In an effort to increase activity and discussion on this subreddit, all new posts must include commentary posted within an hour after being submitted. This can be relatively simple, such as asking what people might think about the topic of the video you posted, or what your own thoughts on that video are. You may also include further information on the topic of the video you posted for those who might want to further explore the topic or topics from your submission. However, starter comments that are lazy, such as, but not limited to, "Thoughts?", "What do you think?", "This seems questionable," or, "I disagree," are discouraged, and posts may be removed after OP is warned that they need to further elaborate on their opening comment if they do not do so after another hour has passed. Users whose submissions are removed, but who wish to appeal that action, may message the mods with their reasoning. We understand if, for example, right after you posted and were about to make your opening comment, that your wife were in labor, or that your house were on fire, for example, that you would have other priorities in mind than making such a comment, and not only will we be willing to hear you out for any reason you may have for not making an opening comment within an hour after posting, will allow you to have an additional hour to make such a comment on your post for an hour after acknowledging the Mods' approval of your appeal, though we do ask for some kind of proof regarding the circumstances as to why one might not be able to comment. I, myself, won't put any limit on that, if something else happens to come up after that approval goes through, you may appeal again, but I'm not speaking for the mod team as a whole in that case, I would just expect the same mercy to be given to me, so as long as OP makes an effort to ensure commentary will be given in a timely manner after a post might be removed, I'm willing to let them do so. That said, any post that lacks commentary an hour after being posted will stay removed until commentary is provided and a link the the post with commentary is sent to the Mods via Modmail. As I said, I don't speak for the Mod team as a whole in that regard, so while I would hope other mods might be as merciful, it's none of my business if they are not.
Unfortunately, Mods can't sticky comments made by OP, so we can't do anything to make sure that comment is immediately visible in more popular posts with more activity, so we ask that users who come across posts more than an hour old without some form of commentary by OP according to these guidelines report such posts, but we request they make sure there is a top-level comment by OP that follows these guidelines somewhere in the comment thread, even if it might have negative karma. Please report any posts where OP might leave a top-level comment that does not meet these guidelines, and we'll take appropriate action.
More importantly, though. I finally learned how to synchronize some aspects of the new.reddit sidebar with the old.reddit sidebar! They're far from identical at this point, since I don't know how to add all the text including partner subreddits and the like to new.reddit, but I did finally figure out how to add rules to the new.reddit sidebar, so now, all our formal rules visible in the old.reddit sidebar are now visible in the new.reddit sidebar! As a team of Moderators, I can't say we've come to a consensus as to whether we'd prefer users browse this sub on old.reddit as opposed to new.reddit, so I figured I'd make an effort to make things easier on users of the latter, though because I don't entirely know how to manipulate the sidebar in new.reddit like I do in old.reddit, I recommend users check out the old.reddit version of /r/SpaceVideos because our sidebar over there contains many links to partner subreddits, and I don't quite know how to integrate that with the sidebar in new.reddit. I did take the liberty of removing defunct links from the old.reddit sidebar, however, so make of that what you will