Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
by vkou on Monday July 20, 2020 @01:43PM
(#23900142)
I completely ignore YouTube links, if they are secondary, or tertiary sources. (They can be pretty good as primary sources. If someone claims that an event happened, and then links to a YouTube video of that event, that citation is often quite conclusive as to the validity of that claim.)
They are unsearchable, unskimmable, and require way too long to get through. And if someone links them with a particular timestamp in mind, because some fifty-second segment is the salient part of the link, then, at best, they are an appeal to authority.
They are unsearchable, unskimmable, and require way too long to get through. And if someone links them with a particular timestamp in mind, because some fifty-second segment is the salient part of the link, then, at best, they are an appeal to authority.