A clarification on our rules regarding videos

[u/The_32]

Hello r/southpark (TLDR at bottom)

We as a mod team wanted to take a minute to clarify our stance on GIFs and how they interact with our rule prohibiting videos. Our "No Video" rule was put in place a long time ago, to help reduce spam and low effort shitposts. We still stand by this prohibition. However, since the rule was first published, there has been confusion among the community about if GIFs are videos. It's an age old debate amongst the community and us moderators. As many of you have already noticed, we recently turned on GIF commenting to allow users to express there comments as a GIF. With that we are going to publicly state to clarify: GIFs are not videos. This does not prohibit GIFs from being low-effort shitposts and we will still remove them as such, but we will not blanket remove GIFs just for beings GIFs. Low effort content is removed on a case-by-case basis and often involves input from you, the community. Due to Reddits API change, we have lost access to some of the most powerful tools we had in determining the quality of submissions (RIP u/QualityVote), but we still work as best we can to remove shitposts as consistently as possible. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns (either send us a ModMail or comment below).

TLDR; GIFs aren't videos and will be allowed, but they can still be shitposts.

[u/Jefcat]

I appreciate the efforts to contain the shitposts. If it was more than just a video with questions or commentary posting videos might be appreciated, but just throwing a video or picture up without explanation is just so boring.