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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years 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.