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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSo, howcum I open 10 threads and 7 of them are just Twitter links?
Again I say if Twitter goes down DU goes with it until we find another another site to leach off of.
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So, howcum I open 10 threads and 7 of them are just Twitter links? (Original Post)
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2022
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Frasier Balzov
(2,668 posts)1. Maybe Musk buys DU?
hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)2. The rest are video links, which I wouldn't mind if there were even a single sentence of context.
I come to DU to read and discuss and even on a good day, I don't have time to watch video after video, though the option is nice. Could we please emphasize doing so (reading and discussing) again?
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)4. subject lines that STAND OUT with RANDOM capitalization
Clickbait.
The video is ten seconds of content youve probably already SEEN in a five minute wrapper of LAME commentary with a clickbait headline.
I had someone tell me that posting a summary ruins the artistic effect of the tension caused by the clickbait headline and gives away the point. As if that is not the purpose of communication.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)3. .