There is a lot about this site that could use cleaning. Back awhile ago when Savia was updating the FAQ, I volunteered to rummage through a lot of it and make suggestions about improvements. The term "snowball effect" applies to what I found. If a revolutionary new streaming video...scenario...was implemented, along with renovations to the donation/pledge page(s), then I wonder if an entire site overhaul might be in our future.JaddziaDax wrote:and the "pledge" thing kind of annoyed me too, but the process never really confused me... but that's just me... I've seen several times on the forums where it's confused others, and thats where I agree that the page/process could definitely use cleaning.Donating should be at most a four click process. It should not involve a contract, pledge, or some type of thing that is meant to reign me in and feel like I'm obligated to the site.
I still don't quite understand how streaming video would greatly benefit this site. We don't know that it would drive more donating traffic here. Plus, are people here still going to post their vids on the Tube? Probably, so why should someone on the Tube come here to watch something they can watch over there? Plus, if massive changes start happening over there with AMVs due to copyright issues, that raises the question of whether a-m-v.org wants to also be even more exposed to such things by jumping on the streaming video bandwagon - if copyright issues force AMVs off the Tube, the same thing could happen here, possibly more easily, making streaming video a lot more trouble than it's worth.
If streaming video is the wave of the future (or rather, the wave of now), then ok...but we're not dealing with harmless backyard videos of our pets, here, we've got music and video copyright concerns that go from worrying about having videos forcefully removed from this site (which has already happened) to getting uploaders in legal hot water (an extreme scenario, but it's a possibility). Also, if it was a donator-only perk, couldn't that be construed as paying for access to streaming video/music that none of us has any authority whatsoever to be charging for access to?
It's all such a gray area...I know. But what I'm trying to say is that I would just really, really hate for this site to take any more risks than it already does. I don't know, maybe adding streaming video is not perceived as much of a risk, but I personally don't feel very comfortable with the idea.
