12-12-2014, 04:43 PM
In terms of voice acting for videos, we have to remain very selective in this process. You've all seen criticism we've received for even just having tigerlily voice videos - and she's a member of staff. Open the flood gates to a community of people that aren't already hugely established YouTube artists, and the floods of negative feedback would be immense.
This by no means is me saying "you guys couldn't do it you all suck", but rather, we wouldn't want to subject anybody to the hurtful comments that would ensue from the YouTube community. We also use cross promotion for our videos to give them more exposure, something the helps us get more visitors. We keep everything in-house, and we get no additional exposure.
I wouldn't mind considering opening up video suggestions to be more of a systematic operation, but you have to remember that this is a set of videos that I am personally taking on. This isn't a site wide operation, and I have been editing these in the entirety.
In terms of letting people with large bodies of accepted trivia help, a lot of the top contributors have their submissions edited frequently by staff to make them abide by standards. A lot of them also frequently have rejections because of various reasons. We allow these users to contribute to the maintaining of the database and we have no idea what would be let through!
Again, no insult to anyone, but I have a personally high standard for approved trivia, and edit things frequently even if mistakes are only minor.
This by no means is me saying "you guys couldn't do it you all suck", but rather, we wouldn't want to subject anybody to the hurtful comments that would ensue from the YouTube community. We also use cross promotion for our videos to give them more exposure, something the helps us get more visitors. We keep everything in-house, and we get no additional exposure.
I wouldn't mind considering opening up video suggestions to be more of a systematic operation, but you have to remember that this is a set of videos that I am personally taking on. This isn't a site wide operation, and I have been editing these in the entirety.
In terms of letting people with large bodies of accepted trivia help, a lot of the top contributors have their submissions edited frequently by staff to make them abide by standards. A lot of them also frequently have rejections because of various reasons. We allow these users to contribute to the maintaining of the database and we have no idea what would be let through!
Again, no insult to anyone, but I have a personally high standard for approved trivia, and edit things frequently even if mistakes are only minor.