In response to this "React" situation and the /r/videos subreddit.

Hello fellow /r/videos subscribers! We, your humble mod team would like to take a few minutes to talk about this whole situation with the Fine Brothers. Over the past week drama about the Fine Brothers and their React World has grown like wildfire and affected many parts of the internet. Because of this, the Fine Brothers have taken back everything they've done and "apologized" (more info on that here)

Since it looks like most of this is over I'd like to take the opportunity to talk to you guys and see what you think about everything that transpired. Now I understand that not all of you agreed that we should be allowing this sort of drama here, but there is also a vast majority of you that were very interested in it, and that interest proved successful. (I have no doubt in my mind that if the users of reddit didn't get so outraged over their scheme, then the Fine Bros wouldn't have stopped it.)

Anyway what I'm trying to say is this:

• How do you think we handled this situation with the Fine Brothers?

In all major posts we stickied comments to pertinent news making sure that it was easy to see. We also have allowed every post to do with the React drama, but forced them to be flaired with a "React Related" flair so that users not interested in the drama could opt out and not see those posts. This fixes a majority of the issues but sadly most mobile users couldn't opt out. We also didn't close the floodgates on the drama after a few days when frankly it was getting a bit overwhelming. There were many calls to ban all React related content but we decided as a learning experience to stick it out until it was over. I believe over the next couple days everything should die down back to normal.

• Would you be interested in this solution in the future?

If more situations like this arize in the future (Ex: Apple decides to copyright the term apple and sues anyone who enjoys a tasty fruit snack) would you be offput if we took the same approach? In the past we've had to make rules to ban content that we've experienced issues with and we wouldn't like to have to do that again so it's important to get your input on these things.

• And lastly: Is there anything else we should have done in this situation to make everything run smoother?

We know that what we did wasn't the perfect solution so here is the chance for you to tell us how we could do it better in the future.

Thanks again everyone for sticking with us even if you don't agree with everything we do! We are trying our best to keep the subreddit as quality as possible.

Submitted February 02, 2016 at 08:28PM by OBLIVIATER http://ift.tt/1PTermn