Posted: 1/28/2010 8:23 AM
Post subject: TASVideos now has a YouTube based group
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Flygon
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And here it is! I had found the feature a day or so ago and set up the group since, I personally think this will be a very useful central method of displaying Tool Assisted Videos to the general audience and would encourage people to post their TAS's, whether they are full blown TAS's, just playarounds or purely demonstrations. I intend for this to be less formal then the DailyMotion groups because of the discussion features inbuilt to YouTube, thus, facilitating the general audience a bit more, I hope. The group is completely open for now, but if we begin to get bots, I will begin to lock down on the flow of people joining the group, not something I want to do. Also, this is in the General discussion because it's more of an informal thing, but still relevant to the Site.
Posted: 1/28/2010 9:54 AM
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Heisanevilgenius
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I added my Family Feud video as well as the Hagane video Tiger- and I co-authored. We might want to restrict who can join. Besides the issue of bots, we might end up with people outside of this forum tossing in lazy tool-assisted videos that are uninteresting or highly unoptimized.
Posted: 1/28/2010 9:57 AM
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Flygon
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On the case of restricting people that can join, I am considering it but I'd like to keep it open for a few days first, to allow people from TASVideos to join in without fuss first. This is pretty much the only place that has the group publicised anyway. Incidentally, I will automatically promote any Publishers, Judges or Moderators that join the group to Moderators (At least, I am sure that is what promoting does, unless it is Shining Force style anyway =B).
Posted: 1/28/2010 2:26 PM
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WebNations
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i have nearly every tas from here uploaded to youtube but adding them to a group is a mess. i remember years ago it was possible to add several movies at once to a group but nowadays it seems to be impossible. is it possible for the group owner to add multiple movies from any user to the group?
Posted: 1/28/2010 2:35 PM
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Nach
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WebNations: YouTube has an API. Maybe we can make a script to add multiple videos to it?
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Posted: 1/28/2010 8:37 PM
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CtrlAltDestroy
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I think it would be silly to add every published TAS, when they've probably already been uploaded by WebNations or adelikat's OfficialTASVideos account. Instead, I propose that only members of this group should be allowed to add their own published runs. This'll cut down on needless redundancy and keep the focus on the members of the group, and help to prevent the other videos (TAS-related videos such as playarounds, WIPs, and demonstrations) from being lost in a sea of stuff that we've all already seen.
Posted: 1/28/2010 10:15 PM
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Heisanevilgenius
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I think CtrlAltDestroy has a really good point. I agree with him.
Posted: 1/28/2010 11:52 PM
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Flygon
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I agree with CtrlAltDestroy, I've added a note saying only the author of the video can add them and linked to WebNations account and the official account as a complete archive. Also, please PM we your YouTube name if you're a Publisher or Judge, sorting through people is really much of a pain.
Posted: 1/29/2010 4:33 AM
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nesrocks
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"I propose that only members of this group should be allowed to add their own published runs". Then how would webnations add any video at all if he didn't make any run? I've added all TASes that I had already on youtube and that are currently published runs on this site. 3 of them weren't made by me, they are happylee's, inichi's and marcokarty's. I have a question I wasn't able to figure out. How do I reach the group from youtube's first page?
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Posted: 1/29/2010 5:33 AM
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Flygon
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I've just been accessing the group from inside my profile, never figured out how to do it from the front page. About the 'Only authors can add their own runs' thing, people are able to add videos that aren't inside their own account (for example, if I made a TAS and WebNations uploaded it, I could add it to the group under my name).
Posted: 1/29/2010 10:28 AM
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Heisanevilgenius
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FODA sort of raises another point. What about runs with multiple authors? The authors might add duplicate versions of the run not knowing a co-author already did so.
Posted: 1/29/2010 10:36 AM
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Flygon
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Simple, I remove the duplicate video... but I'll be honest; I'm mostly relying on in communication between team members to sort out who adds the video. But ultimately, it is a very minor and easily fixed issue.