TraderJoe comments on Preventing discussion from being watered down by an "endless September" user influx. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 03 September 2012 10:47:38PM 2 points [-]

What's the case for a video? Seems a little cheesy, IMO.

People like videos and it makes the community more human to newcomers.

Comment author: Kindly 04 September 2012 04:06:15AM 13 points [-]

People like videos? I hate videos to the point that I will go out of my way to avoid links with videos in them, and I've seen this sentiment expressed by other people here.

Comment author: TraderJoe 05 November 2012 12:43:43PM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: gwern 05 November 2012 04:01:34PM 0 points [-]

Transcripts are fairly expensive; patio11 pays for transcripts to be made for his podcasts (a big factor in why those submissions do well on Hacker News), but IIRC the quoted figure is north of $100. So you would pay... but would you pay enough?

Comment author: TraderJoe 06 November 2012 08:45:36AM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: gwern 06 November 2012 03:27:36PM 0 points [-]

College students would be flaky and unreliable, and you'd want at least 2 for error-checking. You get what you pay for.