I think like this. I haven't seen any kind of condescendence towards me when I had posted in the AMV Announcements board for first time, from what I recall. And if it did, it wasn't because I was new, but because I did/wrote something wrong. Same thing with other people, I've yet to see anyone ignoring someone only because of the user's age in the forum: that would make anyone look dumb enough.Nya-chan Production wrote:I joined after 2006 (or at least actively, that is) and don't feel outlawed, and I think I could point out a few more people - most of them are just not willing to go through some critics, I'd say (or they are just pretentious with their "check my vid pls kthxbye").seasons wrote:Given a long enough course of time, almost every message board will eventually shift its focus from the subject it was founded on to the actual members themselves. With my join date being what it is -- although I've lurked since 2002 -- there's no post I can make that won't be greeted by a certain amount of condescension or eye-rolling by the "core" members here. From the outside, it looks like everyone who's been here since 2006 or so has just circled the wagons. I'm not a "Youtube editor" and didn't discover AMVs there, but I can see how it's probably just more convenient to lump everyone who's joined after a certain date into that category.
One of my first posts ever was a video announcement properly entered into catalog where I stated it's new, that I hope for some critique and told this in a nice way - and because of this (the people wrote it) it got fair critique, some views and I slowly came into terms with community AFTER which I came to know inner jokes and such. There are enough kind people willing to check out your video and accept you into community - if you behave properly and you're not some kind of 1337 kid just throwing a single boochsack link.
If it's about not getting attention because you just registered, I guess it's something that depends. There are editors that know other editors and are bound to watch their videos, or comment their threads. It's not about ignoring someone; but having enough trust just to drop out a comment/joke or whatever in the other guy's thread. You can rest assured that if people like the source and music, and have something to comment, they will.
And about the BD vids and mostly MEP ones, yeah. Considering the amount of people involved and importance, it's pretty hard to keep others threads up.
Heck, it would even be better to up first in the list the threads with less responses, and that aren't closed due to inactivity yet, at least that would make it fair for everybody. Remember that watching isn't the same that commenting, so even if they're good they're going down; that's the way the boards goes.
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There's no real sense of elitism behind them, just this formula.. Make crappy vid making fun of the birthday boy/girl, upload. Just when someone's b-day would come up the more friends the person had made, the more people wanted to join the "project". People don't make them crappy enough anymore :/
