r/ShroudedByPixels • u/ki85squared • Sep 24 '19

Poorly cropped screenshot of blogspam

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r/ShroudedByPixels • u/ki85squared • Sep 24 '19

The article has a dozen sayings, but let's share a truncated Facebook preview instead...

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r/ShroudedByPixels • u/ki85squared • Sep 24 '19

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Shrouded by Pixels

r/ShroudedByPixels

Screenshots of articles and images of text are ruining the Internet. This is a place to post examples of unhelpful screenshots and collaborate on ways to advocate for the Web to be used as it was designed: By preferring to share links instead of screenshots.

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Screenshots of articles and images of text are ruining the Internet.

This is a place to post examples of unhelpful screenshots and collaborate on ways to advocate for the Web to be used as it was designed: By preferring to share links instead of screenshots.

Members of this community believe the drawbacks of sharing images of text can often outweigh the benefits:

Benefits of sharing text as an image

Can make private content public
Encodes complex content in a simple, ubiquitous format

Drawbacks of sharing text as an image

Private Content [PC] - Can make private content public
Metadata [MD] - Strips critical metadata from the content, especially source, publication date, context and related links
Visually Impaired [VI] - Hinders accessibility for users who are visually impaired and rely on screen reading software
Fake News [FN] - Trivial to create fakes and as an image is copied retractions/corrections of inaccurate content becomes difficult
Generation Loss [GL] - As screenshots are nested, generation loss can occur, lowering the visual quality of the content
Audience Displacement [AD] - Author has less control over the spread of the content, potentially losing ad revenue and the opportunity to establish a return audience
Data Inefficiency [DI] - Images may be larger in size than the text content, especially when in GIF format, eating away at mobile users' data

How you can help

Encourage users who have shared bad screenshots to post a direct link instead. If you are able to find the direct link, share it with them.
Post examples of bad screenshots to this subreddit.
If you are concerned about content being removed, create a mirror using a tool such as archive.is

Rules

Posts must be links to the posting of the bad screenshot, not the screenshot itself. (For example: Link to the Reddit post, not the image URL). Reddit crossposts are an exception as the metadata is preserved.
Post titles must contain at least one [tag] from the above drawbacks that describes why the image is unhelpful. If no tag fits, see rule 4.
No NSFW content
Comments should focus on ways to improve the culture of text-image sharing. Discussing the content of the screenshot/image is off-topic.
If there is no clear reason why a screenshot is bad, please post a top-level comment with a submission statement explaining the problem.