WRA2 wrote:
I think that youtube and other personal social media sites have damaged the close knit communities that forums are and created and environment of "every one for themselves" attitude. Everyone establishes their own little kingdom and then there is no incentive to participate in forum communities any more. Everyone is busy trying to attract the "most subscribers" to "their channel". When people can also monetize their channel the incentive is even less to participate anywhere but on their channel.
I have seen it here before where a new user will register and post a total of one post with a link to their "channel" never to be herd from again. It happens all the time.
Hello Lisa,
I definately have to agree that YouTube and similar sites have damaged the forums at some point.
It's, like I've said, a shame and I personally really like the forums.
However, we have to consider that the majority of todays youth, including our team, is searching mainly on sites like YouTube.
We started our channel in 2011, even before we created our website.
We are not interested in generating clicks and subscriptions mainly, it's just about reaching more people and helping them to get involved.
This helps the whole community. I think the most YouTube channels aren't creating YouTube videos only for clicks.
Furthermore, the monetization isn't that effective because not many people are interested in water rocketry.
If the main reason would be to earn some money there would be a lot better subjects than water rockets.
We really enjoy the YouTube water rocket community and we support other YouTube rocketry channels as well.
For example, we worked together with USWR for our latest tutorial and we have a great partnership with another german water rocket team.
YouTube isn't a bad thing for rocketeers at all. It just shouldn't be the only plattform.
For example, we are very active on YouTube, but we also love the german and the international water rocket forums.
I'm sorry if it seemed like I wanted to dump the importance of this forum.
Best regards
Julian
As always, sorry for my english. Im 16 years old and it's quite hard to write something like this in english.