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by Legion 5582 days ago
Forcing users to do something isn't always necessarily a bad thing. It depends on the use case.

In general, no, I wouldn't want to tweet about a video before seeing it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a use inside of something larger.

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I can't ever see a use case where it is OK to force a user to syndicate your content before viewing it. It trying to force virality -- and after a while users will stop watching videos, negating the effect if not harming the content in the long run. Think "Expert's Exchange"
Every time anything tries to make me like it, it has turned out to be a hoax (discovered by googling the thing not by liking it I might add).