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Bernardo de La Paz

(54,847 posts)
4. Latest or General? One has labels.
Fri Dec 8, 2023, 07:27 AM
Dec 2023

Are you proposing to block any post that has a video anywhere in it? Any OP with a video? Even OPs with a skippable video and six paragraphs of well written text?

Do you mean the "Latest" tab that goes to a page headed "Latest Discussions"? All the posts shown there are categorized. If the posts are primarily video, they will show up labelled there as to the forum which would be Liberal Youtubers or Cable News Clips or Music Appreciation or Netflix Streaming Videos DVDs. Easy to avoid. It's a problem?

Do you mean General Discussion? It's its own forum so video-centric posts are not labelled, but should be.

I'm not seeing and have not seen a 2/3 ratio in either place. There is no "Video section" { on edit: there is the tab}, but there are the four (or more?) forums I mentioned.

Other posts / OPs should have some discussion first, and maybe a video to explain or provide context to a point. So that the video can be skipped.

All video posts should have an explanation of why someone should spend time looking at the video. I and many other people do not have time to look at a dozen videos for a minute each to decide if they want to spend ten minutes each watching the rest of them. I can pop into and skim a dozen OPs in a minute. Not so with videos. I can read an article three times faster than I can watch the equivalent words being read in a video. Plus most videos have a lot of "Hi, thanks for watching, isn't it great that you are here, donate to my patreon, the weather is great here today, I'm so excited to bring you this news, you'll love it, blah blah blah....".

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Yeah, I've noticed. Thanks, and good morning. NT mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 #1
Yes, please, less videos. Scottie Mom Dec 2023 #2
Isn't 'Latest Discussions' .... Think. Again. Dec 2023 #3
You are right I believe. Maybe we should ask people who post videos to say that in their OP Maraya1969 Dec 2023 #7
Latest or General? One has labels. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #4
There is a video button at the top of Home page n/tt Hope22 Dec 2023 #5
So there is! Thx. I don't watch many so I long ago glided past that tab and forgot about it. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #6
You are welcome. Hope22 Dec 2023 #16
The red square after the title of the post denotes a video... MiHale Dec 2023 #8
You have to enable that in My DU - Account Settings at the bottom or you don't see them. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #10
I forgot that you have to enable them...sorry... MiHale Dec 2023 #13
No worries. One way or another you got me there. Therefore I rec'ed your post. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #15
Thank you! DUgosh Dec 2023 #11
On the "LATEST" page 2naSalit Dec 2023 #9
If you hide the 'Cable news clips' and the 'Liberal YouTubers' forums.. Princess Turandot Dec 2023 #12
Being able to filter out the video posts for *certain* forums would be very useful. sl8 Dec 2023 #14
There are three forums on DU where most videos are posted EarlG Dec 2023 #17
Thanks, Earl. patricia92243 Dec 2023 #18
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