Video Is Coming To Reddit (variety.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report from Variety: Videos are coming to Reddit, thanks to a new feature that allows users to upload video clips directly to the service. Reddit rolled out the new video feature Tuesday after testing it with around 200 communities over the past couple of weeks. Reddit users are now able to upload videos of up to 15 minutes in length, with file sizes being limited to 1 gigabyte. Users will be able to upload videos via Reddit's website and its mobile apps for iOS and Android, with the latter offering basic trimming functionality as well. And, in keeping with the spirit of the site, Reddit is also offering a conversion tool to turn videos into animated Gifs. Videos are being displayed persistently, or pinned, meaning that users can scroll through the comments while the video keeps playing in the corner of their screen. And community moderators can opt not to allow videos in their Subreddits at all, with Le arguing that some discussion-heavy Subreddits may decide that the format just doesn't work for them.

Comments

How about fixing the abusive moderation?

[Anonymous Coward]

The lack of video support was never my main problem with Reddit.

The main problem I faced, and I never even posted there, was the rampant and unjustifiable moderation. Even as just a reader it ruined the experience for me, because so much good content would be removed for no good reason.

Except for a very small handful of obscure subreddits, in my opinion most of the major and even minor ones ended up being taken over by extreme leftists who twist and moderate the discussion so it fits their very specific and extremist narrative. Anybody who expresses an opinion that differs from what's deemed to be "acceptable" is quickly attacked and stomped out, I think.

It does make sense that this has happened at Reddit. We've seen something similar happen at sites like Wikipedia and Stack Overflow, too.

I suspect it's mainly because nearly all centrists, conservatives, libertarians and even many on the near-left are too busy doing something productive with their lives. While they might use those sorts of sites for an hour or two in the evenings, they're too preoccupied with other stuff to spend their entire day on those sites. Extreme leftists, on the other hand, typically do not work, and do not do anything productive with their time. So they're able to spend hour upon hour engaging in online politics, which can result in them becoming moderators, which then means that they have hours and hours to harass and delete the content created by reasonable people.

I'd rather see Reddit fix the extreme moderation abuse that goes on there, and instead create an environment that allows for a wide range of views and opinions to be expressed, rather than wasting effort on adding support for videos.

Re:How about fixing the abusive moderation?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lefties and proggies don't believe in free speech or liberalism. They have adopted IngSoc as their platform. Reddit is just an outgrowth of that.

Re:How about fixing the abusive moderation?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, there is a huge different between how leftists approach free expression and how people of other political persuasions do.

Centrists and moderates tend not to care what people express. Since they don't care, or are ambivalent, they have no reason to try to influence what is or isn't expressed.

Those on the political right tend to take free expression very seriously. In the US, these are people who are the strongest defenders of the First Amendment. Freedom is a cornerstone of the political right's system of beliefs. They want everybody to be able to express themselves freely, regardless of what is actually expressed. They are very much against censorship and the moderation of online content.

It's the political left who, as part of their foundational beliefs, wants to exert control over how and what people express. They're the ones forcing the idea of "political correctness". They're the ones who deem certain ideas to be "unacceptable" and thus inexpressible. They're the ones who want to enforce censorship. They're the ones who push for online comments to be deleted, for commenters to be banned, for domains to be deregistered, and for service providers to censor their customers.

The events of the past week should make it clear that it's leftists who go well out of their way to suppress the free expression of everybody else.

Wait until the SJWs undo it all

[eclectro]

How soon before we see a "purge" like what his happening now at Youtube with all conservative content? Censorship is running rampant on Youtube with videos AND comments being deleted outright. And by the way, if you equate conservative content with the Alt-right or Nazis; then go to hell. And the same applies if you deny it happening or justify it.

I'm an adult, and I can decide for myself what to watch or what not to watch. Something that evil-doing Google seems to have lost grasp of. That seems to be all the rage these days, protecting special people from being offended with some censorship here, some more censorship over there and maybe toss in a job firing. Not to mention their attempt at 're-educating' me by throwing videos I don't want to watch in my face.

I truly hope that reddit avoids this mess.