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[EarlG]

65. The only way I can think of to handle this would be

to include something in the Statements of Purpose (SOP) in the Cable News Clips forum and in the Liberal YouTubers forum which mandates that a synopsis must be posted.

This would not completely solve the problem since people can post videos anywhere on DU, and I don't want to change the SOP for every forum. But it would likely cut down the problem significantly, since that's where most of the videos on DU are posted -- certainly that's where videos which typically need a synopsis tend to be posted.

There is no way to automatically enforce this though, so that people are *forced* to post a synopsis when posting, or forced to include a substantive synopsis. It would have to be handled after the fact (ie. threads without an appropriate synposis could be locked, per the SOP). Then you start running into issues with "what counts as an appropriate synposis," but I guess that would decided and handled by the video forum hosts.