Hi All,
As you know, r/videos is and always has been a politics-free and politician-free zone, and we don’t intend to change that any time soon. However, we’ve noticed a pattern recently, lots of videos featuring Elon Musk are getting reported by people for R2.
Now it’s true, that Elmo has gone all political, helped elect Trump, and is about to become a special advisor, which is maybe a politician under a broad definition of the word. But he also has lots of outside interests which you all like to post about from time to time, such as SpaceX, and being a twat. We wouldn’t want to deprive you of the right to post videos of funny rocket crashes and or him embarrassing himself by trying to Livestream video games.
We also don’t want to block videos critical of X or Tesla cars, just because of who the CEO is.
This has occasionally been an issue before with others too, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s motivational videos when he was still within our 10 year window of being an active politician as the ex-governor of California.
So we’re proposing a small modification of Rule 2.
The existing wording is as follows:
(1) The video features or involves an active politician in any country.
(a) ‘Active’ is defined as a politician who has been active in a government position or party political position in the last 10 years.
(b) Videos where an active politician is played by another person also count under this section.
The new wording we propose is as follows:
(1) The video features or involves an active politician in any country. We define ‘active politician’ as:
(a) a person who has been elected/appointed to any level of government in the last 10 years, or a cabinet member or other officer or advisor in a government’s executive or judicial branch who held office in the last 10 years.
(b) a person whose main job is in or related to a political party or a political action group that exists to get a particular person or group elected.
(c) we will make an exception if a person has other significant interests of note (for example, business or charity) and the video is only about those other interests and does not include political content. Examples would be a video about a SpaceX launch that includes Elon Musk, or a motivational message from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
> (d) Videos where an active politician is played by another person also count under this section.
We think it’ll be fairly painless. I’m sure comments sections under such videos will include political discussions, but we’ve never enforced R2 for comments, so nothing really changes there.
Your feedback is welcome on the above, or you can just insult us. Your choice!
Many Thanks,
The Mods.
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r/videos Hi All, As you know, r/videos is and always has been a politics-free and politician-free zone, and we don’t intend to change that any time soon. However, we’ve noticed a pattern recently, lots of videos featuring Elon Musk are getting reported by people for R2. Now it’s true, that Elmo has gone all political, helped elect Trump, and is about to become a special advisor, which is maybe a politician under a broad definition of the word. But he also has lots of outside interests which you all like to post about from time to time, such as SpaceX, and being a twat. We wouldn’t want to deprive you of the right to post videos of funny rocket crashes and or him embarrassing himself by trying to Livestream video games. We also don’t want to block videos critical of X or Tesla cars, just because of who the CEO is. This has occasionally been an issue before with others too, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s motivational videos when he was still within our 10 year window of being an active politician as the ex-governor of California. So we’re proposing a small modification of Rule 2. The existing wording is as follows: (1) The video features or involves an active politician in any country. (a) ‘Active’ is defined as a politician who has been active in a government position or party political position in the last 10 years. (b) Videos where an active politician is played by another person also count under this section. The new wording we propose is as follows: (1) The video features or involves an active politician in any country. We define ‘active politician’ as: (a) a person who has been elected/appointed to any level of government in the last 10 years, or a cabinet member or other officer or advisor in a government’s executive or judicial branch who held office in the last 10 years. (b) a person whose main job is in or related to a political party or a political action group that exists to get a particular person or group elected. (c) we will make an exception if a person has other significant interests of note (for example, business or charity) and the video is only about those other interests and does not include political content. Examples would be a video about a SpaceX launch that includes Elon Musk, or a motivational message from Arnold Schwarzenegger. > (d) Videos where an active politician is played by another person also count under this section. We think it’ll be fairly painless. I’m sure comments sections under such videos will include political discussions, but we’ve never enforced R2 for comments, so nothing really changes there. Your feedback is welcome on the above, or you can just insult us. Your choice! Many Thanks, The Mods. submitted by /u/ianjm [link] [comments]
Hi All,
As you know, r/videos is and always has been a politics-free and politician-free zone, and we don’t intend to change that any time soon. However, we’ve noticed a pattern recently, lots of videos featuring Elon Musk are getting reported by people for R2.
Now it’s true, that Elmo has gone all political, helped elect Trump, and is about to become a special advisor, which is maybe a politician under a broad definition of the word. But he also has lots of outside interests which you all like to post about from time to time, such as SpaceX, and being a twat. We wouldn’t want to deprive you of the right to post videos of funny rocket crashes and or him embarrassing himself by trying to Livestream video games.
We also don’t want to block videos critical of X or Tesla cars, just because of who the CEO is.
This has occasionally been an issue before with others too, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s motivational videos when he was still within our 10 year window of being an active politician as the ex-governor of California.
So we’re proposing a small modification of Rule 2.
The existing wording is as follows:
(1) The video features or involves an active politician in any country.
(a) ‘Active’ is defined as a politician who has been active in a government position or party political position in the last 10 years.
(b) Videos where an active politician is played by another person also count under this section.
The new wording we propose is as follows:
(1) The video features or involves an active politician in any country. We define ‘active politician’ as:
(a) a person who has been elected/appointed to any level of government in the last 10 years, or a cabinet member or other officer or advisor in a government’s executive or judicial branch who held office in the last 10 years.
(b) a person whose main job is in or related to a political party or a political action group that exists to get a particular person or group elected.
(c) we will make an exception if a person has other significant interests of note (for example, business or charity) and the video is only about those other interests and does not include political content. Examples would be a video about a SpaceX launch that includes Elon Musk, or a motivational message from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
> (d) Videos where an active politician is played by another person also count under this section.
We think it’ll be fairly painless. I’m sure comments sections under such videos will include political discussions, but we’ve never enforced R2 for comments, so nothing really changes there.
Your feedback is welcome on the above, or you can just insult us. Your choice!
Many Thanks,
The Mods.
submitted by /u/ianjm
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