Poll: Vid Permissions

[thefourthvine]

Recently, I have been doing some codeine-enhanced pondering of vids - specifically, linking to them or recommending them, and how we do that, and how we get permission to do that. (This was inspired by a discussion with someone, but I won't be mentioning her name unless she indicates that she wants me to.) Because in media fandom, my understanding is that fannish etiquette requires you to ask permission before you link to or recommend a vid. But I could be wrong. I have yet to get my hands on miss_manners161's Guide to Fannish Etiquette. That thing is so damned hard to find.

So, in the absence of a definitive ruling, I thought I'd ask vidders.

There aren't, however, a lot of vidders reading this LJ, I don't think. And I'd like to get responses from as wide a cross-section of the vid-making community as possible. So, if you are a vidder (or, as AMV people put it, editor) - or if you aren't, but a lot of vidders read your LJ, or if you have the password to the Secret Clubhouse where all the cool vidkids hang out - could you please link to or pimp this? Great would be my joy and appreciation.

Obviously, only those with LJ accounts can take this poll, but anyone can comment anonymously. (Or, heck, email me if you like - thefourthvine at livejournal dot com will find me.)

And, just to repeat: this poll is for those who have vidded only. There will be a poll for non-vidders, though, coming soon.

[Poll #796561]

Comments

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I post in my lj. If I post in other communities, I link back to that post. I ask people to rec at will but to link to that post rather than directly to the vid link.

This is because I sometimes move my vids, or put up new versions, and I want editing that one post to take care of everything.

So I'm not going to become RABID if someone ignores that, but I'm sort of irked, because they're going to end up with a dead link, and they really didn't need to.

I don't as a rule do vid recs, because I don't as a rule do recs, because I'm lazy and unopinionated.

I do announce/rec vids by damned_colonal and black_hound, because we all know each other, vid bitch for each other, host on the same page.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I post in my lj. If I post in other communities, I link back to that post. I ask people to rec at will but to link to that post rather than directly to the vid link.

This does not seem challenging or arcane. I'm pleased! Recommending live-action vids is apparently supposed to be much easier than I've been making it.

Come to think of it, "making things harder than they have to be" is something of a theme in my life.

I don't as a rule do vid recs, because I don't as a rule do recs, because I'm lazy and unopinionated.

If you don't do recs, it's probably because you're sane. (At least in that respect. No overall warranty is expressed or implied, you understand.) The Urge to Rec is like the urge to convert people to a religion involving flower petals and gold limos and group sex and a savior named Ralph - it's just one of those things that happens to you. You do it because you cannot not do it.

Sometimes you're even born that way. I think I was. I swear I learned to talk pretty much entirely so I could convince people to read the things I liked. Back then, it was all "Richard Scary" this and "Richard Scary" that, whereas now it's more with the porn, but the basic underlying urge is the same.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Recommending live-action vids is apparently supposed to be much easier than I've been making it.

I am thinking so, yes. Either that or I'm criminally complacent, in which case I'm in a lot of fairly good company...

Come to think of it, "making things harder than they have to be" is something of a theme in my life.

We're back on the subject of porn now, right? :)