Poll: Vid Watching

[thefourthvine]

This is the counterpart to the poll I posted earlier. (It, uh, had to undergo some revisions after the results of that poll.) And this one is for anyone who has ever seen a vid.

Again, feel totally free to pimp. I'd love to get a range of responses on this one.

After this, there'll be a round of vid meta coming out, but then I swear we'll go back to fan fiction. I'm really starting to miss recommending the written word.

[Poll #800594]

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I preferred when linking & bookmarking (to del.icio.us) vids to link to the vid announcement post rather than the actually vids website.

This is definitely my preference, both as a link/tag/bookmark maker and a link/etc. user, and luckily it seems to be what vidders prefer, too.

And, hey - does this mean you have a del.icio.us account for vid bookmarks? And if so, would you be willing to share?

So I love it when vidders make and organize vid announcement posts in their memories and/or tags index and I especially love it if they also link to those posts on their websites.

I don't know if I've ever noticed a vidder doing that, linking to memories/tags from the website, but I would love it if vidders did, because - yeah. I prefer using memories and tags for all the reasons you mention and more.

The other topic is password-protected vids website. I'm more hesitant to download a vid if I have to e-mail the vidder and request the log-in info.

I definitely felt that way in the beginning of my vid odyssey. I don't feel that way any more; I still prefer non-protected sites, just because - hey, easier! Faster. (Plus, for various complicated reasons, I don't let myself access my fannish email on the computer where I do most of my work - too distracting. But that is where I download all the vids, so there's this weird shuffle I have to do.) But I'm not hesitant to email vidders for passwords anymore. (I just feel a little sad, because I know that I have almost no chance of successfully recommending a vid to people if they have to email for a password first.)

I think I would be less hesitant if vidders did a comments request like I seen some media communities do. Like requiring people to comment with a statement of the vidder's choosing and they reply back with a screen comment of the log-in info. The vidder could screen all comments by default if they want to do a sticky post instead.

That is a really interesting idea, and not one I'd thought to apply to vidders. Do you mind if I mention it in the Mutant Vid Meta(s) I am currently working on?

[wistfuljane.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I've ever noticed a vidder doing that, linking to memories/tags from the website, but I would love it if vidders did, because - yeah.

I should have clarified & said announcements posts, because I know of no vidders who do link to memories/tags either.

And, hey - does this mean you have a del.icio.us account for vid bookmarks? And if so, would you be willing to share?

My del.icio.us account is at del.icio.us/littleofimportance (http://del.icio.us/littleofimportance) and I tagged the vids under Fanvids (http://del.icio.us/littleofimportance/Fanvids/).

Do you mind if I mention it in the Mutant Vid Meta(s) I am currently working on?

Go ahead.