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Re:Vi Hart: cramming G+ into YouTube has made comments even ... by leoedin on Thursday November 14, 2013 @11:03AM (#6733037)
One of YouTube's huge benefits is that it's an archive. Videos published in 2008 which get 10 views a year are still available. If a video had to be popular enough for someone to still be seeding it 5 years later, a huge amount of valuable content would just drop off the web.
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Re:Vi Hart: cramming G+ into YouTube has made comments even ... by Revisor on Thursday November 14, 2013 @11:25AM (#6733183)
The author ('s server) could serve as a perpetual seed. Or someone would step up for seeding, Internet archive or similar.
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Re:Vi Hart: cramming G+ into YouTube has made comments even ... by blake8086 on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:56PM (#6734545)
Is it valuable if it gets 10 views a year?
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Re:Vi Hart: cramming G+ into YouTube has made comments even ... by evandena on Thursday November 14, 2013 @03:27PM (#6735298)
To those 10 viewers, yes.

The other day I watched a infrequently viewed video on how to install carpet on stairs, uploaded by a professional carpet installer (and not some profit generating wikihow crap). I consider this one of YouTube's most powerful features... it's a trove of self help videos for almost everything.

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