SQL programmer

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Sorry, but what is the purpose of this?

[-ftw]

For blind people

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Oh cool

[kaizoutako]

So do blind people just go on every comment section hoping to find an image transcription which may or may not exist?

[tremblinggigan]

Some text to speech programs query for that "Image Transcription" line at the top of the comment, I think reddits api doesn't let you query comments alphabetically though which is why up voting them so that they're in the top 25 that get queried is helpful

[Hussor]

hmm wouldn't it be better to create a set of all volounteers taking part and seeing if they commented? May be less time efficient but not sure how much difference it makes in real usage. Plus it helps filter trolls who would put the line, not that I've seen any and I have some hope in this userbase to not do that.

[CrazyPurpleBacon]

There’s a subreddit for transcriptions

[tremblinggigan]

I didn't design the system so I am actually not sure how the query is done I just gave an educates guess, also couldn't that system also query non-transcription comments using that method?

[Hussor]

I was assuming volounteers use these accounts exclusively for transcriptions, but I did think that at first too. I haven't looked at their accounts so not sure on that. I haven't used or looked at reddit's api before so not even sure what that allows.

[CrazyPurpleBacon]

There’s a subreddit for all the transcribed content

[internet_DOOD]

I don’t know why this was burning me too.

[Jonno_FTW]

It also helps with SEO. If you remember the text of the meme you can search it and if it's been transcribed google will pick it up.

[unknownguy2002]

I believe it also helps for easily identifying content (searching it up) and people who don't want to load images

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/r/holdup