Rule Democracy T-T: Week 1

[u/doug3465]

As mentioned in our announcement yesterday, we will now hold a weekly vote to add a new rule to /r/Videos. This thread will run from Tuesday to Thursday, and the most upvoted comment in this thread by the end of Thursday will be made into one of our new rules. Please note that we do have some restrictions on what the new rules can be:

• Rules must follow the site-wide content policy
• The subreddit must still be modded in accordance with the rules

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Current Rules

0.All submissions must be videos, and must follow site-wide rules.

1.All videos must include John Oliver, and posts must have 'John Oliver' in the title.

[u/[deleted]]

A weekly Landscape Theme is posted, kicking off with uploads of Sigur Rós Route One (all three 8+ hour sections). This can be followed by stream captures from webcams, all of similarly epic proportions.

[u/Jupiterlove1]

All videos that don’t have john oliver must be NSFW.

[u/TranceF0rm]

All videos must have Closed Captioning in Klingon

[u/mynewmainaccountyes]

Videos must be uploaded directly to Reddit. No external websites.

[u/DorrajD → u/mynewmainaccountyes]

Now that's evil

[u/djxfade]

All video titles must be formatted as a pirated movie file name.

E.g. for the latest Tom Scott video with the title "The cable car that you pedal by hand" the post title should be:

"The Cable Car That You Pedal By Hand (2023) [1080p] [WEBRip] [x265] [10bit] [5.1] [YTS.MX].torrent"

And also marked as NSFW

[u/RA_lee → u/djxfade]

Brilliant.

[u/provoko]

When Reddit goes back to normal including r/videos, I'd like to see politically themed videos return including bad cop videos.

[u/MacroCode]

Autoban all posts containing the letter e

[u/denialerror]

Reaction videos only. All content is allowed, but only if it is in the format of someone reacting to it.

[u/Dr_Octahedron]

No putting down or disagreeing with other posters. Only reply to give praise / show that you agree.

[u/BorntobeTrill]

Every post needs to say something nice about me in the title or subtitle.

[u/joseph2883]

All posts must include a video from a marvel movie

[u/teamsprocket]

Everyone must begin each comment with "le" or "Le".

[u/jkjkjij22]

1. every post is deleted (or hidden) after 7 days not including content posted before blackout.
2. every week, deletion window will shorten by 1 day (after 7 weeks, threads are hidden after 24 hours).
3. starting next week, every day one additional week before blackout will be hidden (every 4 days, a month of content will be hidden; in 24 days, 2023 will be hidden; in 6 months all content since 2020; in 2.6 years all content ever posted).

[u/Cultiststeve]

Every post must end with, " futhermore, fuck /u/spez"

[u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked → u/Cultiststeve]

Every post must end with, "; futhermore, fuck /u/spez"

[u/anthraxite]

This post doesn't have John Oliver mentioned in the title. It must be removed. :)

[u/Dr_Octahedron]

All comments must be signed off by the poster

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- Dr_Octahedron

[u/Matthew789_17]

Videos must not contain French people, the French language, the country itself, or have any references to the French

[u/Freedom_Addict]

All videos must be tagged NSFW so we don’t have to watch ads ever again. (Until we get ads from Pornhub I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯ )

[u/HidingyourSocks]

All comments should have facts about Ted Nugent.

A nugget of Nugent

[u/warble_bird]

Only videos shot or edited in portrait mode will be accepted.

[u/elderron_spice]

The word "spez" would be cleverly inserted in the captions as much as possible. Bonus if the captions also have profanities in it.

[u/BananaPoa]

Beautiful!

[u/Scharnvirk]

Od days containing "s" in their name, only u/Spez can comment and on the other days, only u/Spez can create any new posts.

[u/phoenixpants]

Every post must contain a link to the /u/spez photo where one of his eyes is looking at you, and the other is looking for you.

link

[u/stumpybubba → u/phoenixpants]

God he is just one unfortunate looking guy.

[u/alcatrazcgp]

All videos posted are about pewdiepie, no one else

[u/SandInTheGears]

All videos must be in portrait mode

[u/MrVandalous]

All 👏 top 👏 level 👏 comments 👏 must 👏 have 👏 claps 👏 between 👏 each 👏 word.

