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?
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?
I generally use the body text field for a snippet of the page I’m linking to, usually a paragraph or two that I felt were important takeaways from the article (so that people who generally only skim headlines may still see something useful from the article).
If I’m linking to an article, I personally don’t like putting my own opinion in the OP, itself. I’d rather it be a top-level comment, instead, as it feels like grandstanding on somebody else’s work when it’s in the OP body.
Yeah, the way you described is what I’d also recommend, and I try to do the same.
For articles, try to stick to pulling out information from the article and adding little to it. I don’t feel that good having “my comment” at the top of everyone else’s, except when I add guiding direction for discussion (What are your thoughts?, Keep it civil, What would you do?, etc.)