How Things Work

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How Things Work

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[META] Just links to videos? (self.howthingswork)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pglpm to c/howthingswork

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I'd be interested in joining a community like this, but one where people explain things themselves, maybe even with experiments they did; or where people comment and compare different explanations found online – also to check their correctness. At the moment I only see links to (mostly) youtube videos. But then I can simply do a search on youtube myself. I wonder if this community would like to do something more.

This is just my opinion and a question, I completely understand if people prefer to do differently!

Moderators: please feel free to delete this comment if unimportant. Sorry for the outlier.

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[–] jjagaimo 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can post links, gifs, videos and or text explanations (or other formats if appropriate). If there are more aspects to the topic that you feel a single source doesn't cover, you are more than welcome to post follow ups in the body of the post or comments

In terms of individual experiments I feel like it would moreso fall under the context of a broader topic/explanation so you would be free to start a post with a general explanation and then start working out in the comments the details of experiments and bodies of data. If you feel that you or the source provides a sufficient explanation, feel free to put that as the main link / body content

One thing I will probably update is to add [Question] tags as well

Also for a bit of context, I used to run r/howthingswork and it didnt feel right linking gifs and content hosted on reddit directly or on gfycat since thats shutting down

[–] pglpm 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the explanation.