
It’s pretty consistently a big letdown when people post interesting footage on here. Part of that might be because people are trying to hoax us, but part of it might also be because people aren’t aware what’s expected of a good sighting these days. I think we can all agree that we have all seen mountains of stills and tape which show us things in the sky that appear to be inexplicable, to the point where the existence of such no longer needs proving. At this point, we might ask ourselves whether we as a community are really interested in this kind of content anymore.
It could be a good idea to ask people using the “sighting report” flair to take a look at a short how-to session which would guide them through how to get their EXIF data, how to post good contextual information (time of sighting, direction, location, camera/phone model, etc). Maybe make it mandatory, maybe just make it a resource that is shown to them by default… that way we can at least say to people: “you were aware of the expectations of this community regarding context when you came here to post, don’t act offended that we are immediately asking you questions about your sighting instead of acting excited.”
Do I have a good read on how people feel here? Is this something we as a community could do to fight back a little against low-effort disinfo and hoaxers? Would like to hear thoughts about it.
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