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  • 07-06-2018 11:23pm
    #1
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,420 ✭✭✭✭


    In forums like 'Politics' there are guidelines against link dumping, but somehow it's ok to post a link to a 'tweet' without any explanation for what that tweet actually says.

    I don't use twitter, why should I be expected to sign up to an external website in order to follow a conversation on Boards.ie?


    I suggest a simple rule, if you're going to post a twitter link, you need to give description of what the tweet says.

    It's not just randomers doing this, but mods and regulars to the politics forum who think twitter links are different to any other kind of link dump.


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    #2
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,726 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    I've not encountered this issue myself, perhaps because I have a twitter account.

    Are you saying that if you don't have a twitter account/aren't logged in to twitter that the tweets don't appear in full?


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    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    As this is not sitewide Feedback, but is instead specific to a particular forum, I’m going to move to the Helpdesk.

    dudara


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    #4
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    hullaballoo wrote: »
    I've not encountered this issue myself, perhaps because I have a twitter account.

    Are you saying that if you don't have a twitter account/aren't logged in to twitter that the tweets don't appear in full?

    they show up fine (legacy site at least), I'm not on twitter and i posted one earlier

    Edit: don't show up on responsive site, do on touch


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,304 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    The newer skins automatically embed the tweet content with pretty graphics. Those of us on the older (superior) original skins just see the link.


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    #6
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    You don’t need to be signed on to twitter to see tweets. FB is different.


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    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Akrasia wrote: »
    In forums like 'Politics' there are guidelines against link dumping, but somehow it's ok to post a link to a 'tweet' without any explanation for what that tweet actually says.

    I don't use twitter, why should I be expected to sign up to an external website in order to follow a conversation on Boards.ie?


    I suggest a simple rule, if you're going to post a twitter link, you need to give description of what the tweet says.

    It's not just randomers doing this, but mods and regulars to the politics forum who think twitter links are different to any other kind of link dump.

    It's not OK, it's against the rules. Report the post and we'll delete it.


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