Hello /r/documentaries subscribers, we're very glad you're here.
During June 2020, we are trialling some changing submission guidelines to increase the quality of the submissions to fit the community, to make the subreddit easier to navigate and search, and to improve your experience.
In particular, we are testing if enforcing a more strict title policy increases submission quality, and makes it easier for you to filter out things that may not be interest to you.
Our submission format is:
Title (Year) - optional description [hh:mm:ss]
The length of the documentary being posted is now a mandatory piece of information, in hours and minutes, for the length of this trial. This will hopefully allow you to more easily judge the type of content you'll be watching.
We are also requiring that the word trailer appear in the title text, and the Trailer flair applied, for any submissions which are trailers instead of full documentaries.
Please continue to report any submissions which do not match.
If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please reply down below or send it over in modmail. Tell us what works and what doesn't work. If we can make the experience better for everyone then that's absolutely of interest to us!
Edit: Due to a large number of posts that prove it, the title guidance on length of the documentary is not clear. We have amended it so that seconds are a mandatory part of the title, thus removing any ambiguity.
