Does anyone else here not care for endless supply of video links posted here??

[Woodswalker]

In all honesty I rarely open them. Often I'm in a place where I can't open one or have the time to listen to an endless stream of News Drivel. I prefer getting my info in posts that are in text. I read rather quickly and waiting for a video to get to the point is something I have little patience for.

[Joe Cool]

1. YES!

I’m here to read, not watch videos of people discussing issues in their basement studio.

[Trueblue1968]

13. I agree with you, I DON'T watch the videos posted here. I would rather READ the news.

I HAVE BEEN A SPEED READER FOR 65 + years. I usually don't wanna watch videos. Please post the NEWS article. Thanks people.

[pnwmom]

33. 100% agree.

Videos can't be skimmed to find the important part -- and so many of these videos are filled with the speaker just pontificating. No, thanks.

[OverBurn]

41. +1

[republianmushroom]

96. agree

[Hekate]

104. I avoid them, esp the ones w all caps & keywords: DESTROYED, MELTS DOWN, HUMILIATED,

…CAUGHT, DERANGED, INCINERATES, BLOWS UP, etc etc etc

[erronis]

47. There has been a "trashening" of videos here. I've started just ignoring that section of the screen.

Too bad. I like to see good videos without 90% devoted to the poster/promoter.

A couple of weeks ago I also complained about this and was nicely told that there is no moderation anymore. I understand that.

However I'd like a way to block a video post without having to first open it (giving it the joy of another "click&quot .

[DBoon]

2. Some posters include transcripts with videos

These folks deserve many many DU valentine hearts for this effort.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. What DBoon Said!

That extra effort needs to be lauded.

[Diamond_Dog]

11. I agree with that. Transcripts are great.

[Cha]

19. Agree.. and I do watch some Vids..

I don't have a tv so I can watch the important news here.

I appreciate the "transcripts" to see if I even want to watch it.

[malaise]

23. THIS n/t

I watch them

[MuseRider]

30. YES!

[Genki Hikari]

43. This, I definitely appreciate

I have a hearing problem that makes it difficult sometimes to pick up words. The volume isn't the concern. I hear the volume just fine. The problem arises either from people who don't enunciate well, or from too much background noise going on for me to distinguish the voices properly. Voices get "lost in the shuffle" for me when there isn't enough "contrast" between spoken word and whatever's going on in the background.

It's an audio process disorder that's my problem, but it is a problem that makes videos especially onerous for me sometimes. I can never watch the Brady Bunch news panels talking over each other for that reason. That sounds like nothing but madness to me because I can't make out anything that's being said in those situations.

[ChazInAz]

93. My issue, exactly.

I can hear, but not well. Since most of these presenters have not received enough vocal training to have Lawrence Olivier or Katherine Hepburn levels of diction, they're lost on me.
Closed captions are my friend!

[calimary]

54. Agreed! Transcripts are HUGELY useful.

Sometimes it’s hard to take the time to watch videos.

And sometimes it’s just completely inconvenient. Or inconsiderate.

For me, I often take quotes from them for our Indivisible group’s Call to Action email. Seeing seeing a transcript would be tremendously helpful!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

87. +1. . . .nt

[wryter2000]

137. Some people include the contents of tweets. Many thanks!

On my phone I have to go to twitter to read a tweet. It’s a pain. I love it when posters make that unnecessary.

[DBoon]

139. If we see a video link with a trandscript or a "tweet" with text

We should rec these Original Posts

We should recognize posts not just for incisive content but also for courtesies in presentation

[wryter2000]

140. Good point

I will

[zipplewrath]

3. Likewise

I've thought about trashing the whole category so it doesn't appear in the Latest Threads section.

[Effete Snob]

72. You can do that?

I thought there were some categories that were included by default.

You may have just given me the best news of the day.

[drray23]

4. i dont necessarily mind it if it is informative but unfortunately

most of those are clickbait. In particular, if it says something like "so an so humiliated etc.." it always turns out its a clickbait.

[enough]

5. I think this is why we have a separate section for videos. Anyone who doesn't want videos

doesn’t have to go there or open posts in that forum.

[erronis]

50. I use the DU Home page for my go-to. Having a large section filled with eye-catching images

is not very helpful when I generally want to read my news/opinions.

[old guy]

75. Yup.

[barbtries]

6. I like them.

if i'm not interested I don't look. different strokes

[CharleyDog]

16. I like them too. Sometimes in my work I need to listen, not read

because my head is down, so I appreciate the videos. Also, I like the short segments, they're usually just the right
length, and no commercials.

