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Ticket #6089
Status: Open
Opened by LightlySaltedBuilder
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Feature Request
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3/8/18 12:12 am 3/8/18 12:12 am

The YouTube section should be limited to strictly Minecraft related videos.

I love the idea of the new YouTube section, even though I'm not into YouTube Minecraft, it's definitely a great idea and a good way to help small channels.

However, seeing as PMC is a Minecraft site, I think it makes sense to limit the videos in the new YouTube section to only Minecraft related videos. The main reason I'm saying this is because so far I've seen a lot of videos that are not Minecraft related, and as stated before, I think this site should remain Minecraft-centered.

As an example of how many non-minecraft videos there are, when I checked the pop-reel, only three out of the nine videos were minecraft related. Also, on the first page of recently updated only 7 out of 22 videos were about minecraft. 7 Minecraft and 15 non-Minecraft videos. So there's probably about 2 non-Minecraft videos for every Minecraft video there is currently.

How exactly it would work:
I was informed that the YouTube section uses a bot to automatically upload any videos on the channel to PMC. To work with this, I think the bot should also check the video to see if the video has minecraft as the game being played. In YouTube you can set what game you are playing, and Minecraft is one of the options if you didn't know. This way the mods have to do minimal work removing non-Minecraft videos.

Also, people would have to know how this works, so on the sidebar there would be a section where it explains how to get your videos on here. It would state how the system works, and specifically say that only Minecraft videos are allowed, and that you need to have Minecraft listed as the game being played to have the video get uploaded on the site.


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03/11/2018 8:16 pm
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LightlySaltedBuilder
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modified ticket description.
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03/11/2018 4:37 pm
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TobyIsAwesome
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Yeah!!! Minecraft related videos on a minecraft site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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03/09/2018 8:29 pm
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LightlySaltedBuilder
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modified ticket description.
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03/08/2018 3:58 pm
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Azie
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I disagree.

Our Blogs section used to be limited to "Minecraft-only" content and what we saw happen was the slow decline of quality content as good content creators ran out of things to write about. I'd imagine the same thing would happen with the Youtube section if that was the case there.
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03/08/2018 8:29 pm
Level 53 : Grandmaster Architect
LightlySaltedBuilder
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In reply to Azie and Luis, I don't think this would be a problem by itself, a little bit of non-minecraft content doesn't hurt. But the majority of the videos currently are not minecraft related. In fact an overwhelming majority. Only 7 videos on the front page were about Minecraft, and the other 15 were about other games.

PMC is a Minecraft site, but the YouTube section is not focused on Minecraft. Currently the YouTube section seems a lot like a gaming YouTubers section, not a Minecraft YouTubers section. I don't know about you, but that seems like a problem to me.
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03/08/2018 5:07 am
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Luis
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PMC isn't a Minecraft only site however, fact of the matter is our forums, blogs and community as a whole is saturated with non-Minecraft content. Our blog section used to not allow non-Minecraft content, but that has not been the case for years, until rules change for other parts of the site (particularly blogs), I don't see why the YT section should be held to a higher standard.
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03/08/2018 1:38 pm
Level 52 : Grandmaster Professor
Acier
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Even beyond the fact that it isn't a minecraft only site, its not even feasible. Either a moderator would have to sort through all the content and decide what is shown and what isn't, Or the site could only pull content that is listed as "gaming" and has minecraft as the game title. I think plenty of small creators don't actually make sure they put their videos under gaming and minecraft and their videos would be left out.

The section as a whole seems more like its focus is to help members of the community grow their youtube channel and is more community focused rather than a nice place to find minecraft youtube videos. the tabs "rising star" "popular on pmc" and "new to pmc" make it feel like the purpose is more to give exposure to the people who contribute to the community regardless of the content they post
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03/08/2018 8:32 pm
Level 53 : Grandmaster Architect
LightlySaltedBuilder
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How is it not possible? I'd say it's pretty easy to tell if something isn't Minecraft related. While there are some types of content which might be kind of gray, but usually you can just look at whether someone is playing Minecraft or another game, and be able to tell whether that would be breaking this rule. (If it's implemented)
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03/08/2018 8:38 pm
Level 52 : Grandmaster Professor
Acier
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I never said it wasnt possible I said it wasnt feasible. I take it from your reply that you feel it should be decided by hand what gets posted and what doesnt. This could happen one of two ways, either paril develops some sort of feed that all of the videos get sent to and you have moderators approve them before they get posted, or you have them all get posted and then mods remove non minecraft videos. both options require the already busy (volunteer) mods to spend a decent chunk of time on a very small section of the site. I'm sure some of the mods would even be willing to do it, but its time that could be spent on other things
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03/09/2018 8:28 pm
Level 53 : Grandmaster Architect
LightlySaltedBuilder
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I think at first it would be a good bit of work, but after a while people would realize that non-minecraft videos aren't allowed and stop uploading them. Obviously you'd have the occasional poster, but it wouldn't be much worse than any other section. Also, none of the site (except for the mods and texture packs) has a greenlight system, so I don't think it would make sense to do it for this one part.
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03/09/2018 9:22 pm
Level 52 : Grandmaster Professor
Acier
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To the point that people will realize, after 7 years people still put their ip in the chat lobby. In addition you seem to not know how the system works. The YouTube section automatically posts videos by itself as soon as you upload it to YouTube, you don't decide if the video gets posted. The only way to stop your videos from getting posted into the feed is to remove your YouTube link from your account
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