The original title was “we’ve destroyed the property”. What we meant by that was the land surrounding the house. It seems a lot of people misunderstood that to mean the home itself, which I can’t imagine why we would destroy the house. But to make it less confusing I’ve changed the title to “we’ve destroyed the land surrounding the stone house”

Agree, I expected to see the house torn to shreds. Thank goodness, it’s not. I bet a ton of people thought that… was worded like that deliberately I would think.

By property we meant the land. If we had meant the house we would have said the house. Just like our title “we knocked down part of our house”, where we did. We wouldn’t ever destroy the house. We thought it would be clear we were speaking about the land. Since there still remains confusion we have changed the title to clarify that we were speaking about the land. I’m not sure how my replies have insulated anyone, but that was never my intent.

That’s an interesting question. They can probably not generate enough electricity with solar, especially not in the darker months of the tear. Not sure if you would be allowed to install a small wind turbine. I was thinking, what about a ground source heat pump? But I don’t know enough about these things to judge that.

If you watch the video you’ll see that the entire terrace surrounding the house was destroyed. The original stone path destroyed, a portion of a stone wall destroyed, the wood fence destroyed. The property looks completely destroyed. Go ahead and suggest a more accurate title. But personally it feels pretty accurate. If it were your home, I’d imagine you’d feel similarly.

Sparking curiosity is part of any content creators job. If I were to title the video “we dug in the dirt” or “the construction site looks like a construction site”, then very few people would be interested in watching. Our job is to find the most engaging title, whilst also being very truthful in the messaging. We have always been extremely truthful in our messaging. The problem is that people don’t know what click bait actually is. Using an “exciting” title does not mean it’s click bait. Click bait is when you lie, and falsely state something that does not happen in the video. People cried “click bait” when we titled a video “knocking down part of our house”, when it reality that is exactly what we did. People cried “click bait” when we titled a video “rock slide” when that is exactly what we experienced. People proclaimed “clickbait” when we titled a video “uncovering a hidden staircase” when that is literally exactly what we did. I can give a dozen more examples. Just because the title is not boring or matter of fact, does not make it clickbait. As a viewer of KZbin myself, I will never post a false title, as I know how that feels when you are baited into watching something under false pretenses only to discover the creator lied to you. But that doesn’t mean we have to use bland titles.

@@RaisingVoyagers Shame you have deleted Tino’s comment here. He was polite and factual. I would be interested in your reply re the use of the English language. “We’ve destroyed the property” really does mean to any native English speaker that you have destroyed the house. But you did not…

@@AmayusDexter Or it implies it’s the whole of the land.