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[META] Community discussion

[META] Community discussion - Lemmy.world

Do you have any suggestions about the state of the !videos community or thoughts you’d like to share? Rules you wish should be implemented, or just a request for the kind of content you’d like to see be posted here? Comment below! And if you have any similar communities you’d like be featured in the sidebar let me know and I’ll add them!

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Althea Jun 21, 2023

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.

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danc4498 Jun 30, 2023

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.

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Althea

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.