Content Approval

Vipor asked today in the shout box why video approval was enabled on the site. I'm then led to believe he made a video about it. I haven't seen that but I appreciate him raising the subject.

Content approval WILL be in force on MoarVideo.com when launched. However, trusted users, users that are known to us or are long term sensible contributors, will have auto-approval on their accounts.

VIP members will receive priority in terms of speed for having their content approved but they too will have to go through the review process unless they meet the auto-approval requirements.

We may turn content approval off in the future on the MoarVideo.com site but when we initially go live, that feature will be in use. As the MoarVideo.com website will have staff and admins on site 24/7, there should be no silly delays in approving content.

Copyrighted material must not be uploaded to our future website but when a user uploads content they will be declaring that they have permission to do so or are the copyright holder. If we received DMCA complaints they well be dealt accordingly following DMCA guidelines. Repeat offenders will have their accounts deleted. We will have a DMCA agent/expert that will deal with such complaints. Admin will primarily be looking to prevent porn and other explicity material from going live on the site.

Every user who uploads content not suitable for minors e.g. foul and abusive language, language of a sexual nature etc, will be required to mark their videos 18+. This is so that those videos do not appear when a user chooses to turn on the family filter. Even if your video is just yourself using the 'F' word only once, we will require that such content is marked 18+.

Marking a video 18+ will not be seen as a bad thing like on other sites, we just want a solid indicator that some languge or content may be unsuitable, not just for kids, but also for adults who may be in the company of others.

Videos marked 18+ will still show up across the site as normal - they just wont show when the family filter is turned on. This may not be the case at launch but this will certainly be in force not long after, if not during the BETA stages.

On the current MoarVideo.tv project site we do have a content approval feature. From time to time we use this feature. We also make the site available to members only (logged in users) at various times. We do this for precautionary measures. For example if we believe someone is lurking/browsing the site using a sock account with malicious intent, then we may switch content approval on.

Decisions are often made that ordinary users do not understand but you have to remember that decisions are ALWAYS made for the benefit of the whole site and every single sensible user on it. Sometimes we will be unable to explain or comment publicly on decisions, when that happens we ask you to trust us.

To compare our project site with other sites would be foolish. We could have quite easily thrown something up in no time but we want to provide a very safe, robust and sensible environment for people who deserve it, you, our members.

The very reason I started the project site was to learn, to obtain feedback and to update people who want to be a part of something very special. To dive straight in at the deep end wouldn't be very professional. Obtaining input from the actual users before launch enables me to give them what they want and not what I assume they want.

Please feel free to post a comment on here or discuss the topic with me and other users HERE.