Joined: 11/22/2004
Posts: 1468
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
We should not make it mandatory for people to encode their submissions. That just makes it far harder to submit runs to the site. There are all sorts of problems that could arise for people making submissions. It's technically difficult to even make a half decent encode, there may be bandwidth or computer limitations to deal with, and it simply makes it less attractive to submit to this site (which might reject your run; if you simply put it on Youtube, since you have an encode anyway, you wouldn't have to deal with that). We should keep it as easy as possible for people to make submissions. Keep the bar as low as we can.