Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-3492791-20140523192544/@comment-25173123-20140807205837

@DAIFUKKATSU I am not sure I recall saying anything about supporting or promoting "lets play" style videos?

I was talking simply on verbiage in the media policy that dictates direction to the point of a video that is found to be useful can't be used because it doesn't start at the bonfire. (as an example) Or it is not presented with zero humor or inflection.

Videos take time and resources to put together. Capturing, editing, rendering, etc. and there are many videos that would be useful for some areas here in the Wikia. But they can't be used because they don't follow the guidelines put forth.

So be it... you guys go ahead and start placing enough restrictions that people will lose interest. Nobody is talking about creating a Youtube hub within this Wikia. Just rewording the media policy so the censors on this Wikia don't do their usual "nope, gotta delete it immediately" routine because they don't see that damn bonfire first.ha

You say at the end that "I don't think that anyone would have a problem if you were to post a series of blog posts featuring your video commentaries in any style that you wish (within reason), or if you posted links to them on your user page" and yet Jimeee himself gives example of just the opposite that occurred on the other Wiki. Where out right censorship in articles actually permeated the entire Wiki.

I say if you are going to eliminate videos in articles, and talk already pushing to allow no Fan Art either, then go ahead and run the gambit. Lore should be removed from articles. As well as Trivia and strategies. Those items can all be discussed in forums and or blogs or user pages. Then people will have to start hunting for information spread out through the Wikia instead of in the area where it is easy to find in it's specific category.

My humor (which is always at a high) is ebbing due to the conversation. Likely the whole thing that set me off was the fact that commentary is strictly prohibited. That was the straw that broke this guys back in the media policy. Might as well add the angles that the characters need to be viewed from when posting those weapon/sorcery examples. Wouldn't want to have anyone out of step. Make sure all the players in the video are girls with no clothes on to. Gotta make it uniform. Oh, and she has to have brown hair. :P

So over it...

~Hollow till the day I Live.