Is there a way to make it so videos do not show up in Latest Discussions

[patricia92243]

The Latest Discussions has gotten to about 2/3 just links to videos ..There is a Video section.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Yeah, I've noticed. Thanks, and good morning. NT

[Scottie Mom]

2. Yes, please, less videos.

So often, the video is meaningless. The exception appears to be ones about rescued animals. Those are worth their weight in gold.

[Think. Again.]

3. Isn't 'Latest Discussions' ....

....a listing of all newly posted material in any of the forums or 'sections'?

That would include any new videos posted in the Videos Section, wouldn't it?

[Maraya1969]

7. You are right I believe. Maybe we should ask people who post videos to say that in their OP

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Latest or General? One has labels.

Are you proposing to block any post that has a video anywhere in it? Any OP with a video? Even OPs with a skippable video and six paragraphs of well written text?

Do you mean the "Latest" tab that goes to a page headed "Latest Discussions"? All the posts shown there are categorized. If the posts are primarily video, they will show up labelled there as to the forum which would be Liberal Youtubers or Cable News Clips or Music Appreciation or Netflix Streaming Videos DVDs. Easy to avoid. It's a problem?

Do you mean General Discussion? It's its own forum so video-centric posts are not labelled, but should be.

I'm not seeing and have not seen a 2/3 ratio in either place. There is no "Video section" { on edit: there is the tab}, but there are the four (or more?) forums I mentioned.

Other posts / OPs should have some discussion first, and maybe a video to explain or provide context to a point. So that the video can be skipped.

All video posts should have an explanation of why someone should spend time looking at the video. I and many other people do not have time to look at a dozen videos for a minute each to decide if they want to spend ten minutes each watching the rest of them. I can pop into and skim a dozen OPs in a minute. Not so with videos. I can read an article three times faster than I can watch the equivalent words being read in a video. Plus most videos have a lot of "Hi, thanks for watching, isn't it great that you are here, donate to my patreon, the weather is great here today, I'm so excited to bring you this news, you'll love it, blah blah blah....".

[Hope22]

5. There is a video button at the top of Home page n/tt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. So there is! Thx. I don't watch many so I long ago glided past that tab and forgot about it. . . . nt

[Hope22]

16. You are welcome.

Things have been changing so much who knew?😁

[MiHale]

8. The red square after the title of the post denotes a video...

Skip it if you don’t like to watch. The blue square is for posts with tweets. Some tweets have videos it’ll have both squares red and blue.

I’d rather read the news if I wanted videos I’d watch TV. Posters should give a synopsis of the video so we could see if it interests us also. Most people don’t sit all day online, watching a video for 3-4 minutes before the point is even mentioned takes huge chunks of the day to waste.

My opinion only. That’s why I love the squares it’s like a warning.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. You have to enable that in My DU - Account Settings at the bottom or you don't see them.

Not seeing any red or blue squares. I do see the little x box for trashing the thread. I haven't enabled those squares. Going to give it a try.

I'm back. It works.

[MiHale]

13. I forgot that you have to enable them...sorry...

I did it right away, day one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. No worries. One way or another you got me there. Therefore I rec'ed your post. . . . . nt

[DUgosh]

11. Thank you!

[2naSalit]

9. On the "LATEST" page

Each title indicates whether there is video or xitter links in the OP by way of a little blue or red box at the end of the title. I skip most of the xitter kink OPs but many of the utoob videos are something I might want to see, if so, I look at the OP, if there's no description or I can't tell what it's about, I skip that too.

You can see, I would think, the little red and blue indicators to know which OPs have video links on those platforms.

[Princess Turandot]

12. If you hide the 'Cable news clips' and the 'Liberal YouTubers' forums..

... that will remove a lot of them from the Latest Discussion feed. (Go to the individual forum and click 'trash forum' on the top bar.)

Also, there isn't a Video forum per se these days. The topside video tab seems to aggregate new discussion posts with videos in them from the various groups.

[sl8]

14. Being able to filter out the video posts for *certain* forums would be very useful.

In some forums, I'd expect and appreciate seeing a lot of video posts. "Music Appreciation" comes to mind, but there are several others.

In other forums, especially ones where I'd expect to see hard news, videos of someone I don't know pontificating over some kernel of news are just chaff, to me.

With regard to your your question, "Trashing" a forum will prevent its posts from appearing in "Latest", but that's a very blunt solution. That's what I've done with the two video forums, and it helps, but it's far from an ideal solution

[EarlG]

17. There are three forums on DU where most videos are posted

If you go to each of these forums and click the "Trash forum" button at the top right, it won't eliminate every video from the Latest page, but you will likely experience a significant reduction in videos.

Cable News Clips:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1321

Liberal YouTubers:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1322

Music Appreciation:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1034

Trashed forums can be restored at any time if you change your mind, by visiting your Trash Can (click the My DU tab, then the Trash Can button).

[patricia92243]

18. Thanks, Earl.