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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Flutter@lemmy.world to c/videos@lemmy.world

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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 1 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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