We need a better way to promote AMVs

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We need a better way to promote AMVs

Post by Miroku-san » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:54 pm

I'm trying to catch up on the AMVs I missed so I can give a vageuly fair chance to as many AMVs as I can but it's hard.

1. Downloading is so slow. Why can't we use bit-torrent, or at least bit-torrent the nominations?

2. Finding the gold among the dross.

The suggestion system (both methods) have not recommended anything worthwhile to me, and some of my favorite AMVs I just discovered by perusing the shameless self promotion threads.

I don't have time to read the message boards everyday (or even every week). Can anyone suggest a way to use the existing features to find some of these hidden gems?

I'm thinking we need a better way of ranking AMVs we watch. We have 3 separate systems: rank, star rating and the "break down" rating. The break down rating is good, but there's got to be a better and easier way of rating AMVs. One that allows "kindred spirits" to find each other.

Just some rambling thoughts while downloading more AMVs. :-)
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Post by SuperFusion » Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:00 pm

I think people would start leeching. =/
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Re: We need a better way to promote AMVs

Post by Castor Troy » Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:32 pm

Miroku-san wrote:1. Downloading is so slow. Why can't we use bit-torrent, or at least bit-torrent the nominations?
Irony. :?
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Re: We need a better way to promote AMVs

Post by trythil » Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:09 pm

Miroku-san wrote:I'm trying to catch up on the AMVs I missed so I can give a vageuly fair chance to as many AMVs as I can but it's hard.

1. Downloading is so slow. Why can't we use bit-torrent, or at least bit-torrent the nominations?
This is a common misconception of BitTorrent networks.

BitTorrent does not automatically mean increased bandwidth. If you are the only agent on the network, nothing will happen. If everyone in the network has very little throughput, you may not be able to get better than you would from a central source. Swarms are like that.

I usually get around 500-600 kB/s from the .org. Are you sure it's not your connection or an upstream router?
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Post by Jebadia » Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:10 pm

indeed, I get better speeds off this site than most torrents I d/l from.
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Post by Pie Row Maniac » Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:10 pm

Jebadia wrote:indeed, I get better speeds off this site than most torrents I d/l from.
Likewise.
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Post by ~Chrono~ » Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:13 pm

I think that what he's trying to say is to download a "bunch of good amvs" together in one torrent without spending the time of hitting the video info, then local, then proceed and download.

I'm against that. BAD BAD IDEA
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Re: We need a better way to promote AMVs

Post by madbunny » Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:17 am

Miroku-san wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to use the existing features to find some of these hidden gems?

I'm thinking we need a better way of ranking AMVs we watch.

I dunno, I think the system in place does a pretty good job. Between super search, star rating and breakdown the odds are good for finding something that suits your taste.

The top 'percentage videos' usually work fairly well if you don't want to search or anything, especially since you can go with catagories with those too.

Honestly, some of the best videos that I've seen that I might not have downloaded for sheer sake of not recognizing the creator have been through my free ops threads.
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Re: We need a better way to promote AMVs

Post by SnhKnives » Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:26 am

Castor Troy wrote:
Miroku-san wrote:1. Downloading is so slow. Why can't we use bit-torrent, or at least bit-torrent the nominations?
Irony. :?
more like oxymoron
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Re: We need a better way to promote AMVs

Post by Pwolf » Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:34 am

SnhKnives wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:
Miroku-san wrote:1. Downloading is so slow. Why can't we use bit-torrent, or at least bit-torrent the nominations?
Irony. :?
more like oxymoron
what do you mean... i get 400+kbs on bittorent all the time :P


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