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representation on AMV.org
2006-01-25 22:59:31
right....this may sound slightly ridiculous, but I believe it makes sense.
Online communities very much mimic real life and real societies. There's a light-wieght administation that's something of a government. They maintain, police, and advance their communities. However, there are few complex online communities. Basically, the more active members a community has, the more complex the governing body, and the tools they use, must be. AMV.org has lots of functionality geared towards AMVs (which is nice), but little towards member influence and assistance.
Those who maintain the stucture of amv.org now are rather selfless in doing so. However, were they to disappear, I believe there'd be hundreds who'd be prepared to carry on the torch. That thought leads me to think that this place has become somewhat of a society that truely mirrors a real society. It's a fairly persistant community, as opposed to those that have huge member fluctuations or die off from poor management or other detriments. There are currently 474,792 members on record. W/o being able to see any stats, I'd guess 10% of that are constantly active and around 33% will visit amv.org at least once a year. That would mean that there are somewhere between around 50,000 to 150,000 members who could be considered active enough to be influential within the amv.org society. That's a sizeable amount. Such a persistant population could use more structure, since I doubt this site was initially designed to administer tens to hundreds of thousands of members.
I believe a helpful change to amv.org would be to add a government. Divide the members up somehow and let them vote on a representative. That representative will carry on their constituents' comments and requests to the top governing body. This way, the representative can choose what he/she thinks is most important and pass it on to people who can make a difference. For pressing issues, the representatives could discuss and debate when deciding and maybe voting on an issue. These issues might be things like the most imporant site update or how to alter existing functionality or events of the site.
I believe the pros for this are many. One of the most important things that will happen is that power and responsibility will be more broadly delegated. This means that Phade won't have to sift though hundreds of forum topics to find out if there are any large issues to deal with. Instead, people within a certain district (or whatever we call them) will voice their opininion either directly to their rep or within a forum specifically for their district's discussion. That rep can then sift through and find issues that are most pertinent to be addressed by the governing members.
Implementing this type of system upon the amv.org architecture might be kindof tough. To begin though, it would be enough to know which district everyone was in, who represents that district, and the ability to vote on a representative. Then the forums would have to have a section for each district to talk inside of. Most likely, there would be a subsection of that where only people from its district could be allowed. After that is in place and functional, we could slowly enhance that element of AMV.org so that eventually we'd have a fairly functional and effective government.
I suppose this is a rather progressive idea, but I believe it would be a impactful and enhancing step for amv.org to take. -
VCA
2006-01-25 22:17:50
I sit here staring at the VCA videos listed in the action category and wonder "do they really think I'm gunna try?". That's not saying I haven't tried in the past. However, this year I'm not even going to bother. There are several reasons for this.
First, VCA has never been a very reliable process to find the best videos. More than ever this year, it's always impossible to find the videos you enjoyed. Granted, there's a tool available this year to help find your videos, but it's just not good enough. Due to that inconvienence, I do not think many people vote and therefore the results are inaccurate. I have to think the majority of people who vote are cliques formed around certain AMV creators. With that, it makes voting solo pretty much useless.
The second impedement was mentioned already. There is just no good way to find your favorite video within the vast lists of vids each category contains. Yes, certain videos are highlighted based on the degree of favoritism from you, but that vid is amongst hundreds of others. It makes it a chore to vote.
Finally, the process goes on forever. You vote for categories. Then you vote in the first round, second round, and final round. By that time over a month has passed and you really don't give a crap anymore as to who's vid is best. You're too tired at trying to keep up with all the dates and keeping track of which of your vids make it. It's really such a bother.
The VCA needs to change. Either it needs to be completely refactored or more steps need to be taken to slice time off the process. I know this isn't the best place to state my concerns about this matter, but the forum isn't much better.
It's a rare occurance to have your opinion heard on the forum unless you are very active on it or very well known. I'll continue this thought in the next entry. -
banners
2005-06-15 10:57:41
I'm so sick of all these banners. I've become so fed-up and critical of them that normally only 1/50 ever get a "yes" vote from me.
Why not make these banner contests limited to certain days? Perhaps do something as dramatic as having a biannual contest. Hold a banner contest a week after a new logo comes out and hold a contest 6 months later. Limit everyone to two banners as well, because if this keeps up we'll have more winning banners than we will AMVs. - AMV.org 2005-05-27 03:54:06 thank you amv.org, for without you I'm not sure what I'd do.
- VCA is faulty 2005-02-25 23:47:59 there's is no possible way even representation picked those final contestants. In nearly every category I see the same 2 or 3 videos. What a f*cking waste of time. That said, I do applaud the AMV.org administration for attempting to make a better VCA this year, but sadly this VCA was a failure.
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