[IDEA IN PROGRESS] YouTube Live Points

YES

After thinking it through a little bit longer, I’ve come to a conclusion.

Watching a D-Cot YouTube Livestream is a free way of supporting the website, just like using the website in general. It’s another form of supporter, it just doesn’t cost real money for some folks like the supporter status does on regular D-Cot. The Supporter Status comes with it’s own unique perks.

Does the live stream activity need perks? Not necessarily. I bet all the current Supporters on this website would support it anyways even without the perks, much like our current YouTube situation. And not everyone can make it to the stream, like @nascfan pointed out. Life happens and sometimes it can get to hectic.

To each their own

I think it would encourage people to watch. People love points! I personally would watch either way but I will say that my suggestion if points are offered would be making the live streams at a set time. I know that’s hard with family obligations and not knowing how the evening will go, but I think it’s more feasible for viewers to tune in if they know the time. I was not on a computer during the last one so I did not get any notification that you were live and missed it. If I know what time it is I could plan to tune in. Unless I did something wrong and everyone else got notifications to their phone or something?

starbee wrote:

but I will say that my suggestion if points are offered would be making the live streams at a set time. I know that’s hard with family obligations and not knowing how the evening will go, but I think it’s more feasible for viewers to tune in if they know the time.

I think that if this happens that this suggestion would be a necessity. Life is hectic and not knowing when they will be at some point in an evening is not conducive to that.

bpellinen wrote:

For the last live-stream, I just had my ipad open to youtube, and I just kept refreshing every few minutes to see if it had started yet. I was just about to give up and shut my ipad off for the night, when it started. Having a set time would probably make it possible for more people to plan their evenings and be able to tune in.

I have an iPad but I didn’t think about doing that usually in the evenings I’m all over the place: cooking, cleaning, feeding and walking the dogs… I am rarely near a computer unless I plan to be.

starbee wrote:

Nascfan wrote:

I think that if this happens that this suggestion would be a necessity. Life is hectic and not knowing when they will be at some point in an evening is not conducive to that.

And it’s a waste of Steve’s time if he puts effort into a stream that no one tunes in to because we didn’t know it was happening.

Yep! Exactly right.

I agree with @Nascfan point about those of us out west and missing it (mainly because I am out west and this affects me directly ) but I also think that this would absolutely drive viewership. If we all know that on xx day @steve is doing a live stream at xx o’clock then yes I believe more people would watch, especially if they’re going to get free points!