And, thank you for the people who take the time for transcripts too, when I don't want to listen, just read.

[mountain grammy]

95. Agree!

[PatSeg]

101. Yes, I think there is room

for both articles and videos. As a rule, I prefer to read posts, but occasionally there is a video that I want to see such as the ones from The Lincoln Project or Meidas Touch. I don't care for long commentary videos however. That is when I'd prefer to read an article. I see enough political commentary on television.

Everyone has their preferences, so it is no big deal to me if people post videos. I do like when posters give a summary of what the video is about though.

[LakeArenal]

106. Exactly.

[TheBlackAdder]

123. I care.

.



.

[we can do it]

7. Especially the ones "BREAKING" that happened days ago.

[mitch96]

8. If it has a description in the post I might or might not open it... I always have a choice

to click on the vid link or not. If I'm not in a "video" mood I just don't open it...
m

[brooklynite]

9. So...don't read them?

[Trueblue1968]

14. SOMETIMES you don't know it is a video. people post videos in GD instead of the video section

[herding cats]

119. How much does that actually harm you?

It's the heart of the modern internet.

It's excessively common in social media and forums now.

I don't see it as an avoidable thing in the future. If people here are going to share content, which they will do, then videos will be a part of their sharing.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Meh

While I actually agree with you, I don't mind them so much. I am capable of just ignoring them. Which I usually do.

[Emile]

15. I like them.

[EarnestPutz]

28. Me too. Like almost everything in my life, there are good and bad things.

[Emile]

125. Exactly

I don't understand why the OP is complaining.

[Polly Hennessey]

17. I don't watch them. I especially don't watch the ones

that begin with commentary. I do believe, however, that plenty of DUers enjoy them.

[Wicked Blue]

18. +1000! nt

[SCantiGOP]

79. I also resolutely avoid the cat updates

Even though I have put many keywords to avoid them, they still show up in the Trending and sometimes the Greatest listings.
Sorry, I’m just not interested in somebody’s daily posting of a sleeping cat.

[Wicked Blue]

102. Amen!

[niyad]

116. Those generally are in the Lounge, or Pets.

[Ohiya]

20. I like some of them in the lounge.

[arkielib]

21. Agree 100%!

[snowybirdie]

22. I tend to

block those who only post videos.

[lamp_shade]

25. A good idea. Thanks.

[FoxNewsSucks]

24. Overall, I like them as it is often something I otherwise wouldn't see.

But, I do think that a summary should be REQUIRED. And clickbait should be banned.

Like many, I often can't watch a video. And I'd rather quickly read a summary than click a video in a post with no clue at all what it's supposed to be about.

I think the best thing would be a summary, with note of the time stamp of the relevant point.

[ornotna]

26. I take it you don't go into the Music Appreciation group then

Other than that and the Video & Multimedia forum I'm not seeing this 'endless supply' of video's in GD.

[Shellback Squid]

27. welcome to DU

[MuseRider]

29. I am with you on this but...

this is a large community and I would bet just as many and maybe more like the videos. I just got used to skipping them with an occasional eye roll because I can almost always ID them now and wonder if they (the people making the video) know how actually inflammatory and ridiculous they sound.

My main problem with them isn't that they are videos but so many say things in a manner that puts it all as critical to read or things like, "We KICKED his ass and he is GOING DOWN!" when essentially it is just a repeat of what we already know with swearing or freak out comments making the story just the same but with extra time spent. I skip those. You can usually spot them by looking at who posts them or just reading the caption..."Trump is OVER! The DOJ is getting ready to send him to his future cell!" lol, things like that.

TRUMP WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM THIS!!!!!

[KPN]

31. When they contain no information other than the click bait,

absolutely yes. On occasion, I amdurpised and pleased, however, by a poster including a brief synopsis. I might even watch the video after that. On the other hand, I almost never watch one posted without it — once in a blue moon at most.

ps — the music videos excepted!!

[BWdem4life]

32. I only watch videos posted in V&M, and then only

while on the exercise bike. But they do provide information in a way you can't get from the printed word.

[Botany]

34. They should be banned ..... don't people know this is a social media web site?

[msongs]

55. can u post a summary please....lol

[Botany]

62. "can u post a summary please?" sure

[Effete Snob]

74. HOKY SHIT!

I did not expect that ghastly face to start screaming.

I can’t stand those “shock videos”.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

148. .