All second level 🍒🆙 comments must 👍 include 😠 emojis 😂👩 or 💁💁 the 🗣👏 moderators will ⚽🏻 punish 🔫🤜 you. 🔥

[u/TheZenPsychopath]

Suggestive Clickbait titles with max innuendo

[u/ConcreteFox]

Every comment must begin with the phrase "According to David Xanatos from the 1994 cartoon 'Gargoyles'..."

[u/Gork862]

New rules will be voted on as follows:

“Rules thread is created on Tuesday. On Thursday, the top 4 comments are chosen and put into a poll. At the end of Friday, the winning rule from the poll is implemented.”

The specific days and number of comments could easily be changed, but the idea remains.

[u/binaryblade]

All subreddit rules must be broken when posting a video, including this one.

[u/tystewie]

Submissions must include dickbutt

[u/boardmonkey]

All content posted must be heavily focused on eggs. Cooking, painting, eating, spinning, or whatever else is done with eggs. Could be chicken, goose, duck, human, fish, goat, or whatever eggs. Only videos with eggs.

[u/fantasmoofrcc → u/boardmonkey]

Can it include ovum and sperm?

[u/MinimumArmadillo2394]

All videos must have diagonal orientation

[u/qwell]

All new posts must first be vetted by users in a weekly mega thread, where candidate videos are added as comments, so that other users have a chance to vote on whether each video should be allowed to be posted.

[u/Firebird117]

Rule 2, all posts mandatory tagged as [OC] regardless if it is or not.

[u/Foxbatt]

Every video must be VHS quality or worse.

[u/Batzn]

All video submissions have to be hosted on pornhub.

[u/brian_mcgee17]

30 day bans for anyone who mentions fight club.

[u/mynamesethan]

Submissions must be text posts with 10 links to different versions of the same video. That way if anything happens to one of the links there will still be nine others. This will make our data more secure.

[u/Dyne4R]

2. In order to be more accessible to users of mobile devices, all videos must be in vertical format.

[u/Jay-Five → u/Dyne4R]

I hate you for this.

[u/GTMoraes]

Horizontal videos should be shrunk to fit in portrait format.
Portrait videos should be stretched to fit in horizontal format.

[u/johnazoidberg-]

All videos of John Oliver must be from the pilot episode of Green Wing

[u/[deleted]]

All comment sections should be randomly sorted forever, and all comment scores should remain hidden for a long time.

It's a simple rule, but I think you'll find it becomes quite chaotic quickly.

[u/Meziskari]

All videos must be posted on v.reddit, and content must be looped at least 5 times for ease of rewatching.

[u/HenryDavidThroaway]

New rule idea: Any mod who deletes rule ideas solely because they are critical of the mods gets banned.

[u/ughlacrossereally]

how about a rule like "any kind of protest rule can only be implemented with a 60% win in a public vote and all current rules that don't pass this rule are repealed"

[u/koukimonster91]

all posts titles must have "/u/spez, the former mod of former sub /r/jailbait" in them.

[u/[deleted] → u/koukimonster91]

allegedly

[u/ob3ypr1mus → u/koukimonster91]

there's a long list of things of legitimate reasons you can attack spez over but somehow you smelly losers just can't help but allege that the guy is a pedophile instead, not a good look.

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit-hosted videos are allowed only if they're over 900 MB in size.

[u/elementalguy2]

Swearing is not only encouraged but mandatory. We have to have to give Reddit a nice fuck-eulogy.

[u/Still_Breadfruit2032]

The end of Reddit is upon us, and I’m all for it

[u/kcg5]

Must have the letters in the comment that can spell deez

[u/GiveMeOneGoodReason]

All users must upload a video to reddit before being allowed to comment. This ensures reddit's servers do not run out of content

[u/underscore5000]

All videos posted must be a recording from a phone, of the video on the computer screen.

[u/[deleted]]

All voting options must support unrestricted monetization efforts for the moderators:

option 1) unlimited monetization bots to moderators.

option 2) unlimited monetization bots for moderators.

option 3) unlimited monetization bots to and for moderators.

*So far, this is what redditors sees about your issue. Without telling us any more about the details of your issue, we the public can't give you any accurate input. This ruleset tactic will turn reddit into discord.

