[ggambetta]

This would be noteworthy if the counter was included in the video (like the similar video that shows its own URL [0]). But as it is, it's just the title that changes to match the number of views, so... not much to see here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20452013

[danpalmer]

You seem to have missed that this is a science-communication video aimed to help lay-people understand APIs, standards, online abuse, privacy issues, and how automation is playing into the issues we have in society stemming from social media.

[ggambetta]

I don't think that changes the fact that the gimmick, that gives the name to the video and the submission in HN, is pretty unimpressive.

[hombre_fatal]

Who said it has to be impressive? It's simply something fun that relates to the deeper dive he takes in the video.

[danpalmer]

I'd go further and say that it needs to be simple above all else, to help communicate the message. Confusing that with the ideas of video editing/compositing and uploading would make the message less effective.

[dom96]

> This would be noteworthy if the counter was included in the video

Pretty sure that would be impossible, unless I am missing something.

[a3r0]

I was thinking it would be a video counting from 0 to 1 million or whatever. Combined with a service to redirect you to the video at the correct timestamp using YouTube's "t=1m23s" parameter.

But 10 hours of video with 1s timestamp parameter resolution would only get you up to 36000

[aasasd]

Similar things were done by generating a live video. Heck, you could just show the page for the video in the live video.

The problem would be in keeping the transmission live for a long time.

[baddox]

It would start out working fine at zero.

[ggambetta]

I agree, but when someone does something we consider to be impossible, that's interesting and noteworthy. This, not so much.

[dheera]

Yeah unfortunately Youtube doesn't let you edit videos, which sucks for creators who want to fix minor mistakes after a video has gone viral.

You can, however, add and edit "cards" on top of the video.

On another note, it would be noteworthy if the title on Hacker News also included the counter.

[iso947]

It’s sucks for them (and their viewers). It doesn’t suck for viewers who want to see the thing that went viral - not some new video with product placement etc.

[ganstyles]

Like Reddit comments with a thousand edits after they become popular.

[NoodleIncident]

If such a feature existed, it would be used for abuse 99% of the time

[dheera]

Vimeo does have such a feature. The ability to do such could be based on karma on YouTube.

[dheera]

Uh, why the downvote? Can HN institute a policy that a reply is required if you downvote?

[hombre_fatal]

You're just farming more downvotes by clearly being affected by them and then complaining about them.

If this is how you respond to pointless vote counts, I would avoid revisiting comments after you leave them for the sake of your mental health.

[gpm]

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

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

[ianferrel]

I didn't leave a downvote, but that sounds like a horrible policy. You'd get a ton of short comments on the least-valuable (as judged by voters) comments, bloating the comment tree and making it way less readable.

[jshevek]

It is fortunate, not unfortunate, that YouTube prevents editing of the video itself after a video has been uploaded, viewed, interacted with, shared, commented on, and started to accumulate karma of various sorts.

[xwdv]

That would be spooky, we would hire an engineer like that on the spot due to the cross-domain knowledge required.

[grecy]

I imagine it's possible to update the counter as closed captions for the video....