[Silent3]

35. It all depends on the video

If I want raw data, facts and figures, I'd much rather read than watch video.

If it's about how a people are behaving, like the manner someone gives a speech or performs in an interview, video can be great.

There are other contexts, apart from DU, where I LOATHE getting video or audio links when I'd much rather read something. On DU that sentiment doesn't strike me too often.

[appleannie1]

36. I don't always have time to sit and read.

I play videos while I make dinner, dust furniture etc. and read when I have time to sit in front of the computer.

[Ferrets are Cool]

37. I honestly don't care what people post, but I don't watch them.

I would rather read.

[pwb]

38. I like the Midas touch videos.

You can't lump them all together as bad. We all have a choice either way, how does it affect you? Don't watch seems simple?

[Genki Hikari]

39. I now access only LBN and GD

For that very reason. I can read faster than a video can get to the point.

I especially loathe the threads that have x title, and then only a video, no explanation of what the point would be in watching it.

So I saved myself some aggravation and put up bookmarks directly to LBN and GD.

But then I'm not much of a video watcher, anyway.

[packman]

40. Anti-cop videos seem to set the tone

A causal visitor to DU would have to assume, IMHO, that Democrats are anti-law, anti-cops - makes one wonder about the motives about all that posting - trolls??

[erronis]

52. Interesting. That's what I've seen also. I'm guessing interlopers are trying to destroy this forum.

[tiredtoo]

42. I like them

Don't watch them all but, when bored i will click on some.

[UCmeNdc]

44. I like the video links

[Croney]

45. How many threads on this topic does it take to make a change?

Apparently one or two a week forever.

I have no solution but will always rec these complaints.

[Captain Zero]

46. I use them when I need to be hands free/eyes free

I listen to them. Like say I need to wash some dishes and load dishwasher, I'll put on a video and LISTEN TO IT while I stay on task. I enjoy the MSNBC segments that are posted and the Meidas Touch ones. Also if I miss MSNBC one night, I can listen to some segments here.

What I can live without here is posts that refer to crap on Twitter. I'm Done with Twitter.

[MichMan]

48. I don't ever open them

[Ocelot II]

49. We have a video forum, and I wish all videos had to be posted there,

at least if there's no explanation as to what it's about. It's kind of annoying to open a post and find only a video, usually with no description of what it's about besides the video's title, which usually is some tendentious clickbait announcement in caps that someone has been DEVASTATED or DESTROYED, which they never are, and you have to sit through a 20-minute production that some clickbaiter has produced on his iPhone in his parents' basement in order to find out that nobody has, in fact, been DEVASTATED or DESTROYED.

Please, posters of such videos, please stop, or at least post them in the videos forum.

[Quixote1818]

59. LOL. I completely hear you on the "DEVASTATED or DESTROYED" clickbate. It's gotten so tiresome.

The boy has cried wolf way too many times with me so they get completely avoided. And pretty much anything to do with Trump I avoid anymore because nothing seems to come of any of it. Hopefully, one of these days we see a video title that says "Breaking: Trump Indicted on 9 counts!" Until then I am done with all of them.

[keopeli]

51. Unlike other forums, posters simply enter a link and call it a day. Perhaps if we modified the

protocol so video uploads require a video explanation, choosing a category, and a poster comment, the experience would be different. This way, there can be no "paste link and done" posts. All would have a category, description, and comments. It's not a perfect solution, but it's a start.

While I would much prefer an improved Video Forum, I can not say that the column of video links on the right side of the home page does not really bother me. But, because I know good content is hard to find, I rarely click on a video link (without description and comment from the OP).

[Quixote1818]

53. Are you talking about GD or the Video and Multimedia section?

I kind of get it if you're upset at too many videos being posted in GD because that isn't where they belong, but if you mean those going in Video and Multimedia then you totally lost me. DU is set up for a variety of ways to get your information and you can just avoid that section if it isn't for you but a ton of people like it. I often play videos while I am working or cooking. I rarely see videos posted in GD so if that is what you are talking about I just don't see that big of an issue. I just clicked on the first 15 posts here and only saw one and it was a very short Twitter video and those usually are right to the point. If you open something in GD and there is a video then how hard is it to just click on the next thing you're interested in?

