isn’t that what this entire site is all about, if you find an interesting story or a new point of view on a subject you post it and put up a bit and provide a link to the story if you want to read more about the subject you clink on the link.
[...you post it and put up a bit...]
He forgot the “bit”. He should have given us a clue as to what the clip was about. We may already know it and don’t want to waste 8 minutes.
The way it is supposed to work is you post an interesting “article,” not a video. Then you post a three or four sentence intro to the article, not a tease sentence. Then you post a comment about the article. I won’t go to videos because I can’t speed read a video.
Having been here for almost 20 years, the point of the site is to summarize news articles so people do NOT have to go to the original sites/videos.
I, for one, hate watching videos. I can read faster than the stupid video can play.
No, "put up a bit" should include at least the main point, while severe brevity degrades the site to be more like Drudge. Read: An exhortation to those who post thread (normally post as much of the meat of the article as allowed, describe videos, etc.) if we want to help make FR even better as the premier conservative new aggregator then it is not by uncritically posting a few sentences from clickbait articles from such sites as bigleaguepolitics.com, which means actually going to the article and navigating btwn ads in order to see more, and finding the source article (if there is one) to get the complete story. Nor carelessly posting the first few sentences of stories including ad lines as some even do. But by providing the most pertinent excerpts in the first 100 words from the source (that number is what will show up under FR Articles (if you choose Text), and up to 300 word excerpts where allowed for copyrighted articles.
This helps if we seek to help people who want to be better informed about issues pertinent to Christian and conservative issues, of which FR is the best (and best moderated) among the rest. On FR you can select (under Settings) up to 250 articles being shown in Latest articles, with as said, up to 100 words being shown, with no ads (except the raiser). Thus a scanning of FR twice a day one can keep up with such events and input without taking much time.
In contrast, having to go to other sites since the post lacks important basic info usually means facing all sorts of ads, while in the background network requests can be slowing down your system (Gateway Pundit means loading up to 500 network requests in the background for its homepage, versus 3 for FR articles page). In addition, trying to post comments on such means having another account with such liberal services as Disqus, and risking "awaiting moderation" and often deletion of your work (esp. if linking to FR) due to a bot and biased mods.