Hi Frens, FractalizingIron's post about including sauce when posting reminded me of this. Please, please, PLEASE make your post titles searchable. There is a wealth of great information on this board, and it's possible to find information posted even years ago - - if you can search with the correct terms.
A lot of people complain about the search feature here. (Apparently, it doesn't work for everyone.) And of course, it doesn't search the content of threads, just the titles. That's why it's so important to have good keywords in your titles - so that you and frens can find that info at a latter time.
For instance, post titles like,
"You're not going to believe this!"
"Here we go again."
"Must see!"
.... and others that don't contain keywords relevant to the post will likely fade away in a day or so and never be seen again EVEN IF THEY CONTAIN GOOD INFO. But post titles that use specific keywords relevant to the post can be searched and found years later. Here's an example. Say you're going to post that video of Gavin Newsome in a zoom call with Biden, complaining about misinformation regarding the fires in his state. You might consider using any of these examples,
Cali Democrat whines. Who's surprised?
Typical democrat ducking responsibility.
Can you believe the nerve of this guy?
And anybody trying to find that thread again won't be able to find it. Instead, using specific keywords would allow you or others to find the thread again. Something such as this:
Gavin Newsome decries Misinformation about California Fires.
With that title, a person could find that thread using any of these search terms,
Gavin Newsome
Misinformation
California Fires
I actually wrote about this post title issue a few years ago and the thread was even stickied. Clear post titles seem like such an obvious thing, and we're probably all guilty of being vague at times. But I think it bears repeating. Please, help your frens and yourself out by thinking of helpful and searchable key words when posting a new thread. Cheers, frens.
This is a much appreciated and important post. I recommend a sticky.
If only I could get my coworkers to treat the email subject line in the same manner.
😂yes.
All good advice.
I found this tip helpful:
When one finds an interesting article, stripe and copy (Ctrl + C) the title. Plop it (Ctrl + V) in the search community box (top-right of screen). If something comes up - go ahead and comment, If nothing comes up - open the Create Post button.
Now, paste the whole title in (Ctrl V, same paste). Add some more words for 'effect', or relevant keywords, as suggested in OP. Then, use the dropdown menu to make it a link-post. Add the link (Ctrl + C in article address, then Ctrl + V, in new post).
Save.
All done. Now, others can find the article and not make a similar post.
☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻 This right here.
I can't tell you how many times I've done a search before posting and backed off it because it was already posted.
Great suggestion - thanks for reminding us
I've searched, found nothing, posted, gotten my ass chewed for not searching before posting ......
Agree, that has been my experience too. Very sorry about those times. This site can be wonky at times. If you ever got chewed out and didn't deserve it, I hope it was only one push-up we asked you to do, haha. Thanks for your understanding.
Lol it is what it is. No one is perfect and mods do a great job here.
MVP Right here. Thank you for doing this. Obviously, myself, as a mod here, it looks extra bad if I make this mistake, which I still often do. Sometimes after 3 or 4 searches you go ahead and post something and then you later see the post in question.
Also, please note, I noticed that often I will search for a post and I blatantly do not see it in search. I will only see it hours later and it's the first time I've ever seen it. What I am saying is that this site can be wonky at times. Again, thank you for your patience, everyone.
It's hard enough to be a mod, and also hard enough to be a high-effort quality contributor. Attempting to be both at the same time is the work of titans.
Thank you mods. God bless the Mods!
AND, to avoid redundancy,, ALSO do a search for one or two key elements of the subject, phrase or name before posting, because someone may have already posted it with a "spin", summary or misspelling.
To search inside posts, go to yandex.com, and search for
[whatever terms] [usernames] site:greatawakening.win
Enclose anything where you want a phrase, or to require the search terms in “quotations”.
Find myself more and more going to Yandex as a decent alternative to [Bleh].
Oh seriously, that's a great tip.
Damn it, I wish I could sticky comments. We once had a score dev finally agree to working with us, after over a year of asking patiently, and then they were in the middle of working with our dev, and then they suddenly just completely ghosted us. Won't reply to emails, just completely we're like non-existent to them now
Copy useful comments into a read-only sidebar thread that only mods can add to?
I actually had a note to make just such a thread yesterday. They’re free to yoink and/or sticky what gets put together.
This comment blipped into a thought today that is sitting in some modmail messages now.
I think it could work, but you guys would have a better idea. Uses some variation on greekish’s idea.
Thanks very much for bringing it up. I read about this technique years ago and I forgot.
Too bad click-bait titles are what people use. They aren't trying to share information, they just want to receive internet points. It's all over the internet, not just here
Well, wait. I think titles can still be fun, maybe 'attractive,' shall we say, but they definitely should summarize sort of what the content is, as well. It can be both around here as far as I'm concerned.
This. Sometimes people know it's bull shit and still post it just because it'll get them attention.