I will say that I have gotten to the point I almost never click on a video with hyperbolic titles as the title usually totally blows crap out of proportion. I pretty much avoid anything that says something like "Trump in big trouble". Nothing ever seems to come from any of those. If it says "Breaking! Trump Indicted!" I would most certanly click on that if it EVER happens. LOL

[GreenWave]

56. I prefer original opinions and will read them.

Folks who post videos should provide a synopsis or tell when the blabber head will cease and the headline is spoken about. e.g. at 10:49 you see the Trump bible is upside down...

[LAS14]

57. I rarely open them, but I don't mind them at all. nt

[Duppers]

58. I don't like liver and don't eat it.

Others do. But I don't complain about it being on the table.

But I will not click a blind link without an explanation of its content from a trusted DUer.

[littlemissmartypants]

60. Who else remembers the long ago (it seems) days of the "Meta-discussion" files?

I'm so glad every human brain isn't wired exactly the same way. Heaven forbid we're devastated by an epidemic of extreme Macular Degeneration.

Have you shared your concerns in the Community Help Forum? No doubt there are others in the same boat that would welcome explanations on how to limit those information formats but don’t know how to find it.

You can also use the search feature there to find if this issue has been addressed before. If it has, you may find some suggestions that could help you and others who have the same concerns, cope. There might be some insight found there, too.

The suggestions to trash the post, trash the Group and even putting the posters in permanent time out using full block and ignore are all all good suggestions.

If you need more help than that the Community Help Forum might give you that. Here's the link:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1256

Lately it seems that many videos are accompanied by a transcripts that can be read in lieu of watching the entire video. I've used that feature to speed my way through the information especially if the video is dull as a doorknob.

If you're referring to the seemingly endless parade of Tweets, I feel your pain. It's been a double edged sword. Seems counterintuitive to send your readers off site while trying to maintain a robust readership of devoted community members like DU. There have been instances where I have followed Tweets, fallen in a rabbit hole and haven't come back.

Also, it degrades the content here to an extent, to me at least. I'm either flicking things off like bugs or rolling with the punches.

Goodluck, Woodswalker. I hope you find this helpful. Stay encouraged.

❤️ pants

[Sessuch]

61. I agree

I especially dislike the Brian Tyler Cohen videos.

[gopiscrap]

144. welcome to DU

[Hope22]

63. Block videos. n/t

[Warpy]

64. I'm generally annoyed by Twitter links

but especially when there is no text in the post, just a headline and a bunch of stupid Twitter links. That suckhole of a site takes forever to load and life is short. It's making DU suck.

At least when there is a YouTube video in a post, it plays quickly. There needs to be text with those, also.

[mahina]

65. I like them a lot but not a few shows that repackage news w their opinion

I can usually filter those out because the titles include all caps.

[Prendy]

66. For sure

The vast majority of the videos are from talking head, pundits, who don’t exercise any restraint in editing the length of what they are saying. Writing makes you exercise discipline in what you are saying. By contrast, flipping on the video camera allows the speaker to drone on without consequence. It is the lazy man option for reporting and analysis.

[karin_sj]

67. I like them

Sometimes I like to listen to them while I'm doing something else.

[WheelWalker]

68. I couldn't agree with you more, comrade.

[TygrBright]

69. Yup! Don't mind transcripts, those are okay.

And putting videos in the (DUH!!) "Videos and Multimedia" forum is fair enough, I know what I'm getting when I go there.

But it IS annoying to open up a post in GD and wait for some talking head to load.... nah.

affirmatively,
Bright

[Effete Snob]

70. Poster on DU DESTROYS video posts

[flying rabbit]

84. I see what you did there

[hlthe2b]

71. There are a few posters who are kind enough to fully describe what is presented

and not just leave a "tease" headline. Some even include transcripts when available. If I open a post and see it is just a click-bait headline and a video link--especially if the video is too long to take a chance, I just pass the post by-- somewhat annoyed, admittedly.

There are DUers who are hearing impaired and even more of us who don't have the time to watch 5-10 minutes (or more) of video to get the point that could be conveyed in a sentence or two.

So, I appreciate those who do post these with plenty of context and comment. The others? Not so much.

[ShazzieB]

73. If you don't want to watch them, don't click on them. Problem solved! 😉

Yes, I'm being a little bit sarcastic here, lol. To be honest, I'm not a huge video fan myself, or at least not an indiscriminate one. (For one thing, I'm a very fast reader and don't always have the patience to wait for a video to get to the point.) But there are some videos that I really enjoy and appreciate, and I've gotten pretty good at figuring out which ones those are and ignoring the rest. It is slightly annoying to click on a post that I can't tell is going to be a video, but only slightly. I have a fast enough internet connection that it takes very little time to click back out of a post and move on.

