okay, but you’re saying resolution is not pixel account and I understand what you’re saying with the clarity thing. Okay, but if you look on a spec sheet – and it says, resolution colon this – yes and that’s something where that’s uh, the industry has failed.
Consumers yeah I’m just the reason why I keep saying it is because people are gon na there’s people saying yeah people are going to misinterpret. That no resolution is not pixel count. Resolution is a function of pixel count, display size and viewing distance. Just the resolution. That is displayed on your spec sheet is pixel count yeah. The reason that we use the word resolution to describe pixel count is because it was a much easier way to Market it.
That’S why this is one of those areas where product marketing and has utterly failed consumers, because by focusing on Pixel count and that’s the reason that I’m framing it that way, then, by focusing on the number of pixels, you are actually and doing a complete disservice to The user, because you are not telling them the useful information uh, that’s one of the reasons that apple in my opinion in wisely stayed out of the resolution race when it came to phone displays, because pixel count is what matters excuse me pixel gun, because it’s a Because what matters is a combination of the pixel count, the size of the display and the intended viewing distance. As long as those three things are balanced, you don’t actually need any more and so in the same way that a 1080p projector at you know, 120 inches is going to look like garbage um, a 4K projector. Actually, okay, so 4K is a really interesting one, because then you start getting into how much of your field of view should actually be occupied by content, and so the bigger you make the image the farther away. You have to sit right and so going Beyond 4K.
Actually may not matter in any context, but but at lower resolution. The further you get away from the screen exactly so because of that distance function, going higher than 4K can almost never matter like you can sit close enough to an 8K TV that you can make out the difference between 8K and 4K um, but you’re sitting. It’S taking up so much of your field of view that the content is not really designed to be enjoyed. That way.
Like you, you’re, like you’re gon na miss details because you’re, I think it’s only like four degrees or eight degrees. I forget, I forget how much of your field of vision is actually sharp, and your peripheral vision is not so by sitting too close to the content, you actually reduce the amount of the content that you can see clearly, no matter what the resolution of the display Is and by resolution I do mean the relative pixel count compared to the the the display size, someone in full plane chat said what you’re describing is Optical resolution versus image resolution. Yes, but they’re closely related and there’s still confusion there as well. If you Google image resolution the first result from um, I don’t know what university this is, but it’s um.edu website is image.
Resolution is typically described in PPI in printing. It is okay, so isn’t that interesting? That would make a lot more sense. Isn’T that interesting? So we actually do use pixels per inch, so we did it. We did it right first right, but we didn’t because digital cameras, which were really coming up right around the time of photo printers, also oh we’re measured in pixels instead of pixels per inch Rip, because it’s the only way to really to conveniently say uh.
You know how how fine the image is right, because the reason we use pixels per inch for print is because we know what the scale is going to be, but digitally we don’t that 2 megapixel picture could be this big. It could be this big, so the actual resolution of it could be completely different, but the pixel count will that we can convey. I know it’s really complicated and I don’t I don’t know how to fix it, but you necessarily can .