I tend to think its not many. Not here.
I'd say the misposters are either shills / fleeced wolves, who post in order to disrupt signal and increase noise, promote fake or disruptive narratives, or otherwise simply unthinking frogs, who either don't know better or who are just a shade that side of being lazy, and who don't apply a self-critical or responsible approach.
But maybe that's because I tend to focus on those? Maybe I simply overlook the bullshit artists...
<insert "hmmmm" imojo>
Short and to the point: "Sunday Funnies".
Indeed. Always on target.
Wrong, u/uncle _fester!! This is now a bad title. From now on all your titles must read:
THEREBY, WHEREFORE, AND HERIN THIS POST YOU SHALL FIND PRESENTED A CONCISE AND COMPREHENSIVE COMPENDIUM OF THE MOST DANKEST OF MEMES TO BE FOUND UPON THE INTERNET OVER THESE PAST 168 HOURS HAVING ELAPSED SINCE THIS PAST PREVIOUS SUNDAY
🐸🙄🫠😂👌👌🐸 /s
Erm, you omitted "FUNNIES" and "SUNDAY". 🙄
Haha, that's kind of the joke, that's where I included 168 hours ago. But you are right! Shit doesn't work does it 😸👍
As one who serves at the alter of the Cat, I am compelled to obey.
Haha. Of course I'm kidding, but you are very creative and meme oriented, if you came up with a more descriptive title that would be hilarious. But you seriously don't have to I'm just teasing around with you 🐸😂👌
You forgot one - "BREAKING!"
As in "You're BREAKING my sense of restraint here. Stop posting this crappp!!!!" ?
Blind headlines suck. And give a nutshell too.
Yes, especially when long videos are posted with no info. At least give a synopsis.
Oh man, NOT a fan of this practice. Sheesh. even short videos without more info than a headline are more often than not, bleh.
And, if there's a point or points in the video that is/are important, link to that/those points (append &t=xmys for the time [x minutes and y seconds] marker in youtube) or provide close hour:minute:seconds pointer(s) for other sources.
Good post.
If we spent even 10% of our board effort and time and posting on [improving our skills, practices and refining our abilities], this board would soar!
Thank you OP.
Also, "BREAKING NEWS!"
Also, from our healthy discussion the other day in the previous sticky about Oprah leaving the United States, many frogs requested and upvoted comments about removing duplicate posts. The mod s will work on that.
Please note that, from a modding perspective, this is sometimes a gray area. Sometimes we'll have a title saying something like, SpaceX blocked by Congress, or something like that, but it's a screenshot to an X post (which is good if you just need to know a specific drama point), but then, later on you might see a post that says, SpaceX blocked by Congress, but it's a gateway pundit article full of detail analysis that goes deep into the topic. Obviously the mods will leave this, but, for frogs skimming GAW, they might think "muh stupid duplicate posts." Please use discernment. Thank you!
One recommendation. Before stickying some random tweet. Read the comments and see if it's bull shit.
Also, if a poster provides no sauce, don't sticky it. Even Preddit has these rules in place.
Oh lordy, the next time I do this I am going to ban myself again aren't I 😂
What ever happened to the list of "banned sites" for posting? Maybe I dreamed that up, but I'd swear there were certain sites (like Real Raw News, or that US Civil Defense News X user, or people like Stew Peters and Hugh Hewitt) that tend to post BS, click-bait, unsourced info, half-truths, or complete nonsense. I've seen a fair amount of those lately.
I'm not a believer in censorship. Just label them appropriately as "unsourced" or whatever. For example, people such as Ben Fulford, Alex Jones, David Icke and many others all post BS but up to 80% could be truthful. Just use discernment.
Archive offline too!!
How about "research before you post something"
That's more important than being able to search.
not an either / or.
both are desirable, and more than likely amplify each other.
Great reminder!
Great advice, thank you gobby 👍
Another tip for keeping titles searchable, is to remove any copied formatting codes from the title (such as Bold, Italics, etc).
This might happen if you copy-paste a formatted line from an HTML-page into the title field of your GAW-post.
Such formatted titles will not show up in any search. ( see https://greatawakening.win/p/17txjvgphT/------/c/ )
Good post ! 👍🇺🇸
Especially if you're linking an article: use the actual title! It's useless for searching when the post title is some personal opinion instead. If you're going to add something to the title like for context put it AFTER the original article or video title.
Thanks you!!! I come to GAW for research and intel into what's going on...not clickbait.
I can’t upvote enough. Thank you.
👀 Did someone say, hivemind?! I was just writing up a detailed post about this. The amount of times I've had to click a post to even know what it was about during the last couple weeks has been infuriating!
It might also be help fun to use just keywords rather than the entire title of a linked article. In other words, rather than a 3-line title of a post, which is the title of the linked article in the post, a few key words can grab the attention of the reader.