this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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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:

[email protected]: Against keeping (13 votes) [email protected]: Against keeping (8 votes) [email protected]: Against keeping (3 votes) [email protected]: Indifferent (9 votes) [email protected]: Against keeping (1 vote)

Total Votes:

Against keeping: 25 Indifferent: 9 In favour of keeping: 0

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

i personally feel indifferent, but i wish lemmy had reddit "flair" feature, so we can easily filter what's what.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

You gotta keep'em separated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like most of you would prefer us to separate the content. We’ll start to work to update the rules!

User Opinions:

Total Votes:

  • Against keeping: 25
  • Indifferent: 9
  • In favour of keeping: 0
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where's the line of political and non-political videos?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Keep em out. I am trying to avoid most political Lemmy communities since they tend to skew so far left.

That said, I think y'all need a place to share political videos, IIRC most politics communities on Lemmy don't allow for that. Maybe a political videos community is in order.