I am not on this site to watch videos

[EarlG]

19. We just had a long thread on this less than a week ago so I'll re-use my locking message

If people want to post videos, they are more than welcome to. We provide a couple of specific forums for certain specific types of video, but other than that people can post videos wherever they like.

Star Members can see which threads contain videos because on the Latest page and in forums, a little red square shows up next to the thread title if a thread contains a video. If you’re a Star Member and you don’t see it, make sure you have the indicator turned on in Account Settings.

We have a lot of people who spend a lot of time bringing interesting videos to DU, and I support those efforts. We’ve also provided tools for people to avoid seeing the majority of videos, and I encourage people who don’t want to see videos to use those tools, rather than try to disparage the efforts of people who bring the videos to DU.

I don’t disagree that it would be helpful for people to post a brief explanation of the video, but it’s not compulsory, and many people already do that anyway. So with that said I’m going to lock this now. People who like to post videos on DU should not be made to feel as if they’re doing something wrong.