Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-4033161-20170420232224/@comment-25653892-20170421001034

Typhoon6 wrote: I think it would be better for the wiki altogether, not just for individual users. It would also benefit Fandom as a whole, and might lead to new users joining who like these videos. I would atleast like some on my own articles at least.

Fantendo is more of a community than a wiki at this point. I don't really think we're about attracting new users with flashy content and features. We aren't always about leaning to Fandom's whims so much as maintaining our own community of content creators. There is also somewhat the same fallacy I see throughout the rest of this site, where the assumption is made that bringing in new users is more important than pleasing the existing userbase. But it's even more relevant to Fantendo not to use this fallacy, since longtime users are what make the site what it is, and new users generally don't understand the purpose of the wiki at all, often believing the games are real.

It's fine to want the videos on your own articles, but attracting attention in this manner will probably only get videos put on the most popular content, if at all. Fantendo's most popular content tends to be fangames based on popular franchises such as Mario Kart and Kirby. The point of these articles is to document your game ideas without necessarily having to commit any work to them, and having to script mandatory videos on these games would ruin that. We also have a strict policy of ownership&mdash;what do we do if we have to make a video about a page owned by an inactive user? The intent here seems innocent enough, but the results wouldn't at all be what you want.