The BBC was one of the most egregious pioneers in soliciting meaningless viewer ...

lvs on Oct 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit?

The BBC was one of the most egregious pioneers in soliciting meaningless viewer responses in the pre-social media era. They would go so far as to kill 30+ seconds of airtime to soliciting/demanding "participatory" viewer responses that were invariably inane. On the plus side, at least it led to some good satire [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnd5ilKx2Y

dredmorbius on Oct 10, 2016 [–]

Auntie Beeb's insistence on such complete drivel has killed all the joy and interest. I find it utterly unlistenable much the time.