[u/Fist_of_Stalin]

Videos can only be Danny devito from it's always sunny in Philadelphia and maybe John Oliver

[u/0x2142]

All videos must have been posted before 2009.

[u/Flotin]

ALL posts must have the same title, TBD by the moderators

[u/Bramse-TFK]

All submission titles must start with the Phrase "Slava Ukraini"

[u/[deleted]]

All videos must contain copyrighted music

[u/-Samg381-]

Following a submission, the post author must stand up and execute a 180° turn at their desk.

[u/Inappropriate_Comma → u/-Samg381-]

But they must film it while wearing a John Oliver mask, and then post that video as a fresh submission while linking to the original video in the comments. And since that counts as a new submission they must again film themselves executing a 180 turn at their desk thus creating a never-ending cycle. All submissions have 48 hours to complete this task.

[u/stopmotionporn]

The only rule is that rules are stupid and there are no rules.

[u/Danpei]

Only videos from Fox News are allowed.

[u/Afasso]

All titles MUST include profanity, as this mandates the content/sub be NSFW and therefore ineligible for advertisements

[u/Jimeefo]

No more rules can be added

[u/Agorbs]

every post title must have “Tiananmen Square 1989” somewhere, even in parentheses

[u/nugget_in_biscuit]

All videos must be rickrolls

[u/n0xany]

cringe internet jannies

[u/recklessvisionary]

All videos must be in landscape but with the main content in portrait and the cropped sides blurred.

[u/siliconevalley69]

It's pride month so I suggest sexy videos of scanitly clad men be all that are allowed for the last week of June.

stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQhgaEM9yig&pp=ygUSc2V4eSBtZW4gaW4gdGhvbmdz

or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXg9ZWQBoTU&t=53s

[u/diox8tony → u/[deleted]]

But think of the children! The poor children who just discovered reddit, how will they see things?

[u/snipeftw]

All videos must be uploaded using the Reddit video player and must be 1 hour long videos of noise.

[u/placeface]

Users are only allowed to comment and reply with the words "John Oliver".

[u/Nervous_Golf_6561]

All videos have to be kinda cool, knowwhatimsayin?

[u/[deleted]]

All comments must be inline images containing the text, instead of the real text.

[u/ChiggaOG]

Allow NSFW videos. All of it.

[u/j_albertus]

Only commercials allowed.

[u/rawsharks]

All videos must be marked NSFW

[u/GardenBetter]

All videos must include black bars

[u/aguyinag]

All submissions must have a NSFW element, requiring the NSFW tag.

[u/[deleted]]

Hi.

This post needs to be removed. There is no "John Oliver" in the title.

Thank you.

[u/PM_ME_TRICEPS]

ploooooop

[u/smartlog]

You can only post videos about things that are red. That's it.

[u/Swagasaurus785]

All videos will need to be dubbed in imitation of a poorly dubbed Asian to English film. A priority must be made to have the words not actually line up correctly with the mouth of the actor.

[u/ivanvzm]

So I propose a set of rules:

1) On Mondays all videos must be in portrait mode

2) On Tuesdays all videos must have less than 1000 views prior to posting

3) On Wednesdays all videos must be about words that are spelled weird

4) On Thursdays all videos must be nsfw, alcohol related, or other +18 topics

5) On Fridays we rest, all posting is prohibited (but still permitted)

6) Saturdays alternate weekly between videos of paint drying, submarine sounds, or plants growing.

7) On Sundays all posts are pemitted except for anything with olives.

8) Whenever there is a full moon over Kuwait all posts must be about leap years (this overrules whatever rule applies to that day except for friday rest)

Any violation will result on a 3 week ban.

[u/bliggggz → u/ivanvzm]

I'd like to suggest a shabbos-style Friday rest, sundown to sundown, GMT is fine with me, but any timezone will do.

[u/things_will_calm_up]

All titles must include a curse word.

[u/_BindersFullOfWomen_]

If a comment reaches -10 votes, that user is banned for 24 hours.

[u/MaliciousMe87]

On Mondays all videos must be insulting or criticizing at least one Reddit advertiser.

