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Fucking noobs

Postby godix » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:26 am

The necroposting on the where is our world going thread reminded me, somewhere in that thread I mentioned there should be a fucking noob faq sent to all new users that links to existing faqs, undocumented features, etc. At the time I had school and shit so never did it, and apparently neither did anyone else. I got a few weeks off now and may give this a shot.

Below is my off the cuff idea on how it should be covered. If you know of existing faqs for these subjects, please link them. I know some of them offhand. Others I know exist but would have to search for them. Still others I probably don't even know exist. I also need suggestions on what else to cover, or what I mentioned that perhaps shouldn't be covered. Perhaps some ideas for a better name than 'fucking noob faq' would be useful as well.

Break it into two sections, for viewers and for editors. Viewers should be first since most people with an account on the org are not editors. The list looks long, but for most of these topics a couple sentences and a link are probably all that's needed

Viewers

Community
Forums & PM system
Journals
IRC
Banner creation (or should that be in some other section?)
Donation and donation perks (perks mentioned elsewhere should also be marked as such there as well)

How to find AMVs
Top 10% lists
Top star lists
Recommendation forum
Announcement forum
how to be hasteroth er I mean Stalking uhhh... I mean the alert system
Search
- Quick search
- Super search
- Suggestion Queries

Viewing vids
Preview
How to download local, direct, indirect
Programs/codecs to view downloaded vids


Editors

How to make a video
Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides
IIRC Scintilla has a guide on AVIsynth filters that's more indepth
The various video forums
Kionon's So You Want To Be An Anime Music Video Editor? thread and my So You Want To Be A *GOOD* Anime Music Video Editor? thread

How to upload
Orgs rules on uploading
Basic FTP instructions

Acceptable pimping
Announcement forum
- Preview embeding
- vidid
- vidlink
Journal
Sig banner
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby Otohiko » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:41 am

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... r/main.htm

Still largely applies, although could certainly use some updates.
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby Nya-chan Production » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:46 am

Teh layout. Teh colours!

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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby Dar » Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:11 am

clicked because of interesting title, and tldnr.


but i did skim it actually and i agree.
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby gt-dragon » Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:14 am

Finally I know how to upload I have so many videos in me computer that I have tried to upload but couldn't
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby EvaFan » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:52 pm

Don't forget the random vid link: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... domvid.php :up:

Good for surprises... Though actually getting a GOOD one may/may not take a while.
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby seasons » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:56 pm

gt-dragon wrote:Finally I know how to upload I have so many videos in me computer that I have tried to upload but couldn't

what?
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby Enigma » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:46 pm

Godix for most helpfull
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:46 pm

I've always endorsed a Posting and You style approach to this kind of thing. We edit video here... it shouldn't be that hard to do. :amv:
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby Panky » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:44 pm

godix wrote:[i]- Preview embeding


Is there Preview embeding really or it was just a thing to add?
And about the vidid, I guess there could be some kind of tip for those that are creating a topic in the Announcement forum or detect somehow that they don't know how to and advice them (well I know the first time I copied the "video template" from other topic and applied to my own :D ). That isn't necessary, but it could be a good thing to add as well.
A good suggestion of things to download (codecs, avisynth; the AMVAPP) for those first-login guys in a more noticeable place or page would be better. IIRC, when I first came I found that pack was useful but only after someone on IRC or MSN from here told me. Either way, it could be ignored because they just don't see it, or think that it's more on the "advanced" style of editing.

Some thoughts.
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby 8bit_samurai » Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:24 pm

The Opinion Exchange forum and AMV Contests forum are also an indirect way to find AMVs, even if you aren't exchanging opinions or taking part of a contest. There's also other users favorite Anime Music Videos list, if they have any listed/updated.
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby Knowname » Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:10 am

I didn't do it cuz I didn't like the idea. Isn't this like asking a question if you can ask a question?? Your posting a FAQ about a god damned FAQ!! Fucking mass spam, that's the last thing the org needs.
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby EvaFan » Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:53 am

For the most part... I would just keep the state of mind "Less is more" cause if you give them a bunch of stuff to read and lots of links to other faq, there's no way in hell they are gonna go and actually read them all due to being overwhelmed... Especially since most just come to watch videos.

When new users create an account you could easily just have then select from 2 categories as to what they are going to do with it. 1=Plan to just watch amv's, 2=Become an AMV editor.

Option 2 would send them Both versions of your faq if they selected it. Besides if they changed their mind later on down the road they should be familiar enough with the org to find their own way to what they need by then.
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby godix » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:04 am

Soup wrote:Godix for most helpfull

Ah. Yeah. Didn't think of that. I don't want people thinking I might actually earn that someday. Perhaps I should hold off until after VCAs to do this. Or just make this nothing but a link to my guide on how to be an asshole.

Knowname wrote:Your posting a FAQ about a god damned FAQ!! Fucking mass spam, that's the last thing the org needs.

Have you looked at the other responses in this thread yet? gt-dragon needs pointed to a faq on sig banners and, perhaps, one on uploading avatars. Pankyy apparently needs pointed to the thread about embedding. Oto linked to a resource I didn't even know existed and I've been around seven years now. So while it is a faq about faqs, it's also probably needed...
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Re: Fucking noobs

Postby downwithpants » Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:04 am

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