#1 : : June 9, 2012. @ 01:34 PM GMT Post Rating: Neutral

Jim Profit

Pong

Joined: June 2012

Would it be possible for videos to be uploaded by members?

I see some featured videos of my good friend Laron Bon Varon, and would love to move my series over here. I could save my video game
rantings specifically for this site and leave the other politics for my youtube account.

If it would be too chaotic and too much data stress to let everyone upload videos upon their account and turn this place into "youtube for gamers",
perhaps we could select a few people to do reviews, commentary, etc. Like escapist. Only we wouldn't be fascists and hypocrites.

The only person I have any respect for on escapist is Jimquisition. Even though that fat bastard never answered my calls about teaming up with
me to form "The Jim World Order". Where we'd have the NWO theme and go around video taping ourselves slashing tires, graffiting the walls
of EA or BLIZZARD, and then when they catch us, hillariously watch these two very out of shape whales waddling away muttering how they're going
to die and wheezing... LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juqm94sUV_E

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

HootzMcToke

ColecoVision

Joined: March 2012

Re: Would it be possible for videos to be uploaded by members?

Just Submit an Article

gnat

Creator of LAN Party List

Joined: July 2011

Re: Would it be possible for videos to be uploaded by members?

There's currently two major options in place for featuring videos:

1. The quickest and easiest way is when you do a video, put it on YouTube, open a thread here and talk about it. Alongside the publicity you'll get here (if it's sufficiently important or thought provoking) there's a good chance we'll favourite it from the Woot Event's YouTube page, mention it on Twitter, etc.

2. As Del mentioned, write a brief summary of the video explaining why it's interesting/important, and submit it as an article on the Article Drafting forum, this is where you can take constructive suggestions and make it more effective. If we think it's front-page material we'll feature it.

If it would be too chaotic and too much data stress to let everyone upload videos upon their account and turn this place into "youtube for gamers",
perhaps we could select a few people to do reviews, commentary, etc. Like escapist. Only we wouldn't be fascists and hypocrites.

You'd be right, turning ourselves into a "YouTube" would be too resource intensive for our server hardware at the moment.

For an outline of stuff we're more likely to feature, see our article submission page. Basically, no PR/marketing bullshit, and be as journalistic/objective as possible. This might seem obvious but also back up your ideas with logic and reason; it's extremely important in conveying your ideas convincingly.

Never get discouraged, just let your nerdy flourish.