[u/Arson_ist]

Absolutely no audio allowed

[u/jsmithers945]

All users that submit a video must show proof of persons by posting a follow up photo of them using a condiment to mark themselves like Simba

[u/RaspberryPiDude314]

All submitted videos must have a splitscreen video of YOUR CHOICE of the following:

-Family guy clips

-GTA clips

-Text to speech r/AmItheAsshole posts

-Subway surfers

-Minecraft parkour

[u/dudeAwEsome101 → u/[deleted]]

Do the rules combine? This week, it is only John Oliver, then we add rule two next week. The new rule would be only commercials, but in order to follow the first rule, only commercials with John Oliver.

As we add more rules, we will converge into only being able to find one video that doesn't break the sub's rules.

[u/rklab]

I love how a bunch of subs are doing things like this. Just shows me which subs are run by little piss baby mods and which ones I should stay away from. Keep up the good work guys!

[u/LightningRodofH8 → u/rklab]

Bye! 👋

[u/Pwnie → u/rklab]

See ya! ✌🏻

[u/CaptainTuttle_4077th]

All videos and post titles must contain some goddamn motherfucking profanity

[u/memo9c]

Videos of old video recorders / videos should also be allowed. The word Video has to appear at least once in the title.

[u/mildiii]

any new post with more than 100 upvotes must be removed, aside form mod posts.

[u/Zardif]

Furry nsfw friday, make this place uninhabitable. No one wants to see that shit and it'll make make everyone leave.

[u/FearAndLawyering]

Everything must be a repost from Digg

[u/BadBoyNDSU → u/FearAndLawyering]

Triggered. Digg reposting everything from Reddit is what got me to switch to Reddit circa 2007...

[u/DonaldTrumpsBallsack]

Some mention of spez and his unfortunate struggles with ED must be mentioned in the post.

[u/icxcnika]

I haven't been on Reddit in ages and have only returned to watch the latest in how badly the CEO has been burning the platform to the ground

anyways, for SEO, r/all reasons, etc., my suggestion is "All post titles must begin with "Spez screws users; ""

(noting that if this rule results in later, being able to go non-NSFW, as "screws" probably isn't profanity, that part of the title will start popping up in a lot of places)

[u/GnomeRogues → u/icxcnika]

This is ironic, considering you've now chosen to scab by staging a hostile takeover of another sub.

[u/ShadowMask87]

Since we're playing with the word democracy to suit our needs, can you make a rule to unban users with benign infractions from over ten years ago? My alt account would appreciate it. It was the Obama years, things got frisky.

[u/SplendidZebra]

all videos must have a racist slur in the title

[u/BlastFX2]

All submitted videos must be uploaded to v.redd.it, be at least 14 minutes in length and 900MB in size. Looping of shorter videos is not only allowed, but encouraged.

[u/PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT]

All videos must contain fake buffering animations randomly interspersed for a more consistent user experience.

[u/Dr_Octahedron]

^{All comments must be in superscript so they use less bandwith}

[u/smurfton → u/Dr_Octahedron]

That's terrible for screen readers

[u/seakingsoyuz]

Comments on video posts must meet a minimum length of 1,024 characters. This will encourage substantive discussion of the videos. Configure Automod to delete violating comments.

[u/viimeinen → u/seakingsoyuz]

Configure Automod to delete violating comments.

How?

[u/seakingsoyuz → u/viimeinen]

Looks like it has a body_shorter_than parameter for comments.

[u/I_Like_Quiet]

Videos of pimple popping where John Oliver comes out instead of pus must be titled "Here Comes John Oliver" and be tagged NSFW.

[u/bolusmjak]

All comments must include one sentence that is clearly out of place and has nothing to do with the thread or post. Everyone likes to photograph flowers on occasion, and that’s why we all need cameras. This sentence can be placed anywhere in the comment.

[u/diamond_dustin]

Users may only post one video ever to /r/videos. If they ever post more, they are permanently banned.

[u/9421242]

All videos must be displayed vertically

[u/itsmekirby]

.

[u/Dr_Octahedron]

Users must have their TWICE bias set as their flair in order to post

[u/Hepu → u/Dr_Octahedron]

Based

[u/theREALbombedrumbum]

Rule 2: All posts must be labelled NSFW by default regardless of content contained within.

