I appreciate that the new moderators are embedding all of the YouTube videos. It makes the forums much more usable. But I think that the fact that you are doing this is making a lot of the posters lazy. They know that they dont have to do it, because you will clean up their mess. Which in turn makes more work for you. Instead of: Last edited by salsamd; Today at 11:10 AM. Reason: embedded video I propose: Last edited by salsamd; Today at 11:10 AM. Reason: I was too lazy to read the FAQ and learn how to embed YouTube videos ;-) I think that a gentle ribbing like this will be pretty effective. People will see it often, and theyll hopefully read the FAQ before they make their next post. And surely no one will make this mistake twice. Youll want to create a cleaned up FAQ, which addresses this issue better than the forum post announcing this feature. This FAQ should be linked to in the Reason footer. And hopefully, you can address some concerns raised in there about how to add the ability to go full screen from the embedded video. Just a thought.
Nice Solid idea. Make it so Number One! ...wait, I guess that's me. I'll take care of this. Not sure if one can tag in the "Reason" box, but it will be easy enough to addend a reminder within the content of the post.
