Please state when your post is only a Youtube video in the title

[edhopper]

Saves me the time from clicking on it.

Thank you.

[Captain Zero]

1. Same with posts from Xhitter links

I don't care.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Your "Account Settings" are your friends.

[LonePirate]

2. I see a red square 🟥 at the end of the title if a topic has a YT link in it

[edhopper]

5. Thanks!

I did not know that.
You have saved me a load of time.

[Celerity]

19. But ofttimes articles that have a lot of text and are not simply a 'YT/X/BS-only' OPs also do contain social media links

I am quite meticulous with my OPs and try to include the articles' pics and social media parts along with the actual text parts.

[Amaryllis]

8. What is YT?

[live love laugh]

9. YouTube

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Some posters have the courtesy to post a summary. Others just post clickbait crap, no summary because it is crap. nt

[Blue_Adept]

25. posting a video with no summary or commentary on it just means I block the user when I come across those.

Just annoying. Forums aren't twitter.

[thesquanderer]

29. I don't think blocking the user will stop their posts from coming up on the front page,

which is where people are probably inadvertently clicking on them.

[AllaN01Bear]

21. hey. i was just going to say that .!!!!!

if there is a twitter /x vid the square is blue .

[luxmatic]

22. That's for paid subscribers only

A weird quality of life setting to lock behind a paywall but I get it.

[LonePirate]

24. I did not know that. I agree this should be available to all users.

[JI7]

23. But some of us will also post what the video is about

not just the video itself .

[Zorro]

3. Turn on "Show video indicator" in your account settings

[calimary]

15. Learn something new every day!

Sometimes it’s more than just one new thing.

[DoBW]

7. markers

the colored squares are brilliant

[SCantiGOP]

10. Yes! This should be a rule

I ignore video posts (unless it is an important issue from a MSM source) and I generally skip anything with CAPITALS and !!!!!!.

Example: Trump TOTALLY DESTROYED by BRILLIANT YouTube Analysis!!!
Translation: Some random person is going to drone on for 20-30 minutes about what he read on the Internet yesterday before summing it up with a 20 second video clip.

[flvegan]

11. Oddly, this is at least the 3rd recent request for this.

It's almost like they're either not paying attention or simply don't care.

Your campaign has my utmost support however.

[edhopper]

16. Yes

this peeve is a pet of mine.

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. That's what the red square next to the title means

My preference would be to ban videos from General Discussion, only allow them in Cable News Clips and Liberal You Tubers and other specific sub forums, but that’s never going to happen, so I just look for the red square and scroll on by.

I have put several users who *only* post videos on ignore, and that has helped declutter the clickbait from my “latest” post feed.

[SSJVegeta]

14. Plzkthx

[OMGWTF]

17. And please don't repeat your post in the title and again in the body of the post.

And please don't repeat your post in the title and again in the body of the post.

It's annoying AF. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[edhopper]

18. I see what you did there

I see what you did there.

[Cirsium]

26. Very good! I agree.

Very good! I agree.

[Emrys]

32. I love the ones where someone posts a thought in the title, then in the body of the post, they write

n/t

[AverageOldGuy]

20. Ditto for ANY POST THAT IS A VIDEO

Even if the poster attaches a sentence or two telling what the video is about.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to listen to some online "influencer" ramble on for 15 minutes about his/her favorite topic. When I click on a DU comment that turns out to be a video, I drop it and move on.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

27. This.

[tulipsandroses]

28. Nope.

I'm repeating it in the body as well. Nope.

[mike_c]

30. I assume that any video posted without a synopsis...

...wasn't even worth the poster's time, so it certainly isn't worth mine.

[edhopper]

31. Exactly