I know for a fact that there are a lot of people here who love the videos, and for that reason, they're not going anywhere. There's no way a site like this will ever match up perfectly with each individual user's personal preferences, and for me that simply means focusing on what I enjoy and find useful and ignoring the stuff that doesn't interest me. I recommend this approach, but I realize it may not not work for everyone.

[cilla4progress]

97. Thanks, ShazzieB

With all the online choices, I just don't get it.

[SCantiGOP]

76. 10 votes Yes

On the occasion I do open one, it’s usually 8-12 minutes long and the first 6 minutes are some random person talking.

[NullTuples]

77. I come here to read. If I wanted video news, I'd go to YouTube or some video news aggregate site.

[Irish_Dem]

78. I listen to them all the time.

While I am doing other things around the house or paperwork.
They are very informative and relaxing.

I get aggravated when not many new ones have come in.

[dembotoz]

80. at times video helps but don't we have bigger fish to fry?

[Wah_Guy]

81. It varies

Twitter posts rarely work for me, video based or otherwise. You Tube stuff is different because it comes right up with the page, and is music a lot of times. I play guitar, I listen to music. Both at the same time once in a while.

[48656c6c6f20]

82. Oh no, YAFMTWTTUHTUDU

Sad really.

[orleans]

91. lol -- what the heck is that? "YAFMTW" etc. ??

[BadGimp]

83. I want MORE videos

eom

[LakeArenal]

107. 😉

[old as dirt]

146. I agree, but the devil is in the details.

I want MORE videos

[femmedem]

85. I'm grateful for the people who take the time to post videos.

On a weekend, or in the morning while I'm waking up with coffee--or even before I fall asleep and missed a show I usually catch--it's a treat to be able to find the videos here. I also appreciate that rather than watch an hour-long MSNBC show, for example, I can often catch the highlights here.

And if I ever cancel my subscription to Sling (thinking about it), I'll be more reliant on the videos here.

People don't need to open them if they don't like watching videos. But I don't understand why anyone would complain about the videos being here. Just scroll past them!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

86. Videos are highly inefficient medium for political analysis

I almost never open a DU posted video.

They are great for how-to videos.

[Arthur_Frain]

88. Age disparity showing

There was somewhere along the way before we lost newspapers for good, but before Facebook took over social media, people of a certain age or younger cannot be bothered to read shit.

I’m with you. When my job decided that all training was to be done via computer assisted instruction, suddenly everything had to have a cutesy little cartoon or embedded animation while you sat there and had to listen/watch someone else’s idea of being clever instead was a colossal waste of my time. Or watch a video.

And, due to recent upgrades in their security/algorithm programs, there are now more, unskippable ads with every video.

We are whistling in the dark I’m afraid.

[betsuni]

89. Lately I don't often find videos here that I like unless it's someone posting in reply

to a request for a link to a video interview or something like that. Too often I click on something and it's some boring guy yammering on and on about a little bit of original video content. Ugh. I marvel how they think they're at all interesting or know anything, but probably like those reality show singing contests where contestants have no idea how terrible they are. At least these days on DU the yammering guy videos are more clearly labeled so I don't click on it and see a yammering guy and yell DAMMIT.

[TeamProg]

90. DON'T LOOK AT THEM! I don't mind at all. I like them!

What a wierd post.

[live love laugh]

114. ✔️

[LisaM]

92. Yes.

I can't always open them and I retain things better when I read them.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

94. I'm a really shallow person so I like them. I also like things that make me giggle.

[question everything]

98. When I post s video, mostly from PBS NewsHour, I also include transcript

and links to both.

[Emile]

99. Are you on a dial-up internet connection?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

109. Lol

[JCMach1]

100. I DO NOT read posts with Twitter links any more...

[Rob H.]

103. Is someone forcing you to watch them?

Are they in the room with you right now?

[petronius]

105. I much prefer text, in most contexts

When a news site serves up a video instead of an article I click away, and I freaking hate it when a help site or user manual is a clip instead of a written document...

[herding cats]

108. It's the evolution of things.

Very soon everything will be lumped in together here just like they are everyplace else now.

We can choose what to consume, or not. It's our choice.

The style of the internet now.

Posts will either be consumed and become "greatest" or not.

I expect videos will still be consumed and voted up. Even if we choose when we view them on our own time schedules.

