one thing could be to categorise the promoting videos... i have a gaming channel so making it game specific or game genre specific rather than just a basic promote your channel? eg i wouldnt watch vlogs or beauty channels i just like to watch tech channels and gaming
The
Media Section has that already:
Also you can filter threads by Prefixes,
here's a filter for Gaming threads.
or make promoting ur video on freedom more difficult to get.... meaning you cant just write a few things on the forum and then bam dump it in..
Sounds simple to do, right? If you have a way to make it more difficult go for suggesting one.
maybe reward people watching videos to allow them to post there own video? not sure how to monitor that because people could just watch a video for 5 secs....
Already thought of by Koala in one of those threads:
As for the promotion section we did have something planned with a separate set of currency where you would have to view/replay to a certain amount of videos before you could post your own. Although we have to be careful with YouTubes guidelines of creating forced views. We could even just rename the section video reviews where that would be more about feedback, people are require to review and give feedback to 5 or so videos before posting their own.
having the promote your channel area like a hot topic thing like reddit? the videos clicked on the most appear at the top? so have a hot, new, and rising list..
And there we are again. Sure, you can promote the threads left, right and center and spam them over the forums with ads
until someone complains about them. Still you cannot force anyone to watch a video and to give constructive Feedback. People come here to spam their channel alongside a million other Forums just to squeeze out 5 views from every site. We need a way to prevent that while also keeping people at giving Feedback and willingly watching a video. What I've personally started doing is send out some credits to people who leave Feedback and stuff that catches my eye.
You just can't force someone to leave actual Feedback on Posts, especially when there's
187 of them a month.
It's a hard topic and we're happy about anything to help solve it.