Dr.Dinosaur wrote:
Also, I'm not sure youtube style comment system will really be all that great. Has anyone actually read youtube comments and found a discussion about the video on it? I usually just see comments about justin bieber, comments about the amount of dislikes, or people being racist, ignorant, and brain-cell-killingly stupid.
On the other hand, this is not the Tube. If it were set up like the Tube, yeah, that would conceivably foster similar results, but I wouldn't advocate that it be set up that way. If you designed the comment area to look less like a YouTube comment list and more like a forum thread (with some direction as to what's required), that would help a lot, I think, in terms of encouraging people to post more than one-liners. How to remind them to do this...current QC system makes it really easy, that would have to be revamped as well if more extensive feedback was desired.
Coming at this from another standpoint (and to address the topic of this thread):
This site has a very difficult time putting new videos front and center, and we've got all sorts of manual workarounds for it which don't really achieve the best results. People make announcement threads, yet anyone who isn't aware of that forum (or doesn't the forums themselves) will never see that thread. The New Vid on the Block area on the main page is very hard to see, plus it can only handle a handful of videos. If you want to find more "new" videos (or even figure out what is defined by "new"), it essentially devolves into a Super Search, which is cumbersome and really, really asking a lot of people who just want to see what "new" action videos have been released in the past week. The New Vid area also gives you absolutely no information on the videos other than their titles, which is generally useless for figuring out a) what videos you want to watch and b) whether they're worth watching. Again, there are workarounds for most of this, but should there really have to be?
What if the New Vid on the Block concept was really buffed up and made a section of the site in and of itself - a place not only to find new vids, but also discussion about them? If that New Vid section had an option for how it was displayed (by Genre, by Date, by Comments), then choosing to display videos which had the most recent comments easily replicates the ranking of announcement threads in the forum. It could be broken down further by timeframe, just like the star ranking system, so that - if someone wanted to see videos which had the most comments from the past week, three months, past year, etc., - that would be their option. The announcement threads themselves could then be eliminated - if people want to pimp their favorite videos, do so in the Recommend Videos forum.
Oh yes...and a few years ago there was a "
Site Layout Suggestions" thread in which I (and others) made a lot of points which still apply today. Whatever the fallout of all these discussions about goals and community identity, the site itself has a lot of room for improvement in terms of design and usability, and those things will go a long, long, LONG way towards making a-m-v.org a better place than revamped mission statements or new comment areas ever will.
yeah subs are like alerts. You get videos on the front page and it shows what they made recently. It can get a little unorganized at times...and you HAVE to watch the videos to make them go off the FP. Its not fool-proof but it is a good way of showing people when videos are made at times.
