DragonFireKai

You know, for a little while, I was scared that i was going to be the only one opposing this. I would have looked rather foolish getting blotted out 66 to 1. But I'm glad that not only I wasn't the only one who voted against, but some promenent members of the community share my reservations. In the end, I don't think this policy will destroy the site, or even make a noticable impact, but I stand by my comments I made.

It'd well up, but it'd be nothing compared to the flooding coming in through the window. Because the amount of water coming in is only enough to replace the air leaving. If you lose one cubic meter of air a second, you gain one cubic meter of water a second. One cubic meter's flow, spread over that whole pool, is next to nothing, they could've swum out easily. Chuck was a moron who didn't think straight.

But it's the only point I still disagree with, and I'll continue trying to figure out a way to convince people of that. You bring up seepage, but that's a fact of life that all music hosting services create, Soundclick, MP3.com, Myspace, all of them. But that doesn't prevent them from extending this courtesy to their artists. The seepage from p2p distribution isn't close to what the distribution is from the source here. Most of the mixes that are removed from here, wind up being hosted at one of the OCRemoved sites, but they're known to be distinctly different from the real thing to be found at OCR. And as Dhsu said, just because you can't do everything, doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can.

Yes, but it'll eventually slow down. There are some people who still associate Virt with OCR, but not near as many as who associate, say, yourself with OCR. Think of it as a sink with a drain, and OCR is the faucet. As long as your mix is on OCR, the faucet is running, filling the sink. You take your mix down, you shut off the faucet. Now, there's still some water left in the sink, but as people delete your songs due to space constraints, changing their library, or hard drive crashes, that backfill flows out. Eventually, your association with OCR will be minimal. But you have to shut off the faucet first.

Funny you should mention Myspace and Soundclick. I'm fairly sure Myspace music allows you to pull your Work too. I'm not trying to be an ass here, but I think Soundclick is a lot closer to what OCR is than a physical record. Particularly if neither OCR nor the Remixer gain any profit in the exchange.

There's so many to choose from!

Would you prefer obscure background manipulator month?

Ummm... Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Rhinoa, Aeris, Dagger, EVA, Meryl, Zelda, Kairi, Elly, Schala, Marle, Pearl, Dais, Tifa, Emma Emmerich, Mina, Katt, Farah... Essentially every female character ever put in a game has been in distress at some point.

Damsel in Distress month?

Sometimes the people with no attachment to a situation have the clearest perspective.

June is Silent Protagonist month?

No, it's so that the staff can gauge what people feel is wrong with the policy. Telling them that you think they got it right doesn't help them a whole lot, as it's implied by the vote. A no vote on the other hand, could apply to any aspect or combination of aspects of the policy, and that needs to be clarified to be helpful for the purposes of overhauling the draft. What I don't understand are the people who vote yes, then express reservations about the wording. That just strikes me as bizzare. Also, AP posted his reasons for his vote in the other thread, so please count his vote.

They mapped every enemy to your character's levels in FFVIII, save in the Lunatic Pandora and the Islands closest to Heaven and Hell. Hence why you could tear through the game at level 12 by spamming draw points. I think the answer lies with the seal method that was used in Star Ocean: The Second Story. Add an optional seal that can be removed from the final bosses that increases their power vastly. Unlocked Gabriel was a bitch. Legend of Mana had a similar method with it's No Future mode.

Not during the invid saga. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRtGv9upokI

Genesis Climber Mospeada was released in the US as the third story arc of the original butchered in translation anime, Robotech.

The first one is Ronin Warriors, the second one sounds like Genesis Climber Mospeada.

It is redundant, and I'm fairly sure that some of the remixers who got their mixes ganked during the lockdowns would have prefered to keep them up.

Well, DJP, you have absolute power over this site, you can change the policy whenever you want, to whatever you want. Weather or not you use that power, and in what manner you use it, remains to be seen. But your comment about the wiki is a good step here. I'd like the grandfather clause put into the draft. Other than that, I've already laid out what I do and don't like about the draft extensively, and laid out my suggestions for changes, so I won't repeat them here.

I could accept that. I'd like unrestricted right to exit, but it seems like that's not going to happen. Giving an out in the event of policy changes is an acceptable compromise.

The way the current draft is structured, the site can sieze a mix that a remixer no longer wishes to have posted on the site. I'm a firm believer in the right to exit, and that's being taken away here. So if something comes up that a remixer doesn't want to be associated with as the site evolves, they're trapped.

It's the fact that I don't expect people I don't know well to hold to good intentions. And to be honest, I don't know a single person on this website beyond what they present on the site. So when I look over an agreement I see being set up to be legaly binding, I hold them to the same standard as I hold everyone else I don't know. I tell all the members of my platoon to look over everything they sign, even if it's from the Army, because while I don't expect the Army to hose me, I really don't know who's sending what down the pipe, so a measure of caution is needed. In God I trust, all others I check.

But someone else might, personally, I really don't have a whole lot at stake here. I don't have a lick of musical talent in my body, so I don't have to worry about other people distributing my songs, because no one would want to. But it's a moral point to me. I just don't think that it's right for one side to have all the power in this context. It's not something I'm going to quit the site over, but if the site staff is going to ask, I'm going to voice my reservations.

Well, I guess I'll be the first voice of the loyal opposition here. I applaud the effort taking place here, but I don't think the one sided termination rights in favor of the site are morally correct, or needed. It's close, but I can't in good conscience give it the go ahead with that clause attached.

This whole set up is more red tape than some people want to deal with. But as I've stressed earlier, it's important to get it as right as possible while it's still in draft phase. I've got another idea, set what's essentially a term limit on the content policy, say, six months. Spend six months with the policy, see how it works, then in six months open up a new discussion with the community to see what they think is working, and what they think is ate up. Then fix the points that are causing problems and keep what's working.

I apologize for any insult I caused with my poor choice of language. Not my intention. I didn't specificaly mean in the event of your death, or even the event of you leaving the site, I simply meant the process that you've already engaged in, of empowering other individuals in the communities to excercise authority on your behalf. The more degrees of seperation you put between yourself and the work itself, the less control you have over how things are going. You can say pretty much anything you want, but you still rely on the chain of command to carry it out, and that can get garbled on the way down. By having documented, publicly-viewable standards on how you want aspects of the site to work, you minimize creep throughout the site, and it does give a sense of security to the general masses on the site. I think you could probably crank it all into an excel spreadsheet pretty easily, depending on how specific one wants to get in terms of distribution catagories, and at that point, a canned E-mail could provide a checklist that the remixers simply fills out and returns during the submissions process.