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I second this. CrispyQ Mar 2025 #1
And maybe a moratorium on "Must Watch!" posts Orrex Mar 2025 #2
I agree. So many of those videos come with tendentious all-caps headlines Ocelot II Mar 2025 #3
True 'nuf. Disaffected Mar 2025 #9
And no "Bombshells". Magoo48 Mar 2025 #30
It might be nice, but meanwhile, "trash thread" is your friend. RandomNumbers Mar 2025 #4
I think you're on to something. defacto7 Mar 2025 #11
I would like it... 2naSalit Mar 2025 #5
I don't understand why if we can get closed caption on all vids why we can't get a transcription of all vids. CrispyQ Mar 2025 #10
I have looked for summaries and transcripts... 2naSalit Mar 2025 #14
And/or provide the time spot in the video that relates to the post Bev54 Mar 2025 #23
Yes, both of those things would be VERY helpful. ShazzieB Mar 2025 #24
People should always tell us what the video is about JI7 Mar 2025 #6
Quite honestly, I will not take the additional time to sit here and watch videos. As Ocelot stated, Firestorm49 Mar 2025 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author BootinUp Mar 2025 #8
From experience claudette Mar 2025 #12
That would be a good one. Xavier Breath Mar 2025 #13
Yes. Until "DESTROYED" really means destroyed. Ridiculous hyperbolic vid titles. NewHendoLib Mar 2025 #15
Rules aren't there to ensure quality, they're to stop disruption muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #16
That little red box tells you there is a video. Just don't click on it. Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #17
Does the red box show up when a post is listed on the main page? ShazzieB Mar 2025 #28
I totally agree with this! QED Mar 2025 #18
Definitely extend it to all videos Susan Calvin Mar 2025 #19
I don't watch any news, opinion, or politics on video. hunter Mar 2025 #20
Couldn't agree more SCantiGOP Mar 2025 #21
This is a discussion board. William769 Mar 2025 #22
Yep. You'd think that people were being forced to watch, or read, stuff they don't like. Ping Tung Mar 2025 #32
Yeah, these Carnival Barker "come on" videos... Escape Mar 2025 #25
I agree they are annoying, but why not just ignore them? tritsofme Mar 2025 #26
"This 1 simple DU rule DESTROYS click bait videos!" LudwigPastorius Mar 2025 #27
decades of clickbait Tetrachloride Mar 2025 #29
I agree surfered Mar 2025 #31
I agree with including a summary for *any* video posted. ShazzieB Mar 2025 #33
Also the length n/t aggiesal Mar 2025 #34

Ocelot II

(126,272 posts)
3. I agree. So many of those videos come with tendentious all-caps headlines
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:11 AM
Mar 2025

proclaiming that some GOP knucklehead was DESTROYED or HUMILIATED or whatever, when they really weren't; most of the time the money shot is a 1-minute clip of Trump or one of his goons saying something stupid or insane, and it's buried somewhere inside a 20-minute dissertation from some obscure click-seeking podcaster telling us how stupid or insane it was. These videos are commercial enterprises; they make money off our attention, so they have the same general appearance and tone as a supermarket checkout-line tabloid and are about as worthless. They are a waste of our time and clutter up our feeds. If there's nothing of value in them - and there almost never is - they shouldn't be posted at all. Seems to me that posting one of these is just a lazy way of "commenting" without having to do any thinking.

Disaffected

(5,784 posts)
9. True 'nuf.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:31 AM
Mar 2025

Even the Medias Touch has gone done that path, although not nearly as bad as others.

RandomNumbers

(18,784 posts)
4. It might be nice, but meanwhile, "trash thread" is your friend.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:13 AM
Mar 2025

It would be super cool if a poster were notified when a certain threshold of trashed posts was reached.

While I agree with your general sentiment about those posts, I think such a rule would be difficult to enforce and result in uneven and potentially unfair enforcement. So I think those posts should be discouraged but not sure of the best way to achieve that.

defacto7

(14,131 posts)
11. I think you're on to something.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:38 AM
Mar 2025

It would send a message to the poster about what DUers think is click bait without a jury, hides and the like . There are a lot of important videos uploaded here. That's great. But the jazzed up, click bait, moderator podcast types can easily be hyped for ad purposes and not focused on balanced reporting let alone be a drawn out waste of time. It doesn't exactly help the credibility of the site.

2naSalit

(97,399 posts)
5. I would like it...
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:15 AM
Mar 2025

If the length of the video was visible, a brief summary is helpful too. There's so much going on that I don't have time to watch them all yet I would like to know what they are about so I can choose to watch or not.

CrispyQ

(40,029 posts)
10. I don't understand why if we can get closed caption on all vids why we can't get a transcription of all vids.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:31 AM
Mar 2025

It seems like a perfect task for AI.

