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If you wanted to participate in this forum, you could have at least outlined your thoughts here, in text.
Posts like this one categorically earn a downvote from me, for treating us like a click farm.
Not trying to treat anyone like a click farm, I get no benefit from any clicks. I thought the video was a good introduction to GOG for anyone that hadn't heard of it, but as another comment pointed out, it's pretty likely that everyone in this community has heard of GOG at this point, so it's probably more preaching to the choir.
It's not about whether you benefit from clicks; it's about how the post affects the community.
Unlike a text post, a bare link to a video cannot be quickly assessed by readers to determine what lies inside. Instead, it demands that they follow the link to some other site and sit through at least part of the video, before they know whether it contains anything of value to them. Multiply that by the roughly 32 thousand members of this community, plus uncounted others who browse without subscribing, and it equals an enormous waste of other people's time.
I think it's fine to post a video that's likely to interest or inform people, especially if it shows something better than can be expressed in text. But in future, I hope you'll include at least a summary of the content, and ideally something worthy of conversation: your insights, criticisms, questions, or other thoughts on the subject. That way, the post would have a good chance of reaching the people to whom it matters while respecting everyone else's time, and be a decent contribution to the community rather than low-effort noise.
For what it's worth, I agree that GOG is good. :)
We're all different and enjoy different things. How about congratulating someone for making some content on a topic they care about.