Like many of y'all, I read a fair number of Lefty websites

[EarlG]

9. I appreciate that you didn't present this as

a general attack on everyone who posts videos on DU, as others have done in the past.

I don’t disagree that the hyperbolic titles chosen by the people who create these videos (not by the people who post them on DU) are often annoying at best.

When they are re-posted on DU, posters typically try to preserve the original title, which (unless you’re posting in LBN) is not required, but in theory should be not be a problem.

However, the way modern videos are presented also often falls afoul of that age-old message board standard, which is “don’t post titles in all caps because it reads like you’re shouting at people.”

Of course this TACTIC is nowadays frequently DEPLOYED because it’s EFFECTIVE at grabbing ATTENTION. At the same time, it gets tiring to read after a while.

As always, my recommendation to avoid almost all of this is to simply trash the Liberal YouTubers forum, which is where 99% of these titles are posted. However, since that does not hide the video titles from the home page, it may be time for DU to request that these titles are “decapitalized” when re-posted, or even rewritten to ensure that the title matches the content of the video.

It might be difficult to explain this to people though — there isn’t a perfect enforcement method. I’ll have to keep thinking on it.