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[Meta] I suggest adding a rule to not post videos here. (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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In my humble opinion, the Technology community should only contain text news/articles or even news pictures.

I simply think that tech videos does not belong to this community, as there is already a videos community which would be more suitable for this.

What does the mods think about this?

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My main beef is that I don’t enjoy watching video form content, but having a summary would be more than sufficient to quickly determine whether or not I would be interested in watching anyway.

Strongly agree.

[–] woelkchen -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a summary would be more than sufficient to quickly determine whether or not I would be interested in watching anyway.

That's what the headlien is for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s a good idea in principle but headlines are often not in the viewer’s interest. The purpose is to get you to watch the video, not to actually tell you what’s in the video.

Unfortunately there’s lots of good videos with Clickbait titles.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There's a lot terrible articles with clickbate titles too. A lot of the articles I'm interested reading are either clickbate/ragebait or way out of context or just completely false.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Absolutely. That's why it's still good practice to include some kind of comment about the article in the post if the content isn't clearly identified by the headline.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Exactly. I don't post often, but when I do, I include a short summary, as well as a couple questions to spark discussion.

[–] woelkchen 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There’s a lot terrible articles with clickbate titles too.

The headline here does not need to be the same as the headline in the article. Other communities have rules not to editorialize headlines, this community does not. "Review of tech gadget X by outlet Y" is a perfectly fine headline here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Much faster to skim the contents of an article than a video.

[–] woelkchen 1 points 1 month ago

The purpose is to get you to watch the video, not to actually tell you what’s in the video.

There is no rule here to copy the video title into the submission headline. The submission here could be titled "PlayStation 5 Pro benchmarks by Digital Foundry", no matter how DF names the video on YouTube. Demanding summaries of videos that can easily be longer than 45 minutes is just not reasonable at all.