[electric_blue68]

110. Doesn't bother me.

[PufPuf23]

111. There is a forum dedicated to Videos.

IMO that is where the political and general interest belong.

Post videos as you like in the Lounge, Music, Pets, and other appropriate topic forums.

Think there should be a dedicated Twitter (and other social media) forum too.

I virtually never watch a video over 10 minutes at DU and most I view are under 5 minutes.

[herding cats]

118. What if the video forum is gone in the next generation of DU?

In modern iterations of Internet forums these have been integrated into the mainstream.

I expect the same here.

Videos are now mainstream and normal. Unlike back when this version of our forum was created back when.

Would it be so bad if we just had to choose what we consume here?

[PufPuf23]

121. The different forums at DU basically are just a first step sort.

This nice for folks like me that aren't as swift in the head as were when younger and in better health.

One thing that is changing is the internet in that speeds are so much faster.

I never had anything other than a dial up connection until 2017. There were no better local commercial options for internet access. Pretty much impossible to live stream anything. Since 2017 have had Excede turned to ViaSat and replaced by HughesNet Satellite in 2021. The best I can stream YouTube videos or Amazon Prime is 360p and there are usually buffering problems during high internet use periods of late afternoon and evening. But Hughes is far superior to ViaSat in dependability and service.

[Raine]

112. I agree, i very rarely open them. I prefer to read

what it's about then maybe look at the video. If there is no written explanation I don't bother with the video.

[Samrob]

113. I just appreciate the opportunity to choose. "To each his own."

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

115. I bookmark for later watching unless its a short one I can watch immediately

[niyad]

117. Doesn't bother me. Many are quite informative. And one CAN simply ignore them.

[Rhiannon12866]

120. There is a separate forum here exclusively for videos, that's what the V&M Forum is for - videos.

[TigressDem]

122. Depends on the day and if I have time.

Lots of them I bookmark for later.

I like the Midas Touch videos because they break down some of the laws around what is happening.

I can multitask while I listen if I am at home.

[Emile]

124. Today's video will be an Indiana toddler with a loaded handgun

and he points the gun at himself and pulls the trigger. Keep your eyes open for it. It's a Twitter video or I would have posted it already.

[Generic Brad]

126. 'Aint nobody got time for that

I won't even watch things my kid recommends.

[Hotler]

127. Graduate of Evelyn Wood Speed Reading no doubt. NT

[TeamProg]

133. Ha ha ha!

[Progressive dog]

128. Same here

but I do watch some of the animal or funny videos.

[dlk]

129. Not everyone has time to watch videos

There are only so many hours in the day.

[Spazito]

130. I just scroll past them to the next OP...

and if the OP doesn't state it's a video and I open it and don't want to watch, I simply close the thread and move on. It only takes seconds to move on so I don't get what the problem is. Some like them, some don't, such is life.

[Hortensis]

131. What bothers me is ignorant reaction (often outraged!) posted before and instead

of finding out what's being reacted to. Even in preference to. Embarrassing, as if this was MAGA Underground.

Not all links are created equal, of course, but maybe see offering a link to reliable information as a way of fighting for democracy. In its way, it really is.

[themaguffin]

132. They're fine but should include a text summary.

[Rhiannon12866]

141. And almost all the videos have them, I don't know why so few take the time to include them

[intrepidity]

134. When too many clog your feed

Hide the video forum for awhile. Many will disappear, but you know where to find them.

[IcyPeas]

135. As Sara Lee once said "Everybody doesn't like something... but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee"

[wryter2000]

136. I only dislike them when the headline is misleading

“Democrat DESTROYS Republican on national news.” And you watch it and no one was destroyed. Not even wounded.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

138. I like them. I can ignore them or watch. I very much appreciate when a poster ...

... points to the "good stuff", e.g. it gets interesting at 14:20 into the video.

[Chakaconcarne]

142. To each their own.....

[tishaLA]

143. Video posts, tweet posts, acronyms, posts without enough info

because it's something happening on TV at that moment...

Eventually we might manage to get to eliminating all posts

[iemanja]

145. I rarely watch them

but they are usually in the multimedia section, which is fine.

[Iris]

147. I usually read DU in my phone before bed so skip them. But they don't bother me. Some people prefer

that medium and that's ok

[Swede]

149. Maybe you shouldn't watch them.

Like WTF dude?

[dmr]

150. I don't care. I prefer transcripts, but

depending on what it is, and sometimes who the OP is, I'll either open it, or I won't. Easy as that.