State of the Viewers Choice Awards

[zest]

Before you change the VCA,
make this website worth using again.

.org used to be the place to be now it's like a subway station no one uses.


So instead of focussing on the VCAs, why don't you work on a massive concept that's 2018 and future worthy.

You need to give people the Power to Organize MEPs on your Site, Organize their Studios here, work with Achievements and all that shit...
Focus on Content. when you visit .org it'S hardly imagineable that there are even videos hosted here.

.org was fit for 2003 but it's far from being fit for 2018, 2019, 2020 and so on. Don't rush it but work on a Relaunch for late 2019 / 2020 that makes a-m-v.org worth using again. Ask yourself what content editors deliver, how they can help you to form a better platform and create an envoirment that helps editors to spread their work, gives viewers the opportunity to enjoy amvs the most easy and pleasend way.

Don't forget the oldschool but don't stick to it like a c*cksucker, yeah michael jackson was great but people talk about different people now.

I'd be happy to help you guys with branding, concept in layout

[Kionon]

You need to give people the Power to Organize MEPs on your Site, Organize their Studios here, work with Achievements and all that shit...
Focus on Content. when you visit .org it'S hardly imagineable that there are even videos hosted here.

.org was fit for 2003 but it's far from being fit for 2018, 2019, 2020 and so on. Don't rush it but work on a Relaunch for late 2019 / 2020 that makes a-m-v.org worth using again. Ask yourself what content editors deliver, how they can help you to form a better platform and create an envoirment that helps editors to spread their work, gives viewers the opportunity to enjoy amvs the most easy and pleasend way....I'd be happy to help you guys with branding, concept in layout

All I really feel like saying to Zest is, "I'm not dead yet!" (and that I found the removed comment in my quote somewhat offensive...)

The kind of things you are asking for, honestly, are things that very few people currently involved in the Org can do. I am an IT director for my labor union and I can't do the kinds of things you're asking for in the website. Not even close. We'd have to completely rewrite the entire site code. There are few enough coders as it is (less than can be counted on one hand, I would guess, I don't have the education, training, or hobby knowledge to even imagine much of what they do), and those folks aren't necessarily the same people as the Admin/Mod team.

What you seem to be asking for (give people the power to organize MEPs on the site, organize the studios here, work with achievements), you're talking social media platforms. You're talking YouTube/FaceBook/Instagram/Twitter levels of interaction and connection between website functions. Frankly, put, as a small group of volunteers, we just don't have that kind of ability. We don't have the money to pay professionals for that kind of work either.

It's great that you're willing to help, and if you DO have those skills, lay it on us. I am sure the admins would be interested in what you can offer. The reason Kireblue was discussing changing up the VCAs is because that's something we can do.

For me, I support the idea of opening it up wider. I would ask, as a representative of the offensive comment "old school" that we have a judge from my generation, but otherwise, I don't have an eligible video anyway.

As for whether the Org has value or not in its current state, I believe it does, but only if people use it to communicate. A lot of newer editors, and some of even the younger (in age) but older (in time spent in the hobby) veterans, can't seem to easily function on old style forums. Whereas for me, things like Discord or social media are for COMPLETELY DIFFERENT purposes than I use this forum for (this extremely long answer is a great example). I found that two or three sentences on Discord or social media platforms means people stop listening, or even complain! And in turn, they find forums too slow, too wordy, and not shiny enough. Digital immigrants (after all, I remember a time before home computers were really a thing except for the few) vs digital natives (and the differences between those of us using forums or even usenet in university, versus those that could barely talk before YouTube existed).

[Cenit]

I haven't read all of these walls of text. So what i'm writing has probably been said before. I think you should try to keep the VCA alive. I won't trust a pre-selection by judges though. This is why the JCA's never worked. I mean, i know that all contest are biased in a certain way. And editors should always take that into account. If i as a viewer get a nice list of AMVs in the end that's probably all i can ask for. But how about this:

Have submission forms. Everybody can submit videos of their own. All submissions get judged by the viewers in the first round. Maybe have some judges to submit good videos missing from the list. But every AMV entered should be allowed to participate in the first round, regardless if it's part of the catalog or not.

Also, please throw out some of the useless awards like Single-Anime, Trailer and Rookie. Also while at the org opening itself up to YouTube, how about fixing the site or building a new one? Just asking.

[Kireblue]

An alternative to the Crunchyroll format is the way that r/anime on reddit is doing awards. From what I understand, they have popular vote determine three entries for a category, and then a panel of judges selects three additional entries for the category. So half are by popular vote, and half are jury selected. Then voting happens like you suggested.

I think this is a good idea. To just have judges choose the entrants gives a lot of space for bias, and I think one of the good things about the viewers' awards is the community involvement.

I think that the best way is to find a way to people to propose videos ( i just can't came out with a smart idea btw), collect the most shared opinion and then let a jury( made by selected people from different countries) decide. In that way we can listen to every single people who want to vote, but be fair in the final judgment using ( I hope) super partes judges that should just think about the awards interest.

