Please don't scold someone who's already in a shitty situation, or lecture them with the obvious. That breaks the HN guidelines, notably this one: "Be kind."

It's extremely easy to do this kind of thing on the internet and not as easy to realize the effect it has on people, and also on the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What the purpose of your comment? It's not helpful.

If that weren’t the case, I agree with you, it’s a good message to spread.

Run this:

youtube-dl https://youtube.com/c/MyChannel

and have a snack while it finishes. You'll thank yourself later.

I think it's important to mention that such trust is misplaced and risky, ALWAYS make backups. Sure it's generally common sense for many, but the OPs story is a nice example.

I don't think that that's particularly true of HN readership though.

If GP's comment was on a more mainstream forum e.g. Reddit, then I would agree with you, but as it stands it feels a bit gratuitous.

In other words, the next generation of normies will probably understand this because of people before them learning the hard way.