User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/We've disabled Featured Video for wiki editors/@comment-29522542-20190410181245/@comment-20644-20190410182309

We handled Fallout very poorly. We screwed up there — over and over.

In the very beginning of Featured Video we asked your community if they wanted to be a test community for Featured Video. The response was "no." What we didn’t make clear was that we were only asking about being a test community, not about whether you would ever want video. Our company policy was going to end up being that videos were mandatory.

A few months later we restarted the conversation about some initial videos that we could create. I was the one who had those initial conversations with the admins. The plan was to do some test videos with one of our writers, who was a huge Fallout fan, and have the community review the script. Fallout was the first community we offered script review to.

Not long into those conversations, I was told that we couldn’t proceed with that because we wouldn’t be able to handle community review as we increased the number of videos we were producing (something we sort of changed our minds on after a few months).

Then, after dropping the ball on communication and not replying to well-founded admin concerns, we ended up putting about 20 trailers (including the Fallout 76 trailer) onto Fallout Wiki anyway. We did that after not doing any community review or outreach, we just said “this is the decision, deal with it.” The reaction was, as you know and can imagine, justifiably poor.

For us, Fallout was one mistake after another. We then saw similarly justified reactions on other communities, including RuneScape which forked. Our approach was wrong. I'm sorry that it led to problems between users too. I didn't know that until just now.