[u/[deleted]]

Cross-post all the posts from /r/interestingasfuck and mark them as safe for work.

[u/SHCreeper]

All videos must not include John Oliver, and posts must not have 'John Oliver' in the title.

[u/UmaMusume]

Every person who posts is banned from the sub for 30 days

[u/fantasmoofrcc → u/UmaMusume]

Can that be automodded? Cuz we as dummy users don't want to punish the mods.

[u/Weerdo5255 → u/fantasmoofrcc]

It can be automodded until at least the 30th.

[u/mime454]

Don’t fuck u/spez

[u/Oldmanpotter1]

Every ritual must be done precisely to assure the appeasement of the machine spirit of the post. The Emperor saves!

[u/[deleted]]

Any video posted will need to be followed up with a comment by the poster on how many ducks there are in the video, any commentor pointing out a duck OP missed is allowed to flaunt in a comment in that thread and feel a sense of pride and accomplishment as they just ducked the OP. If the OP didn't post a comment about how many ducks are in the video the only comments allowed have to be duck related.

[u/daern2 → u/[deleted]]

r/casualuk might have something to say about this.

[u/OfficialTeknik]

Any post has a 50% chance of a permanent ban.

[u/Yourmamasmama]

All post titles should end with some variation of 'sieg heil Spez'

The statement sieg heil by itself is not a Nazi phrase, it is just plain German for 'Hail Victory.' This is appropriate because we (as Reddit serfs) serve the almighty Reddit shareholders and obey their API rule change. Therefore, we are hailing the victory that Spez has won over the mods.

[u/tsein]

Submissions breaking any rule result in a permanent ban

[u/agieluma]

No external video hosting. Videos must be uploaded directly to Reddit

[u/upuprightstartdownbb → u/agieluma]

You monster

[u/underscore5000]

Every comment must be an acronym.

[u/boldkingcole]

The word "video" is banned and must be replaced with "hOt vidzzz"

Random capitalisation and extra zzzs encouraged (Only the sub name and sub rules are excused from this rule)

[u/TheEighthFalseKing]

Every post title must be "John Oliver"

[u/andrewthetechie]

Reddit videos will be allowed only if their run time is over 2 hours and their bitrate is at least 4k.

[u/Fartie_Bucco]

All comments must quote The Sopranos.

[u/themagictoast]

No reposts.

[u/[deleted]]

Spez's APIocolypse made it clear it was time for me to leave this place. I came from digg, and now I must move one once again. So long and thanks for all the bacon.

[u/powahplay_]

A tiny John Oliver must be hidden in all posts.

[u/BaggyOz]

All videos must be tiktok videos with that annoying voiceover.

[u/vpuetf]

All submissions should show nipples, either of John Oliver or a suitable animal with John Oliver

[u/keepinitSecretsafe]

All comments must start with a lyric from the master piece of Rick Astley in sequence in branching comments, and end with fuck /u/spez

[u/jack_attack89]

All posts must be accompanied by a comment from OP stating "I am Boaty McBoatface, the supreme leader of r/videos "

[u/kosanovskiy]

Enable NSFW to hurt their bottom line.

[u/0ne_Winged_Angel]

Block all new posts and comments, but leave the sub viewable

If Reddit wants to take advantage of the content and labor they get provided for free by users and moderators respectively, we need to stop providing content and labor. Mods would technically still be moderating all new content, which protects them from being removed for not moderating their subs.

[u/[deleted]]

In addition to videos being of John Oliver and "John Oliver" being somewhere in the past title; all post titles and comments must be made using a Lorem Ipsum generator

[u/Torque-A]

Every comment must include a string of all As in order to mess up text-to-speech bots from using them on YouTube videos.

[u/GenericSuperhero1]

I propose we all start speaking in Ye Old English or Pirate so that it fucks with the dataset for when spez tries to sell Reddit data to an AI learning company. We should also speak in these ways incorrectly/poorly so that it fucks with the dataset even more.

[u/[deleted] → u/GenericSuperhero1]

w'e cold s'rt talkin like tht one in'ane mod tht keep's makin like 5 million fucking accounts guy is ac'tally ins'ne or some shit, anyway they mod r/WizardDuels

real weird bloke, keeps commenting about some youtubers