[Meta] I suggest adding a rule to not post videos here.
In my humble opinion, the Technology community should only contain text news/articles or even news pictures.
I simply think that tech videos does not belong to this community, as there is already a videos community which would be more suitable for this.
What does the mods think about this?
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You said it, a summary of a deep dive video is a few paragraphs
Don't fucking post a two hour video that contains a few paragraphs of info then
Exactly. And with AI tools, getting a transcript and generating a summary shouldn't be all that hard.
All I'm looking for is a handful of bullet points that give me a reason to watch the video. I'm not watching a random video someone posts just based on the headline, I need a bit more reason to invest my time to contribute to the discussion. And if you provide a basic summary, I'll probably do the legwork and find some articles to add to the discussion while I'm watching the video.
Write a summary bot then.
Then don't.
You're not that important. If you don't contribute to a discussion just because the submission is a video, nobody will notice.
I'm not specifically talking about myself, I'm explaining the sentiment I see here. Me personally not contributing to those posts probably won't impact anything, and that's fine. But there's a lot of pushback from people who prefer text.
All I'm saying is to put in a little effort to link a relevant text article or add a few bullet points that the video covers. That's it. The barrier to posting stuff should be a little higher than just sending links to things that seem somewhat interesting.
The sentiment here is that a loud minority cries about a tiny fraction of submissions when they could just not watch the videos in the first place.
Literally nobody is stopping you from doing that for other submissions. Don't task unpaid community members to do work for you, just because you don't like videos.
I mean, I do that sometimes, and it's honestly not hard. If I post a video, I post a short summary about why I think it's relevant. I expect the same from others.
And no, I'm not paid either.
Keep doing it for your stuff, don't try to make a rule for others to do the same.
That's the problem. You shouldn't. It's not your call to make. Deal with it.
You're right, it's not my call, which is why this is a Meta post for community discussion, which will ultimately require buy-in from the mods (i.e. those who would enforce such rules). I'm providing my $0.02 to the discussion.
You clearly don't know what a summary is. I can summarize Lord of the Rings in three sentences. The details are still important.
If you don't want to watch such a video, DON'T WATCH IT! Don't forbid others to like what they like!