Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-6991905-20150405224253/@comment-3076045-20150413011322

I've only skimmed the above points so far (mobile phone viewing atm)...

But so far I'm cautiously in approval of this proposal.

To explain why, I'll go back to the time Skyrim came out, and the reasons why we have such a strict policy (just so you dont think we have it just for the sake of it or anything).

The reason was that at the time, we had a heck of a lot of people wanting their videos to be uploaded (and later, to be linked to in the articles). We had good videos being removes for ones thar had nothing to do with the quest or location, and we had to take thr position to just blanket ban most videos, just to stop the edit warring. (For a time, ot really was that bad).

Having sais THAT though.. these proposals would address those issues we had initially (i.e. a well defined set of standards would ensure we get quality videos, and no ads meaning that there is no temptation by the possibility of profit from the use of their videos). (Side note: No staff member gets paid for this either - thats not why we're here!)

So ... as long as we have steps in place to stop all out warring over "my video is better than your video", im all for it