The original post: /r/television by /u/TVModBot on 2025-09-21 20:43:54+00:00.
AMAs (“Ask Me Anything” question and answer threads) will no longer be coordinated for r/television by the moderation team. How the process generally worked historically is that a Reddit admin, a representative or the person themselves, would message our moderator mail inbox asking to set up a date and time that would work for an AMA. Once a time was confirmed, we then did something like adding it to our calendar to promote it. Our moderation team will now decline these opportunities. If appropriate, we will suggest they try to conduct the AMA in a different community (e.g. an AMA related to season 2 of a show can go in the subreddit for the show).
The reason for this change is that the cost and benefit to the subreddit is no longer seen as worth it. A benefit is that people would get a chance to interact with a television related figure they are interested in, such as an actor they like. A cost is the corporate sheen that these activities gave the community. Over the years, users have increasingly expressed frustration with AMAs being inauthentic to their original purpose, in that they are only used to answer questions related to some kind of project, rather than about other topics (the “anything” part of “AMA”), with the subreddit treated like a press tour pit stop.
If a television related figure wishes to conduct an AMA in the subreddit, they will still be allowed to do so (if it is credibly them), but should do so under their own personal account and not a generic corporate account, and the r/television team will not provide any promotion for the AMA.
While this thread is locked to prevent comments, for the next week please feel free to submit a thread discussing the matter if you have any opinions about this change you wish to share.