Last month, I posted this thread proposing the reorganization of the Submit Videos section. As of today, it has officially been enacted. The new guidelines can be found here
So, just to clear this up, I think I have a thread somewhere on the bottom of the page about an LP I did, but it wouldn't be a problem if I were to make a new one dedicated to all future content I might make (which I intend to get to eventually anyway)?
...Submit Videos isn't part of the NKVD section of the forums, technically. I've voiced my concerns with this in the past, and I have not changed my opinion on the matter. As such, none of my future LPs will be posted there after the current ones are finished. I will still contribute to the NKVD Channel and be as (in)active as I usually am, though.
The whole point of making separate threads to begin with is so that the people looking for videos only visit threads with videos they actually have an interest in watching. Every person having just one thread complicates things across the board. Not only will I have to manage all of my future videos in the one thread, but everyone else then has to wade through the threads of everyone's videos to try and hunt down videos that they are looking for. It would help if we could edit our own topic titles after making the thread like we could before the site update. Then people could know what we're LPing right now...but not all past LPs. I mean, even if we manage to have a very well organized thread, with, say, each LP in it's own post linked to from the OP in a nice list right at the start (which is certainly what "I" would do...), people won't have a clue what's there until they go into the thread. And, quite honestly, "I" would be looking for something specific and would hate having to go thread-by-thread to find what I want. I shouldn't have to be forced to use the Search feature to find something that should be easy to find in the first place.
Or you could just do what you said, make a post per lets play with everything linked in the OP, and people can still easily and quickly click on your thread, see if there is anything there they like by looking at the OP. If there isn't anything they are interested in, they can leave and go on to the next organized thread that has everything neatly linked in the OP. In fact, I would go as far as to say that should be a requirement for posting in there, making everything in the thread easily accessible.
I wouldn't limit people's ability to create posts to their own liking, especially considering the entire thread is dedicated to them.
A couple problems with this: First, people aren't going to want to be forced into doing this (I know that I sure as heck don't). The whole point of separate topics is to keep things organized so people can find what they are looking for. Second, not everyone will have as organized a thread as you or I would. Ultimately, this is making us make a single thread about a very broad topic. It's as if each user can only have a single thread talking about Politics. The maker of the thread can organize their topics relating to Politics as best they can, but everyone who comes in when the thread gets to be extremely long has to wade through unnecessary and/or outdated information to get to what they want and possibly comment on it, adding confusion to the discussion when each person is commenting on different aspects of the topic. This is essentially what it would be like with submitting the videos. Each person would have a thread with LPs completely unrelated to each other, people have to come in and wade through it al to find what they want, and then, if they want to comment on it, they will have to comment within a myriad of other comments about everything else that they aren't interested in. Thus not only is it difficult to find what you are looking for, but difficult to follow the different discussions relating to the various games in the thread.
You really are over-analyzing all of this. First off, not very much is being asked of you at all, the only difference is that you would be posting your videos in one thread, rather than in several, which should honestly be easier on you. Second, and probably most important, you are the only person opposed to this. In the original thread, everyone else was for this reform. In addition, the staff voted unanimously to enact it. Third, it's not like we have 300 posts in that section every day. It wouldn't be hard for people to see what's going on, or follow a particular series that they are interested in. Since almost every video posted is from YouTube, most people would follow the videos to that site and continue from there. That section is typically used to promote Let's Players, not Let's Plays. Fourth, this is different from a political discussion. You're submitting individual videos to what is basically a library. This reform is just meant to organize that library. Political discussions are much more abstract and difficult to categorize. Last thing, this doesn't even affect your current Let's Plays. I stated that you can continue using already existing threads, only that it's discouraged.
Which is exactly why I will finish off my current LPs in their respective threads and post absolutely nothing more to that section of the forums. btw, I'm not the only one opposed. You seem to be forgetting what ironchin posted in the old thread: I agree with him on every respect, except that instead of wasting mod's time, I'd change it to "wasting everyone's time."
Then that is your prerogative. And judging from ironchin's post, he wasn't opposed to the reform, he simply stating that it was an unnecessary one that wouldn't achieve much.
By the way did @DutchMasterRace vote on this? I know that he told me a few days ago on Skype that he didn't think that this would get passed. Edit: I'll just add one more thing here. You compared this to a library. Fine. I'll use a library analogy. Even a library sorts by type of book first. This is like sorting the entire library by author. Regardless if the work is reference, non-fiction, or fiction, they are all compiled together in rows sorted by author. Do you honestly not see the problem with this? Honestly, I can see having game genres in their own threads by user, such as "Showboat's Strategy Game LP Thread" or "Showboat's RPG Game LP Thread." This would allow for organization and help people find what they are looking for. There will be more threads than if it were just one per person, but it won't be as messy as it is now, which was your whole goal to begin with, right? My protest stands until this mandate is amended, though I will continue to contribute to the NKVD channel and be active on the forum. Until then I really don't want to continue wasting time arguing about it, since it's quite likely that any suggestions I make will just get shot down like they did in the old thread about this.
