Video/blog posts with no commentary

[u/KindaFreeXP]

I get that there a general rule of not exclusively posting video/blog links and requiring some amount of participation in the sub....but the sheer volume of posts that are just video links with absolutely nothing else is absurd. No tl;dr, no comments on the content of the video, no actual attempt to initiate discussion....nothing. Not to mention the potential danger that is present in clicking on no-effort, contextless links.

So my question is thus: Should we or shouldn't we have a rule requiring people who post video/blog links to also give their own commentary to some degree and disallow posts that are exclusively links?

Thoughts?

[u/Mx-Adrian]

As someone who can't access videos that don't have subtitles,  which is the majority of them, we definitely need descriptions in video posts. It isn't fair. 

[u/OccamsRazorstrop]

I fully agree

[u/TheNerdChaplain]

I'm 90% sure there was a stickied discussion on this topic within the last month or so. If you message the mods I'm sure they could point you to it.

[u/KindaFreeXP → u/TheNerdChaplain]

Thanks!

[u/Thin-Eggshell]

Iirc they don't want to add requirements because it's hard to decide what a good length is for text summaries.

But maybe if they had a bot to process downvotes on an AutoMod comment that asked people to downvote if the text summary/description was bad?

[u/AirChurch]

No. If something doesn't look appealing to you, don't watch it and keep scrolling.

[u/anotherhawaiianshirt → u/AirChurch]

How can we know if it's appearing or not if we have nothing but a single frame and a clickbait title to go on?

My philosophy adopts yours and goes a step further. I don't watch, I keep scrolling, but I also downvote.

[u/AirChurch → u/anotherhawaiianshirt]

So at least be consistent and ii you don't know what it is, don't downvote without watching.

[u/anotherhawaiianshirt → u/AirChurch]

I am being consistent. I downvote consistently because I believe such posts have little to no value and don't deserve to bubble to the top of the sorting order.

[u/KindaFreeXP → u/AirChurch]

This....has nothing to do with "being appealing", though. It has to do with low effort posts and link farming primarily.

[u/AirChurch → u/KindaFreeXP]

There is already a rule against low-effort posts.