Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-3492791-20140523192544/@comment-3492791-20140603064013

@ Daifu

I realize that people might consider videos of excessive length to be justified, but that's where the rest of the community comes in. When someone posts a 40 minute video and thinks that it's short enough, the rest of the community goes, no it isn't, and removes it. I can agree that no video would really ever need to be longer than 10 minutes, but I just don't like hard limits.

As to making commentary completely forbidden, I again don't agree with such restrictive policy. Some things just can't be conveyed only visually, sometime further elaboration is necessary. Also as I said before, these hard restriction end up just making people try to find ways to get around them. Saying "No commentary is allowed" will have people instead use visual commentary (having text overlayed on the video to speak to the viewer). If we then try to say that isn't allowed either, then we just end up in an arms race trying to making an airtight guideline. Lastly the point of language barriers is a very weak argument, because if the information is something that can be explained through observation, than even if you can't understand the gibberish that someone is telling you should still be able to figure out what they're doing.

@Volk

I like the Copyright/Plagiarism section much better. Removing the paragraphs from the Video and Image sections I feel leaves them weaker. The point of them is to very explicitly explain when a video or image should or shouldn't be used at all, and why. They help to provide of picture of what is relevant and what is pointless. I'm not necessarily saying it has to be what I wrote, but there should be something.

As for the section about linking media, I wanted to make it very clear that this is something that is simply not ever permitted. As it is written it seems to imply that it's ok to link things as long as they follow the policy.

Also the note about video pertaining to showing how to find items seems overly specific.