Also, a question: Are Seasons playlists usually public or private? because I've made this one public, but I've noticed a couple videos that are not public, and I'm worried I'm making a hosting faux pas.
I'm looking forward to the overlap posts, there are still a few conspicuously absent Seasonistas...
Personally, I think it's a distinction without a difference. We post the links to the playlist here, a publicly viewable site. I would guess that there are quite a few people reading these Seasons forum threads and viewing our videos from here that we are completely unaware of ... who do not post or comment much or ever. I would even bet that the number of those silent Seasons "attendees" might even be several times higher than the number who actively participate. If one is concerned about keeping these things private to "us", I think it's a false comfort to think that that's happening anyway.
Also, I'd guess that the likelihood that anyone ever stumbles across a publicly viewable Seasons playlist on YouTube purely by accident is infinitesimally small. It's never happened to me, and I'm an active player here, and always tag my YouTube videos with "Seasons of the Ukulele" and the Season number. I've even found it frequently almost impossible to find them when I'm actively
searching for them on YouTube!
So 1) I think plenty of people we don't know about are watching from
here - from the forum - already, and 2) nobody's finding us by accident via YouTube.
AND, I think it's a service to make the playlists public, so we
can search for them on YouTube. I find it frustrating when I'm looking up an old Season from a year or two ago, to try to find the forum thread. I've rarely been able to successfully search for one, and it takes quite a lot of effort to page back through all the thread history to find a particular one. It works, but it's tedious.
To summarize, it's way too hard to find this stuff even when you're looking for it, so I don't think making the playlists public costs anybody anything ... and it may help "us" a little.
[Also, if someone's
really concerned about people they don't know about finding their unlisted videos, they 1) could ask the host not to add theirs to the playlist, and 2) might reconsider posting them here in the forum at all. For those people, I think the forum is by far the bigger concern than the playlist.
I figure it's on the poster to ask if they're that concerned. I always make my playlists public, and figure any video posted in the thread (which is also public) can safely be added to a public playlist.]
