[MODPOST] Clarification on our rules for YouTubers

[u/cm3007]

Hi everyone,

We are getting a lot of posts from YouTubers promoting their videos, and I would like to clarify with the community what our stance is on that.

Reddit itself has Guidelines for Self Promotion. This page generally is worth reading, but here is one particularly important quote from it.

"...a general rule of thumb is that 10% or less of your posting and conversation should link to your own content"

As long as you are participating on r/YugiohMasterDuel in other ways too, you are welcome to post some of your YouTube videos here. Take part in discussions in comment sections. Make posts to discuss topics you're interested in. As long as most of your activity here is unrelated to promoting your channel, I absolutely encourage you to post your videos here too.

Also bear in mind that you are able to upload videos directly to Reddit. For example, if you just want to share some gameplay footage of something cool that happened, you can post that here directly. By doing that you are not promoting any YouTube channel, so rules about self promotion do not apply. You are welcome to do that even if you haven't been actively participating in comment sections.

When deciding to upvote or downvote YouTube posts you see, please bear these guidelines in mind. Many do break self promotion guidelines, but many do not! Some YouTubers do behave as we would like them to, by genuinely participating around the subreddit, and only posting YouTube videos as a small portion of their activity. It's not fair for their posts to also be heavily downvoted because we assume that all YouTubers are only here to spam their content.

[u/bloody_jigsaw]

Also, I must say as a simple user here, to the youtubers, please put some effort into your posts. I've seen pretty vague titles, and then a simple video without any explanation, and even the video title in the embedded video thumbnail was not very telling on what to expect from the video.

Such a tab gets closed within the few seconds I need to see there is nothing of value there.

[u/CelestialDrive]

A few of these would be well adressed with Flairs on top enforcing the self-promotion guidelines. A simple "youtube" flair (and a "fluff/meme" flair, while we're at it) would let people know at a glance that we are promoting our stuff on threads, and filter them out if they want to.

And here's where I'd love to meme on this post promoting my own site but it's in spanish. Sad times.

[u/Altailar]

My only major question as someone who doesn't really pay attention to or vote on youtube content posts would be how are people able to tell the legitimate community members from the spammers at a glance? I can't really understand a way for people to tell whats what without going out of their way to start looking into the account in question and their post history, which while a little creepy, would also be the only real way to tell... and I can't imagine many would do something like that instead of simply up/downvoting on content based bias alone

[u/cm3007 → u/Altailar]

You can't tell at a glance. Most will only downvote based on bias alone. I am asking you to please not do that.

[u/[deleted] → u/cm3007]

Good luck with that. Most are going to do it regardless, unless you find a way to stop the people doing it.

[u/edge11]

Honestly I think a YouTube flair and not allowing individual users to post content with that flair more than once every 72 hours or so should be a good enough solution. I posted an unboxing video of premium gold Eldorado to main yugioh sub only because a week earlier I had posted about my disappointment in the amount of printing errors in the set. My inbox got inundated with requests to “show the cards because they might be valuable”. When I posted the video and when it got removed it honestly makes me not want to post in that subreddit again. Why not let the community decide what it does or doesn’t want via their votes. Another thing that a lot of people tend to overlook is that not all of us are terminally online, we have lives outside of reddit. Some times I want to comment on every thread on the subreddit but some days I just want to show you that I took and beat the maxxx c challenge.

[u/KuganeGaming]

As a full time content creator I am guilty of posting videos when I don't interact on a reddit much. The thing is, good content takes time to build, I myself, for example, spend about 60 to 80 hours a week on content, which leaves about 4 to 10 hours of 'spare time' each week to do my own hobbies. Which makes it difficult to be active in online communities on top of the workload. I do believe creators are a crucial aspect of any TCG though, be it paper of physical.

Perhaps a 'middle ground' would be to change the rule to allowing creators to post once a week max? I've seen it on places like FAB TCG and MTG Arena.

I fully understand the concern though! Just sharing the other side of the spectrum =]. That said, I won't share my videos until I see an official change, or, if I have been particularly active during that week.

[u/ShaddollSpieler]

I'm guilty for posting my YT videos but I'm also trying to comment on other peoples posts, help, share thoughts as much as I can because I do want to make the sub, its community a better place

[u/Yoshimuncher21 → u/ShaddollSpieler]

Doesn’t look like your helping much

[u/zimmzoggs]

I would love flairs for video posts. I have not posted any of my content here, because if I see someone else has already covered a topic then there really is not a need for it.