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I think people should stop posting news articles unless they have something to say. (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 8 months ago by actual_patience to c/[email protected]

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There are some communities where the vast majority of posts are by on or two users reposting news articles.

Sometimes they'll summarize below, but they will almost never share their opinions on the article, or even just ask what others may think about in regards to this aspect or that aspect. So the entire feed is just URLs.

I would feel more engaged to comment on those posts, or even start a post in the community, when it doesn't feel like a bunch of robots reposting the daily slop.

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[–] actual_patience 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

would kill the community

I'm of the opposite belief. I think some communities stay dead bc there's just one person constantly posting articles with zero input. I avoid these "zombie" communities. Regular dead communities are more enticing to post in for me.

start one, and unsubscribe from the communities you don't like.

This would create even more fracturing, which is already a big problem here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If you do end up finding or making a community like the one you want, I suggest you make it so the poster's opinion is added in comments not in the post itself. Otherwise it becomes impossible to distinguish between votes for the article and votes for the comment. It's already bad enough that you can't distinguish between votes for the newsworthiness/quality/source of an article vs the feelings on the content.

Take this article as a case in point: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/11159076

What are people downvoting? Is the article not worthy of being news? Is the article from a bad news source? Do people dislike what happened in the case? Or are people downvoting the poster's commentary?

In my opinion that article should be sitting at a positive score as news, so it is visible to more people and available for discussion.