I see more and more posts that are just a link to a video, post, or article. There’s no text in the description.
I’d like to see some of the article quoted and/or a brief reason this is currently being posted to Lemmy.
When it’s just a link, the cynical part of me thinks it’s just an SEO bot—especially if the account never posts any comments.
What are some ways to encourage posts that are more engaging?
Or should I just ignore, downvote, and/or block those doing this kind of posting?
I think the place for comments is in the comment section. If you post an interesting article but include your own commentary which is stupid or absurd, I don’t know whether to upvote or downvote.
My opinion: Post the link, don’t editorialize the title, put an excerpt from the article if you want, but don’t put your comments in the post itself.
Thats how it should be done
This is how I attempt to do it. I don’t always succeed as I get excited sometimes.
That’s a great idea, I’ma try that from now on.
I always downvote links to videos with no text.
You and me both.
Be the change you want to see
It’s up to the moderators whether to allow those kinds of posts. Sometimes I’ll look at the linked article and post a summary (often just the first sentence after the headline) but I’d rather that the original poster was required to do that. I started !savedyouaclick@lemmy.world and made a few posts there, but no one else posted anything, there so it’s deserted for now.
What are some ways to encourage posts that are more engaging?
as a volunteer mod that’s guilty of linkposting I’d honestly say there’s 2 things that would probably encourage fellow linkers to do more which is:
- Thanking posters who are currently and consistently posting links with additional content/info.
- Donations
- honestly financial support goes a long way for higher quality content, like just look at YouTubers or content creators who have Patreon, Kofi, Liberapay in contrast to those who only have sponsors or aren’t paid at all
Some mods throw a hissy fit if you post more than a link and a headline that matches the story’s exactly. Some people want more than a link and a headline. You can’t win.
Require a description.
How often do you want me to type “I thought this was interesting.”
Or “I thought you guys might find this interesting”
“Thoughts?”
I block that kind of posting, a lot of them are bots.
clients like jerboa can block self-announced bots, which takes care of a lot of them, and if you see the same username posting six posts of questionable quality without any context, you can block them too.
Probably mostly a carryover from Reddit where it’s an either one or the other kind of deal.
I agree to this. But on the off-chance i want to add more sometimes I’ll add a comment in the post. Feels like home, y’know?
It’s a symptom of our modern society and the information age we live in. People don’t have the time to sit and enjoy a long video, they need a 5 second one to keep their attention.
This research paper explains it far better than I can.
Link preview goes hard
