Comment on [META] Community discussion regarding AI & clickbait
nicerdicer@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
What could help regarding clickbait titles is to add a short description in the body about the video content (“This video is about [topic]”). One short sentence shoud suffice. Most videos are embedded (at least on desktop), and such added description would be displayed underneath the emdedded video. This way you will know what the video will be about and can decide if it would be worth watching.
When creating a post containing a video there is an option to auto-suggest the title, as it is often the same from the video source. Most posters use this, as it matches the video title from the source.
I think video titles shouldn’t be changed, no matter how much clickbaity the titel is, because the video most likely is named the same on the original source (Youtube mostly).
I don’t care about the appearence of thumbnails. To me they are indicators that this is a video and that you have to click on it in order to play.
I know of a Youtube channel that uses clickbaity thumbnails deliberately, because they are so ridiculous (thumbnails contain red circles or arrows that point somewhere and faces that show a surprised or stunned expression). These thumbnails in particular don’t represent the videos’ content at all.
qaz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Good idea, but perhaps as request instead of as a rule.
I’m not sure about this since a large amount of videos are from YouTube which blocks the request to fetch the video title in Lemmy.
Are you okay with the current status quo of asking people to do so but not removing posts that don’t?
nicerdicer@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
That must be new then. As far as I can remember, last time I linked a Youtube vide, the title was suggested automatically.
Yes.