I see more and more posts that are just a link to a video, post, or article. There’s no text in the description.

I’d like to see some of the article quoted and/or a brief reason this is currently being posted to Lemmy.

When it’s just a link, the cynical part of me thinks it’s just an SEO bot—especially if the account never posts any comments.

What are some ways to encourage posts that are more engaging?

Or should I just ignore, downvote, and/or block those doing this kind of posting?

  • solrize@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s up to the moderators whether to allow those kinds of posts. Sometimes I’ll look at the linked article and post a summary (often just the first sentence after the headline) but I’d rather that the original poster was required to do that. I started [email protected] and made a few posts there, but no one else posted anything, there so it’s deserted for now.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    I think the place for comments is in the comment section. If you post an interesting article but include your own commentary which is stupid or absurd, I don’t know whether to upvote or downvote.

    My opinion: Post the link, don’t editorialize the title, put an excerpt from the article if you want, but don’t put your comments in the post itself.