Video Examples Quality Control

I agree on the Situational Damage Attack video.

Edited by antenna_ears on Oct 28th 2020 at 2:04:49 AM

Hello :) I found an iffy video example on Calling the Old Man Out, "Tony Calls Cap Out." I asked about it in Is this an example, and Adept agreed that it was a shoehorn. So, can someone edit the video?

Edit: Grammar. Shame on me.

Edited by Tenebrika on Oct 30th 2020 at 1:14:54 AM

Something About: The creator has made it very clear he doesn't want his videos reuploaded without permission outside of short, credited clips, yet there is a more than a minute long video on Bait-and-Switch (a great example of it, mind) for an episode that is about four minutes long.

Honestly I'm kinda surprised it took this long for someone to upload a video for this series.

Should we make a note on some page about certain creators who don't want significant parts of their videos uploaded? Maybe a "special cases" heading under No Video Examples, Please!?

Edited by mightymewtron on Oct 29th 2020 at 9:50:53 AM

I deleted the Situational Damage Attack video. If you have any other concerns with Paper Mario: Color Splash or Paper Mario: The Origami King, please let me know.

1. Nobody but the original uploader of the video can change anything about it.
2. You cant really edit your own videos on the site, but you can delete them and reupload them. (The edit button is only for the title, thumbnail, desc., media source and deleting the video if you want to).

Yeah, I think we oughta

Edited by antenna_ears on Oct 29th 2020 at 11:54:46 AM

Hey, so two videos I tried uploading broke both times, and it won't let me access the menu to delete them. Help is required

Wait, did you click Edit Videos under the video examples for the trope? Most importantly, you need to be on the trope page to edit videos.

Yes, that is how I uploaded them in the first place. Clicking the gear that normally brings up the menu does nothing on these videos.

That can happen if you have some special characters (for example "ÂÂ") in the description.

There were no special characters.

But are there now? The editor has a tendency to add them seemingly randomly.

Anyway, if you can't access the edit menu, the best you can do is probably to PM a mod about it (they should still be able to delete the videos for you).

Nevermind.

Edited by antenna_ears on Oct 29th 2020 at 1:45:26 AM

Update on the undeletable videos; turns out it turned a symbol into a special character, so that's why it won't open the menu. Which one of the mods would be open to a PM about this?

Hey I will ask this question again since it got buried. Can portions of musical lyrics videos be used as examples? Like, if I wanted to add, say, a trope example from a song, could I use part of the lyrics video for it? Or is that not allowed?

We really should.

I think it'd depend on the type of video. Like if it was just the lyrics on-screen I don't think it'd be a good idea, but if it was a video with lyrics and stuff happening (e.g. the lyrics video for "Punch Drunk Destiny"), I think it would be fine.

Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Oct 31st 2020 at 2:56:52 PM

Quick write-up for an addendum to No Video Examples.

The following works have limitations on video examples:

• Vine: Due to the extremely short length of a Vine, there's no way to upload enough material that coherently summarizes the trope without violating copyright.
• Something About: The creator does not want his videos re-uploaded outside of short, credited clips.

Thanks for the clarification! Wasn't familiar with the creator so I just went off your initial post.

Edited by mightymewtron on Nov 1st 2020 at 3:37:59 PM

Slight addendum to the SA bullet;

• Something About: The creator does not want his videos re-uploaded outside of short, credited clips; anything under thirty seconds is fine for videos over five minutes.

I believe he once said 25-30 seconds was fine, but considering the animations can clock in anywhere from 4-8 minutes (and a few of his first were around 2), we might be skirting copyright from the shorter ones.

sorry

Edited by valozzy on Nov 1st 2020 at 12:42:27 PM

As I already pointed out.

Regarding the ratings system, is your example getting rated 3-stars grounds considered a red flag? I thought my Workaholics example for Hollywood Tone-Deaf was fine, but someone rated it a 3 (kind of an example) and now I'm wondering if I did something wrong. Is it the description?

The video has the third actor "sing" in a clearly fake screechy voice, so I thought that fit the trope.

Edited by antenna_ears on Nov 1st 2020 at 6:33:23 AM

The votes are basically meaningless, since there's no way to know why they got the vote they did.

While thats true, searching for videos by Lowest Rated is actually pretty helpful in sorting out the bad ones.

Edited by antenna_ears on Nov 1st 2020 at 7:06:54 AM

True.

I wouldn't sweat a 3-star rating, though. One of mine has only 3-stars and I suspect it's because of sound quality issues (it was my first upload and I wasn't used to it), but since I can't know for sure I'm not sweating it.

One of my videos got a 1-star rating and I came to the thread wondering if there was a problem, and once it got more votes it jumped to 4 stars. It was a video about a slightly controversial issue, so I'm wondering if the issue was that it didn't illustrate the trope or if it was simply somebody who didn't like the video's topic.

Edited by mightymewtron on Nov 1st 2020 at 11:25:05 AM