About a year ago this community mentioned to the mods that, unlike with Reddit’s r/videos, community, they wanted to allow political videos.
A lot has changed in the world over the past 12 months, and political videos generate a big chunk of reports, so we wanted to check in with everyone here about political content.
Do you still want to see politics here, or should we limit that content to a separate political videos community like c/memes does? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
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Update:
Looks like most of you would prefer us to separate the content. We’ll start to work to update the rules!
User Opinions:
ptz@dubvee.org: Against keeping (13 votes) tacosanonymous@lemm.ee: Against keeping (8 votes) Peter1986C@lemmings.world: Against keeping (3 votes) unreachable@lemmy.world: Indifferent (9 votes) realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club: Against keeping (1 vote)
Total Votes:
Against keeping: 25 Indifferent: 9 In favour of keeping: 0
There’s a near infinite number of awesome videos that can be shared. I think we can do without the talking heads political commentary and related geopolitics stuff.
i personally feel indifferent, but i wish lemmy had reddit “flair” feature, so we can easily filter what’s what.
You gotta keep’em separated.
Looks like most of you would prefer us to separate the content. We’ll start to work to update the rules!
User Opinions:
- ptz@dubvee.org: Against keeping (13 votes)
- tacosanonymous@lemm.ee: Against keeping (8 votes)
- Peter1986C@lemmings.world: Against keeping (3 votes)
- unreachable@lemmy.world: Indifferent (9 votes)
- realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club: Against keeping (1 vote)
Total Votes:
- Against keeping: 25
- Indifferent: 9
- In favour of keeping: 0
There’s already so little content on Lemmy, I’m not sure that was really necessary.
What about political satire, will that still be allowed?
I know that I’m late to the poll, but I’m glad that there will be a different place for political videos. I don’t always want to be exposed to them.
I’m also waaaay late but posting for those that might be interested. https://lemmy.ml/c/videos seems to be predominantly political type videos (warning: I dont watch them, they could be balanced/propaganda/rage bait/conspiratorial).
PS I’d also have voted to keep them separate.
The downside of allowing them is that the community may get flooded with USpol posts that are as of now hard to filter on Lemmy. So I vote to keep them out. However, to stop getting all those reports on what right now are considered unwritten rule violations (at least by some of the community) I strongly suggest to make more explicit rule on this in the sidebar.
Where’s the line of political and non-political videos?
We’ve yet to define that. That said, the big reason for the move is because of community complaints around content regarding elections, political candidates, systems of government, foreign policy, etc.
