What do you think of posts that are only a link? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Zachariah@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Should all posts include a thought, opinion, or summary from the OP? Is a post title usually enough?

If you appreciate posts that just a link to a video, news article, blog post, or website with no post text by the OP, why do you like them?

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[-] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Depends on the sort of link.

If it's an image and doesn't produce a thumbnail for some reason, kind of bummed 'cause I seem to run into those often on mobile & don't like the feel of bouncing between apps/tabs on mobile as much. Similar situation with videos tbh, except add in that I don't like listening to videos on my phone without headphones & I typically don't have headphones on me since I'm not using my phone for that sorta thing often.

If it's an article and the title's simply the headline of it, I don't mind too much. A summary or some quoted parts of the main point of the article are appreciated, especially if it's from a paywalled site.

If it's from an unfamiliar site with few indicators of what's up with the link then I really would like the OP to indicate wtf they're posting a link to in the title & body text 'cause otherwise I'm inclined to think it's spam or worse, and generally that tends to be the case.

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