Been thinking about this after someone posted a video to this community for the first time
Post only images. No gifs, videos or articles.
This is one of the rules stickied to the top of the community. But it’s only there because at the time of creating traditional_art I looked to r/art for guideline inspiration and took it from there without further thought.
It only makes sense to have rules that are voted on by the rest of the community. So what do you guys think? Should users be able to post videos? (and gifs and articles to that extent about art instead of merely being restricted to images?)
I’d rather that video not be a part of this sub. I’d like to not deal with youtube and it’s ad-driven ecosphere. My preference is to cleanly see an image and appreciate that. In my opinion, “traditional” art is not video-based. Others may disagree, but I just wanted to state my thoughts.
Edit: I also want to add that while I don’t particularly care to see video-based art here, I am not so inflexible as to never allow some sort of exceptions in my thinking. Having separate subs for video art (or other art) means smaller and smaller communities as we seek accommodations for all our interests. Instead, perhaps we can have one day of the week where video or other arguably legitimate “traditional” art are seen or discussed (documentaries, etc). In this way we can embrace the art (or discussions about art) that does not fall within the boundaries already set here.
I think it is important to be inclusive with a topic such as this as everyone’s conception of “traditional” art can be as different as the art itself.