Open submission is probably the best way to go, since a form on the main page won't limit this to .org users the way forum submissions will. That said, even with a clever database there's quite a bit of management you'll need to verify info, release date, and sort duplicates due to misspells, bad info, multiple video locations, etc. At least some of those can get sorted against the org's own database, but expect this will take much more effort than in previous years.

Have submission forms. Everybody can submit videos of their own. All submissions get judged by the viewers in the first round. Maybe have some judges to submit good videos missing from the list. But every AMV entered should be allowed to participate in the first round, regardless if it's part of the catalog or not.

Since so many people have been suggesting this in various forms, I decided to rack my brain a little harder to find a way to combine your ideas into a compromise/ solution. Her'es what I came up with. Since allowing the community to vote on a list of every single AMV made in 2017 is impossible, how about I create a list that consists of only the videos that get posted in the suggestion threads? Whenever someone posts a link to "suggest" a video, I'll update the google form by the end of the day to include it. I'll also turn on the feature that allows users to change their votes if a video gets added later on that wasn't available at the start. The top 6-8 videos will automatically make it to the next round, and the judges will be responsible for nominating 6-8 more videos. The judges will also kick out any videos that get voted on by the community that absolutely doesn't fit a category (like a pure romance video getting trollishly voted on for action)

This idea is pretty much exactly what MadMegatax suggested combined with a manual version of spoondiddly's database suggestion. I think that it was Cenit's way of wording his post that made me think that maybe it wasn't as impossible as i initially thought. This will cause just a little more work on my part, but nothing more than what I was already prepared to do. So what do you guys think? or

[Mol]

It's interesing. Might give it a shot and see how it works (pretty hard to say without testing the waters on this website, but looking how many people actively post it might not go positive way, yet vca at same time drags some people in. It might be interesing initative to get active too I guess)

[spoondiddly]

Good idea.
It's probably the most reasonable thing to do, at the very least for this year. Obviously problems will arise, but that will also help narrow down what should and shouldn't be done in subsequent years.

Most important of all though is this discussion really should continue from after these VCAs into next year, if not publicly then privately. There's more than a few comments that other communities should get drawn in, but the only effective way to do that is to, you know, talk to them and stuff to find out what they want, need, and expect. It might also help to make up a laundry list of the pros and cons of other site contests, then narrow down how you want to be different.

[Kireblue]

Good idea.
It's probably the most reasonable thing to do, at the very least for this year. Obviously problems will arise, but that will also help narrow down what should and shouldn't be done in subsequent years.

Most important of all though is this discussion really should continue from after these VCAs into next year, if not publicly then privately. There's more than a few comments that other communities should get drawn in, but the only effective way to do that is to, you know, talk to them and stuff to find out what they want, need, and expect. It might also help to make up a laundry list of the pros and cons of other site contests, then narrow down how you want to be different.

yeah, I wish I had started this discussion sooner. I honestly thought that most of you were gonna reply that we should cancel the VCAs, so I hadn't been very enthusiastic about even bringing up the topic over the last month. I'm really happy that interest in it hadn't died out as much as I thought. But if I had stated the discussion sooner, I would have been able to propose the VCAs being done in partnership with AMVNews and AMVCentral. I'm willing to put in the extra work to make up for our late start, but I don't really feel right asking admins of other sites to do the same. Byt next year, I definitely plan on reaching out to more communities for further involvement and possible partnerships.

But in other news, I finished getting google forms to work on our forums! Here is a test of what the category voting forms could look like.

NOTE: The form embed feature is not currently supported on IOS. IOS users, please use this link instead https://goo.gl/forms/lX3DGlfB3MWmTRuH3

Spoiler :

[denisse791]

My English is bad, sorry
I am a follower of the a-m-v.org for some time now and I am new creating videos
My opinion is that this year the VCA 2018 awards are normal and in the course of this year 2018 will be discussed on this theme for next year
It seems very sudden to me to make such a radical decision in such a short time and just before the VCA 2018 begins.

[seasons]

I haven't read all of these walls of text. So what i'm writing has probably been said before. I think you should try to keep the VCA alive. I won't trust a pre-selection by judges though. This is why the JCA's never worked.

What were the JCA's?

[Kionon]

I haven't read all of these walls of text. So what i'm writing has probably been said before. I think you should try to keep the VCA alive. I won't trust a pre-selection by judges though. This is why the JCA's never worked.

What were the JCA's?

Judges Choice Awards, and I agree with Cenit. Every year they had issues. I even offered to run it one year, did a lot of legwork setting it up, and some people so hated how I did it that I actually just quit and said someone else should do it. That was one of my worst moments in the community, and I know that similar things have happened with the JCAs every year it was tried. No matter who ran it, or how it was structured, lots of people got angry, offended, and downright personally hostile. There are contests I've wanted to run (most notably my Generation Clash tag team video competition), BUT my experiences with the JCAs really soured me on it.