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[META] Community discussion (self.videos)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Flutter to c/videos

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[–] althea_vestrid 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Personally I'd prefer to see politics videos allowed. Back in the early days of reddit, r/videos was full of politics videos with lots of engagement. Finally they sent all that to the r/politicalvideo ghetto to die. I always thought that was too bad.

[–] danc4498 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What was the reason given for removing politics? I think it's worth a try, but I bet the engagement quickly becomes too toxic to be worth it.

[–] althea_vestrid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This thread explains the rationale: https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3sure8/introducing_rpoliticalvideo/

The end result of this was that all videos that had even a slight connection to politics were removed, and the politicalvideo subreddit never took off.

[–] danc4498 2 points 1 year ago

This makes sense... Allowing political videos invites people with agendas to abuse the ranking system to push that agenda. It could overshadow the promise of a community for cool videos on the internet.

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