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Recently, TASVideos put out a mission statement detailing the new direction we have been, and will continue to be, taking the site. The statement also serves as a public apology for everyone that we had pushed away from the site while still following our old standards and practices. The apology is specifically meant to be for those that were pushed away by our content standards, specifically our older, much harsher standards. The thread for the apology is supposed to serve a dual purpose as a topic of discussion and as a resource that we can point others to when they have questions about us. However, the intent of the apology has been frequently mistaken to be an apology for our moderation. As a result, we've had to split posts out of that thread on more than one occasion in order to keep it on track with the original intent. We felt the best course of action here was to actually create a space for our moderation to be discussed.
All we ask is that the discussion remains in good faith. The reason we have had to moderate the other thread so heavily is not because we were trying to silence criticism, that has never been nor will ever be our intention, it's because we felt that the criticism was presented as bad faith attacks on our characters as TASVideos staff. You are free to criticize our actions as much as you like, but attacking us as people is still very much not okay in any context. Should specific incidents be cited, a moderator or staff member may step in and provide further explanation and context for the actions we took and the behavior we showed at the time. Such explanations are not intended to be implicit defenses or justifications for our actions, and should not be treated as such in turn.
In short, as long as you present your criticisms, arguments, and suggestions calmly and civilly in accordance to our site conduct rules, we will listen to and address them appropriately.
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I asked Samsara when this Topic was made if it was more appropriate to move my, and CoolKirby's posts across.
Unfortunately that would bop her post since there's no way to pin/prioritize her post in the thread.
So to make it simple at least for now. I'm just quoting our two comments across.
Spikestuff wrote:
Memory wrote:
We at TASVideos want to be better. We can talk if there's any questions or concerns.
Something that I want to bring up, at least I believe it's in the meaning of the thread, so I apologize if this is a bit of a derailment, but it's something that's been biting me.
15 years ago, you can say this ban was justified around that time due to impersonation in the IRC chats.
But ~13 years after it well around that time I brought up seeing if this user could be reinstated, and I brought it up to Memory and Samsara.
This was something that was worth trying, like we got Samsara back, so this user, after so much time sounds like a good idea to return.
After all she is the co-founder of tcrf. xkeeper, or X.
Unfortunately, around that time her former roommates decided to drag her online about it.
Unfortunately, X didn't have a response at that time, so it was their word against her nothing.
Unfortunately, that book that I reopened ended up being shut right in front of my face.
She did end up eventually responding with evidence, and I just wished that I could just in good faith, before I left Publishing (let's be fair, you can't stop this old cat from having fun encoding) to actually try this request again.
I just froze. There's many things in the lead up to my end of Staff that I wished I brought up, but with this thread, this is something I want to bring forward.
I don't know why I never brought this back up afterwards, nor why I didn't try to fight for this, after all I did fight for a lot of things in the background and one was for the return of Samsara but that was with help.
How I talked about something, how I argued. Both good and bad, but this would've been a real good decision if I just didn't freeze up, cause I just didn't know how to present this forward-- ever.
I feel like, considering how much time has passed, how much this person has changed, I believe xkeeper should be reinstated.
Even if they don't use this site anymore, I believe that they could still be a big hand if they notice, or something.
She means something to a community that she made, and I honestly feel like this is something that should be mended.
Even if she has comments that criticize the site afterwards, I criticize the site on certain points, so please don't use that as something against her.
Again, I feel like this is something that can be mended.
I just don't know how to go about this anymore.
CoolKirby wrote:
I agree with Spikestuff about Xkeeper. I don't know as much about her, but I have been subscribed to her on YouTube for years, and she is constantly researching and sharing game info for people to read and benefit from. This aligns with her extensive TASVideos post history, which even in some of her final few posts, added useful info to topics.
As an older user of the site, I remember seeing her posts scattered in threads, usually a page below the current one. Her ban was the first high-profile one I can remember, and the question of whether it's still warranted has surfaced in my mind every couple years. Much has changed in 13 years; what she took issue with, like certain traits of admin behavior, are no longer present on the site, and we are more inclusive as a whole. It may be time to offer her another chance.
On topic, the site's entertainment changes have only made it easier to feel like starting a TAS, first with Vault and now with even more allowed games and categories. I no longer have to restrict myself to any%, or a full completion that may take hours, thanks to several always-acceptable Standard goals like NG+ and glitchless, let alone the freedom of Alternative publications. Perfect optimization is not expected now, so a racing game TAS for example isn't impossible to want to start without committing years to squeezing every last frame out of every turn. This is reflected in the several first publications of racing games this year alone. The definition of a game breaks down even more barriers to entry. It has never been easier to want to TAS on this site. I thank everyone involved in these changes, and hope to see those affected by the previous mindset return and enjoy themselves here. (Hi Flygon!)
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