Although he was one of the first people to receive a cochlear implant. He still relies on lip reading and CC as backup. He is almost 80, sign language was not taught in our area when he was growing up. He is an excellent lip reader.

Growing up around him, I learned to be descriptive in writing and speaking. I over-enunciate words.

Sorry you are having this issue. It is better for all if there is a description, but especially for you!

Thanks for this -- I'm a hearie, and I think people should consider that when someone asks for a description of a video, there is a good reason. They can oblige without assuming that the asker is lazier than they are (and they are!).

I likewise get very annoyed at cryptic posts here that assume you're watching the exact same thing the poster is watching. Or that you know every single obscure acronym.

Fortunately for the latter, a fast Google search often (not always) solves the problem. Earlier I read a post in which someone wrote that something or another was PITA. I could tell they didn't actually mean as in the bread, and I did find out that it means pain in the ass. But it would be vastly more considerate to actually type out the full thing.

Another issue for me about videos being published, is that I'm rarely willing to spend more than three or four minutes watching one. Especially if there's a lot of talky-talk leading up to the pertinent bit.

but most posters don't bother to.

I get limited bytes. The way I determine if I watch a video is to read a short explanation about it in the OP. No explanation, trash thread. I used to google what the video was about. Not anymore.

Quite a few times a video has been posted with no description of Maddow, a SNL skit or other shows. I record all of them it is a nuisance to start watching a video only to find out it is something I have recorded and can watch without eating up my bytes.

If an OP really can't spend the time to provide a short description, I am not going to waste my time or bytes.

Couldn't that apply to anyone not familiar with the term?

watch the video, even as I kept explaining that I am deaf, so I would not be able to hear it.

All the OP or other posters had to do was tell me what "TBD" meant, but instead they just kept telling me to watch the video!

This sort of thing happens to us deafies all the time, and it gets really, really old.

what we say.

BTW, I just watched the video, but I couldn't get the meaning of TBD from the text graphics, which is what one poster on the other thread said I could do.

So I asked a visiting friend to watch it with me and tell me what the voice over was saying. Guess what--none of it explains what "TBD" means--and that was all I asked in my original response to that OP: What does "TBD" mean?!

Apparently it is a common initialism, but not everyone knows all common initialisms, so when someone says they don't recognize the initialism, it seems that it would not be too much trouble for the other person to simply say what it means, without giving their interlocutor a runaround.

That would solve the problem PDQ*.
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*Pretty damned quick.

But TBD was not immediately clear for me either. Maybe I am a bit old and missed the corporate memo on that one.

As if everybody lived in the same time zone as the blockhead poster. Or, that everybody pays for the same cable TV channels.

All you can do is keep calling out the blockheads that do this. Keep pointing out how annoying, ridiculous, inconvenient, and lazy it is.

Thank you for posting here

to please offer a very brief summary of the main points of videos they posted, just so we deaf people could be included in the conversation.

Every time I did that, I'd get a couple hundred recs and a lot of thank yous--including from those who can hear, but who for one reason or another were not in a position to listen to the sound on the video.

Obviously, then, a lot of people really, really would appreciate a brief summary of the main point of a proffered video. One person complained that he didn't have time to do a detailed, blow-by-blow summary of a 12-minute video, but of course all I had asked for was a brief main point summary--maybe 2 or 3 sentences.

I don't think that is too much to ask for.

build awareness. There are far too many cryptic OPs, maybe they think it's cool shorthand but it feels inconsiderate all the way around. And too much vacuous clickbait.

It's endlessly frustrating.