As a fellow Iranian.com user, I like you all (well, most of you) and am constantly informed and entertained by your diverse contributions to the site’s content and dialogue through the comments section. Much of what I learn on the site happens in the comments section where different and opposing or supporting thoughts are expressed by so many intelligent and articulate users.
I am a little annoyed this morning, so I’m writing to share something with you. I would like to ask some of you to take it easy with video uploads in the comments section. When scrolling through to read comments, it becomes really annoying to have to jump over “video comments” which take up five times the space of ordinary comments (that’s if there’s just one video posted!), skipping the video clips which sit in the middle of a discussion thread. Couldn’t you just kindly leave the YouTube link and allow interested users to click on it, as opposed to uploading it?
I also believe that with a few exceptions, nothing takes the place of thoughtful words typed in the comments field. It is a lot more helpful to me as a reader to see what someone is really thinking and saying, even in a short sentence, than to have to click on his/her uploaded video in order to deduce and surmise his/her meaning and contribution to the discussion. Imagine my disappointment when I have clicked on the video link and have watched it for 2-5 minutes, sadly not really catching the meaning of the contributor.
Please help keep the site clean and dialogues focused and meaningful. Please blog about video clips as much as you want, but leave them out of the comments section to the extent possible. Thank you.