2naSalit

(97,399 posts)
14. I have looked for summaries and transcripts...
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:45 AM
Mar 2025

Of videos I post and can't always find them.

Bev54

(12,689 posts)
23. And/or provide the time spot in the video that relates to the post
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:37 PM
Mar 2025

I won’t watch a full video just to get to the 2 min of “must watch”

JI7

(92,363 posts)
6. People should always tell us what the video is about
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:19 AM
Mar 2025

and the point being made.

If people post things I assume they want people to be informed of what was posted so why not include this info ?

Firestorm49

(4,420 posts)
7. Quite honestly, I will not take the additional time to sit here and watch videos. As Ocelot stated,
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:22 AM
Mar 2025

many times the title is just a lure to an obscure statement somewhere in the video validating the post title. I agree with Ocelot that at the very least, some type of summary should be required. Between reading the posts on DU and Bluesky, much of my day can easily be consumed. Add a dozen videos to the list? Nope.

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Xavier Breath

(5,895 posts)
13. That would be a good one.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:40 AM
Mar 2025

I would also humbly suggest that simply posting a thread title and an X link is not sufficient. Give us a pic of the X so that we don't have to access that asshole's site.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,209 posts)
16. Rules aren't there to ensure quality, they're to stop disruption
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:47 AM
Mar 2025

It's overkill to be so specific (for GD, anyway; LBN does have strict rules, and that's what makes it the place for information, rather than discussion). Personally, I just ignore thread titles that don't tell me what they're about, unless they happen to be from a DUer I know will post something worthwhile.

Ms. Toad

(37,374 posts)
17. That little red box tells you there is a video. Just don't click on it.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 12:50 PM
Mar 2025

More broadly, though. It would be nice if people posting visual content developed the habit of providing a text description of the image, cartoon, video, do that people who are visually impaired can join in whatever fun you are offering. Text readers (and other visual aid tools) don't handle images or cartoons well enough to make them accessible.

I'm bad at doing it on DU, extremely good at it when there is an alternative text box provided. So I would respond well to an invitation in the post page.

ShazzieB

(21,206 posts)
28. Does the red box show up when a post is listed on the main page?
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:47 PM
Mar 2025

If not, it would be nice if it did.

QED

(3,164 posts)
18. I totally agree with this!
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:15 PM
Mar 2025

At times, when I request a summary I get snotty responses - just watch the video. Usually though, the request is just ignored.

Susan Calvin

(2,323 posts)
19. Definitely extend it to all videos
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:26 PM
Mar 2025

I like to know what I am being asked to watch. I like it so much that I virtually never click on any posts that are marked as video.

hunter

(39,717 posts)
20. I don't watch any news, opinion, or politics on video.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:33 PM
Mar 2025

Not here on DU, not on television, not on the internet.

I quit all broadcast and cable television news and opinion more than twenty years ago. Here on DU I put compulsive posters of "click bait" news and opinion videos on full ignore.

Before the site formerly known as twitter came along I always figured television was the worst medium for news and opinion. It seems to me that television propaganda bypasses the critical thinking skills of many people. Television news and opinion moves by faster than most people can think. Too often it's a fire hose of bullshit.

People can read news and opinion at the same speed they think. If they feel they missed something they can go back and read it again. That's not the way people watch television.

SCantiGOP

(14,556 posts)
21. Couldn't agree more
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:35 PM
Mar 2025

Require an accurate, one sentence description of any video. And no hyperbole.

William769

(59,147 posts)
22. This is a discussion board.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:36 PM
Mar 2025

You have the power to click or not click. I myself can just look at the video & determine if it click bait or not.

With everything going on in the world, I highly doubt that the DU Admins will make this a high priority or any priority for that matter.

Ping Tung

(3,152 posts)
32. Yep. You'd think that people were being forced to watch, or read, stuff they don't like.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:52 PM
Mar 2025

That's why God invented on/off switches that anyone can use.

Escape

(251 posts)
25. Yeah, these Carnival Barker "come on" videos...
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:42 PM
Mar 2025

tarnish the respectability of Democratic Underground.

I don't watch any of them now, even though they are apparently...shocking, devastating, overwhelming, mind numbing and earth shattering.


Tetrachloride

(8,854 posts)
29. decades of clickbait
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:49 PM
Mar 2025

if i want good coffee, I will go to Starbucks.

voting makes a difference

this video is a must see and i am not going to say why

(. ) was destroyed

some of these are not true

ShazzieB

(21,206 posts)
33. I agree with including a summary for *any* video posted.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 01:53 PM
Mar 2025

Requiring it for all would be much easier than trying to define a slippery concept like "clickbait," and one sentence would be sufficient, in most cases.

If something is worth posting, surely it's worth labeling what it is.

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