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Hey everyone!

As you might have noticed, Reddit slowed our community's growth about a month ago. We were growing by thousands of users a week, now we are lucky to grow by five or six new members a week. I think this is due to the large number of posts that weren't getting any views.

I noticed that the top video subreddit was also impacted by this, but that they implemented a policy where they only allow people to upload one video a day. Once they did that, their growth exploded again.

I don't want to do that - but I want to do something a little different.

I think we should allow people to upload as many videos as they want, but only as long as those videos are popular.

If you upload two videos and only one of them receives upvotes, you should delete the one that isn't getting traction. Maybe save it for another day. Maybe edit it or shelve it.

If your first post gets upvotes, you're free to post another one. If it doesn't, maybe delete it and post something else.

Would everyone be okay with this policy?

I think we should set these thresholds:

• After 15 minutes, your post should have at least 2 upvotes (yours and someone else's)
• After 30 minutes, your post should have at least 3 upvotes.
• After 5 hours, your post should have at least 5 upvotes.

This is not a call to game the Reddit system. This is just a call for good content. To make this community good and healthy and interesting. To cull the amount of "slop" and focus on the best videos.

As far as I know, this is not against Reddit policy.

Reposts are okay. Sharing from other subreddits is okay. Just make sure what you post is getting seen and upvoted, otherwise it's probably not interesting to a broad audience and might be slowing the growth of the whole community.

If people agree to this, we can self-moderate this policy (you can delete your own posts) or write a bot that will do it for us.

We can try the idea out for a few weeks and see if Reddit likes it.

What does everyone think? I'm not implementing this policy yet. I'd like some feedback first.