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MobyReed (387) on 8/9/2024 6:17 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report
MobyPro
- Added lightbox functionality to MobyPro covers and promo images feature
- Added yearly subscription option
- Bug fixes related to subscription handling
General Updates
- Added unsaved progress feature to credits tool to indicate when there are unsaved changes and gives a warning if you try to exit without saving
- Added videos section to Standards
- Added callouts for missing biographies and missing company overviews
- Added a better error message for missing approval type
- Added max length to search field
- Added backend support for multiple subscription types
- Fixed a bug with GOG SKUs
- Fixed game relations approval link
- Fixed duplicated iTunes prices
- Always generate absolute URLs for avatars
- Misc. other fixes, tweaks and polish
aquapendulum (135) on 8/11/2024 8:33 AM · edited · Reply · Permalink · Report
One of my video contributions was rejected for its playback being disabled on non-YouTube websites. The standards should clearly state this rule too.
About video additives: Do the standards further prioritize between types of "additives"? Types of additives that can be found are:
- Watermarks.
- Pre-rolling or post-rolling channel logo.
- Background images that fill in place of black bars. This is when the original video content has been converted to a different aspect ratio, but doesn't stretch to fill, but rather to fit.
- Hard-encoded translation subtitles.
If 4 videos each has one of these additives but not the others, are they further prioritized or treated the same?
Lampbane (23197) on 8/14/2024 10:17 PM · Reply · Permalink · Report
So, as the person who rejected it I can say it's not a rule so much as a discretionary act based on the fact that we have limited space on the video pages as they're currently set up, and a video that sends users away from Moby isn't terribly useful to them. If it was a red band trailer or official video that would be one thing, but it's a user-generated gameplay video with embeds broken just so the channel creator can juice their channel views. I strongly believe you can find another video to replace it.
As for the additives, your first three are outright banned and I haven't come across user-generated subtitles on gameplay videos but I think I would reject that as well. Keep in mind these rules are for gameplay videos; the other two categories "trailers" and "other" aren't as stringent.
aquapendulum (135) on 8/15/2024 7:19 AM · Reply · Permalink · Report
Right. The gray zone where the trailer category exists is where I'm requesting further clarifications.
