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Screenshot of what users are seeing when they go to post a video:
https://i.redd.it/t6k9jl2ra9n81.jpeg
I have Post Guidelines configured to tell users where to host videos/GIFs, but the guideline text doesn't seem to be showing up at all. Worse, the app is explicitly telling our users they should pick another community to post in. A while back, we seemed to have a steep drop-off in new posts, and I now suspect this quite possibly is the reason why.
Not Allowed In This Community
Pick another community to post this type of content.
Can someone explain what the heck is going on here? Why is Reddit telling our posters to go elsewhere?
I am aware Reddit doesn't allow video uploads in NSFW community, but to go as far as to tell them to post elsewhere instead is quite absurd. And why is our guidelines text explaining this not showing up?
Can you also confirm that this will be fixed so our post guidelines will also appear? Most of our posts are videos (or at least, they used to be before this happened), so we obviously need some means of telling people how to actually post them.
What I'm asking is, how can we tell users that? The message doesn't say to upload off-site, it says to go "pick another community". This message isn't customizable, and posting guidelines are not supported on the app at all.
As I said above, media posts are enabled in our settings, but Reddit does not allow media uploads regardless of this setting if a community is NSFW. So Reddit is telling our users to go somewhere else, over something we've got no control over; and users who do go elsewhere would find every other NSFW community displaying the same message.
Our Posting Guidelines briefly explain this and tell users where to host videos to post as a Link Post; but these guidelines are not shown here either, even though they clearly should be!
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Oddly, there is already even a setting for exactly this:
I'd always thought the text in this box was supposed to be shown on the create-post screen; but it seems that's not the case after all.
Indeed, your concern is something we have already seen; some users do end up posting their NSFW videos to communities that are not properly tagged as NSFW (even worse, these are often ones created by scammers) instead. So this essentially further punishes the NSFW communities that do follow the rules.