PHYSICAL

REACTIONS

ARE

ALLOWED

About

This subreddit is dedicated to showcasing interesting and entertaining chemical reactions. Read our Wiki for more information on the types of posts you will see here.. Due to our subreddit's size and variety of interesting gifs, over time this we have grown to be accommodating to other times of chemistry, physics and biology related gifs (those who would just like to view one type may use our filters on this sidebar)

Rules

Physical reactions are allowed, along with an extension of other gifs that we feel relevant to this subreddit which you can read about in our wiki here under the "Post Categories" section. Posts will be tagged accordingly based on what category they fall under.

Not every post that is not a chemical reaction is a physical reaction or relevant to this subreddit's accepted posts. For example a post featuring a can being smashed or the motion of a pendulum will be removed.

All link posts must be in either gif or html5 format. Any link post that is not in one of these formats will be deleted. Any interesting or relevant images or videos (whether they be about the subreddit or a demonstration) must be done in a self post.

No albums of gifs allowed in link post or self post form. This is due to trouble categorizing a post which often has multiple gifs that don't fall under one category and leads to a misleading post and confusion.

Reposts are allowed and will be tagged as such for filtering sake. They will not be removed unless a moderator deems the repost to be of a demonstration or particular gif that has been posted too often (e.g. Mercury(II) Thiocyanate Decomposition).

All link posts must have the source of the gif/html5 video posted in the comments. We expect the original poster to do this, however if someone else does so then it will not be removed. Reposts of a post with a source that do not contain the source in the comments will be deleted.

Link posts utilizing the gif/html5 format to skirt the rules will be removed. For example if a demonstration is posted that is a gif but is essentially static image then it will be removed. We will approach this rule on a case-by-case basis to avoid removing naturally slow/lengthy demonstrations to the best of our ability.

In rare cases, exceptions may be made by the moderators if a post is exceptionally intriguing and relevant to discussion in order to maintain quality standards.

We polled you subscribers and you seemed to be rather negative about long videos but undecided about short ones. So to alleviate this problem we are banning any videos longer than one minute. Any videos longer than one minute will be removed. (If it's off by a few seconds, that's fine).

Although videos are still allowed, please make an honest effort to make a gif from the video first. If the subreddit becomes too full of videos we might have to ban all videos. Please note that if this rule has a negative impact on the quality of submissions, we may remove it down the road (although I don't think it will).

If you need to, you can title a post "Post Title Here: Video in comments" or something, letting viewers know there is a longer video in the comments section. Try to post the best part of the reaction as a gif in that case.

If you have any feedback, complaints, etc. you can either post here or private message the mods to preserve anonymity.

If you need help making a gif of your video, check the sidebar or contact the mods!

For those who don't know, just right click the video on when you want it to start. There should be an option that says "Copy Video at this time" (I don't think it's that exactly) Then just paste it to here and it'll start on when you clicked.

Seriously, enforce submitting links with timestamps embedded(so the video starts at a certain point) or something like that if you're really concerned about the length of videos - maybe enforce a "large video" tag?

This is the internet. This is the kind of rule that stems that's analogous to running out of room in a print material like a newspaper.

You're even letting people submit longer videos in a text post.....what difference does it make!? People still go to the comment for further information anyways.

I'm sorry I'm so vociferous, I know this is chemicalreactiongifs, but still - the stated purpose is This subreddit is dedicated to showcasing interesting and entertaining chemical reactions. I personally don't see gifs and think of the file format myself...maybe I'm alone there.

Do you think this will alleviate whatever concerns the polled subscribers will have....?

Not entirely, but the best we can do is test one idea at a time. In the end, you guys are really the ones who run this subreddit. (We don't want to become one of those subs that forces undesirable rules on users). This idea was suggested the most out of all other ideas so we figured we'd start there. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else.

I support this decision. It's probably the best step in the right direction. We want gifs, and gifs are being highly recommended. If that's impossible, we still have leeway to post videos if required. I'd personally rather have a video than nothing...and I say this as somebody for whom most vids are blocked behind company firewall.

Don't mean to sound umm.... like a jerk but if someone thinks 60 seconds is a long time, they have more problems than whether or not "the video is too long."

I certainly get that it can be an annoyance, however. So I kind of understand the need to do something. To be 100% blunt and frank, I came here, saw it was full of stars and read this post to realize that it really isn't. So I'm guessing if I can't get my science-geek on because of a problem with people having the attention-span of fleas, then I need to unsub and go elsewhere. But not yet cause I can see that this has some room to play out. I love seeing stuff here so don't let me down.

Myself and the other moderator originally thought having any sort of chemical reaction content (whether it be gif or video) should be allowed in this subreddit. But since our subscribers decided otherwise, we didn't want to go against the majority.

The main reasons this was suggested is because many people viewing this subreddit are at school or work where they can't watch youtube video and come here mainly because the gifs make it simple.