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.)
I think a post body should usually be empty if it’s a link, or at most should provide a summary or key points.
If you as the OP want to editorialise or provide your opinion on the article, do that in a top-level comment. And most of the time, you should do that. If you’re posting it, you probably have an opinion, so get the conversation started by sharing it!
This probably the best approach, otherwise we end up with essays about their grandmother’s love for certain recipes and the inspiration that their cooking was.
Plus, half the time people just want to share something cool they found.
I usually block people who post like that since they post like bots usually. You can’t tell me someone is reading 30 articles in 10 minutes and comprehending them all.
Link, the reason it was posted and what is the outcome you’re expecting by posting. That should start the conversation while avoiding that click-baitish feeling.
I don't think anyone gets to decide what a person "Should" be doing, who are these "should-ers" that get to make these decisions?
It's like putting a dead cow in a museum and calling it art. SHOULD it be art just because it's there? Or SHOULD there be some explanation or clue as to what the "artist" who put the cow there is trying to say? It's something I've thought about in relation to what constitutes art, and what doesn't.
My point here is just that in my view, it's helpful to have some more input rather than just a link when it's not apparent why the link matters or might be significant.
I like at least some topic discussion points for the community to interact with. Sometimes it seems like a post is just a cross reference to a Reddit post. The organic Lemmy content reminds me of the old Reddit days and brings me joy
An opinion from OP is the last thing I want to see in the post body. If you want use it as a summary for the post, but save your idiotic opinions for the comments.
Only if it’s self-explanatory, otherwise it could be anything. It could still be anything, but I’m usually less suspicious if there’s some effort on the OP’s part with the description and such.
Well, lemmy is supposed to be a link aggregator, that’s what posts are supposed to be.
I actually really enjoyed reddit back when it was just links and text posts. As soon as they allowed image (and worse, video) posts, content quality took a nose dive.
So I’d actually would love if lemmy would have options to disable these on a community level (I think you can already disable it on an instance level).
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