Thissa wrote:We want people to watch his videos here rather than on YouTube because then users are exposed to both the ads within the videos as well as the ads on the site, it's an additional source of monetization. That being said each video on the site does have a link to watch it back on the video host that it came from if you prefer, and from there the channel is only an additional click away.
Yes I know website hosting costs money, potentially alot of money, but is that really necessary for that one ad right up there?
I'm 90% the Talkhaus frontpage actually gathers more daily visits than the raocow.com frontpage does, since - let's be honest here - most people don't even go on there to get their videos.
People subscribe to raocow on Youtube and will want to watch and comment his videos there. Simple as that. If you take away their ability to comment, do you really think they're going to move over to the Talkhaus to post on the LP threads here?
It's Youtube, man, they won't.
Even worse, some will unsubscribe because such behaviour of locking comments triggers the following thought in most people's head:
"Wow, what the heck's up with raocow? Does he not care about his viewers anymore? And I was just about to post my very witty remark/quote/other shit on this video, too!"
It's gonna scare people off, and has not yet worked for any famous LPer out there that I know.