Timeline for Video Questions and Answers
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| Jun 3, 2018 at 18:52 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @SampoSarrala It doesn't entirely kill accessibility, e.g. you can use OCR, automated captioning, etc. Furthermore, other answers in my example are textual, which shows that if a good answer is image/video-only, then it's possible for other users to post textual answers as complement. | |
| Jun 3, 2018 at 18:50 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @Ramhound if an answer received 320 upvotes and only 1 downvote on stack overflow, I still expect it to have been mostly upvoted on superuser. | |
| Jun 3, 2018 at 18:49 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @fixer1234 to me my example proves that we shouldn't have any rule on systematically banning image/video-only answers, just let the users vote. | |
| May 28, 2018 at 1:43 | history | edited | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2018 at 1:41 | comment | added | Ramhound | @FranckDernoncourt Your example is over at StackOverflow, I consider Superuser to have higher standards, then StackOverflow. | |
| May 27, 2018 at 22:50 | comment | added | Sampo Sarrala | video or pics only kills accessibility on so many levels | |
| May 27, 2018 at 19:37 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Proves that there's an exception to every rule. It has been useful to a lot of people, but not to all readers who might have benefited. :-) | |
| May 27, 2018 at 19:21 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @fixer1234 It has shortcomings but the number of upvotes it received shows it was useful to many users. If you look at stackoverflow.com/users/2478933/manu97?tab=reputation the upvotes didn't come from HNQ but a consistent appreciative readership. | |
| May 27, 2018 at 19:19 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Out of several million answers on SO+SU, you found one that got massive upvotes during a HNQ run. It still suffers from the shortcomings of a textless answer. | |
| May 27, 2018 at 18:26 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @fixer1234 Here is one example where an image-only answer has been massively upvoted: How is Docker different from a normal virtual machine? | |
| May 27, 2018 at 18:26 | history | edited | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 23, 2018 at 16:22 | comment | added | music2myear | There's plenty of reasons I had thought of why video should not be the sole source of content for either questions OR answers here, I just had not thought of search. I'm not sure what you're trying to get at @barlop. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 16:19 | comment | added | barlop | @music2myear if you hadn't thought of search as a reason then what had you thought of?! The whole point of these things is a database that helps people, (which yes is searchable otherwise it's pretty useless). Hence the focus on no duplicates and on editing things to make them better even after the person asking them is fine. | |
| May 21, 2018 at 15:59 | comment | added | music2myear | Just as links can be helpful as "extra reading" on a subject but should only support the solution text and not be required to perform the actual solution, videos can hold the same place. Frankly, I hadn't thought of search as a reason to avoid video content, but that's a very good reason. Another would be our visually impaired colleagues. | |
| May 19, 2018 at 0:17 | comment | added | fixer1234 | 6) A video can be a good supplement to text. | |
| May 19, 2018 at 0:08 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Thoughts: 1) Good videos can be helpful, but very few of those linked are good. 2) You already address link-only. 3) Searches can't find information contained in a video. 4) People are sometimes unable to view videos (may be blocked, may be in a setting where it would disturb others, etc.). 5) Videos don't lend themselves to replicating the steps. The user needs to transcribe them or reproduce them as notes. So that content should be included in the question. | |
| May 19, 2018 at 0:01 | comment | added | Ramhound | Some other location could in theory not support animated images. It’s unlikely, but the point still stands, an image only answer without any explanation or even context is not helpful. If a single sentence cannot be written, to answer a question, that’s a serious red flag the question has an issue also. | |
| May 18, 2018 at 23:59 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @Ramhound If i.stack.imgur.com disappears, there'd be some serious uproars as many posts depend on images and .gif. I believe the guideline is to assume images stored on i.stack.imgur.com will never be removed (at worst, moved to some other location, in which case links would be updated). | |
| May 18, 2018 at 23:55 | comment | added | Ramhound | If an answer contains nothing other then an animated.gif, then if that .gif is ever not accessible (it could happen the Imgur link could cease to work), then the answer is unlikely to be helpful. Which is the reason an image only answer, should be either improved so it contained a written explanation, or deleted if that’s not possible | |
| May 18, 2018 at 23:39 | history | answered | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |