Hi, it's Memory here, one of the three admins of TASVideos. Since joining administration 3 years ago, a lot about TASVideos has changed. We made many rule changes, starting accepting a lot more platforms, and received a massive influx of submissions and publications. Yet, we never really gave a new formal sort of mission statement or anything. I would like to change that.
Our mission is to provide access to and information about TASes and to provide assistance to TASers.
We have no intentions of acting as an authority on TASing. Acting as an authority in the past led us to becoming arrogant and receiving resentment from a lot of TASers. Despite what we thought, we never could control what people TASed. Instead what we did was drive TASers away from us.
Even before I became admin, attitudes were beginning to change. We questioned our rules. Now we're changing them to better serve the community. We are human though so there will be remnants of old attitudes in various pages that we forgot to update, but if you find them and bring them up to us, we can change them.
Now the general attitude is that if you're acting in good faith, we want to see you and your TASes here.
We still have our limitations, but those have become far more flexible. If anything, the biggest limiting factor is on the technical side. Site development is largely handled by a small number of people, so any help there would be largely appreciated. You can contribute to the site code on
github.
I would like to openly apologize to any TASers or TASing communities we have ostracized in the past. We at TASVideos want to be better. We can talk if there's any questions or concerns.
The one big thing that is remaining the same and shall always be the same is that we want to emphasize collaboration over competition. We believe in open source principles. We want tases to be accessible to improvement. How the TASes are made and the tricks and glitches used should be public knowledge.
Thank you for reading all this. If people have any concerns or questions, feel free to ask.
EDIT: I really hoped I didn't need to state this, but we still will be banning people if they misbehave. This is not a thread for venting about moderation.
