Captain.Heroin
Bluelight Crew
I honestly think the sub-forums that the staff chose for embedded video were spot-on. 

I still don't know whether I like it in NEMD, takes a lot more scrolling, but you can see how it works better there because people will only be posting music videos
i don't particularly like it in NEMD, unfortunately. to me, the size of the preview window is the problem, it's too big imo. if it could be halved, at least, it might be a bit better. there's massive amounts of scrolling to do at times and furthermore some of them don't even have the track name and artist nor the OP bothered to type it in. it looks messy with hugely over sized preview windows which don't even tag the track despite the 5 prior to do for the most part after you've been scrolling for 5 minutes in the "what are you listening to?" thread.
I'm lurking the lounge at work, and someone embeddes some inappropriate video. Nudity or whatever is seen on the cover screen of the video. That's just one scenario where allowing embedded videos in the Lounge would be hurting someone.
It would be a nightmare to moderate since all of the content of the videos would need to conform to the guidelines, so mods would have to view all videos from beginning to end to be sure of that. That's why we only allow them on certain forums where there is less of a chance of videos against guidelines being posted.
The top priority of this website is harm reduction. We allow embedded video in the forums that promote this to make videos containing HR info easier to view. Other areas of the site that we are allowing it are forums where videos are commonly linked already, and have not caused problems for the moderators.
That is weak sauce excuse. We have plenty of links to videos and I can tell you I don't watch them all from start to end.
the software does not allow us to specify it on a thread-by-thread basis. the granularity is by forum.what if you guys did it on a thread by thread basis like for polls? The music thread lasts for a couple of months so it isn`t like allowing it for that thread would take tons of time for whoever has to allow it to happen... If it is abused, swing the hammer.
As a senior mod you obviously don't have a life....Then start doing it.
Oh ok. Thanksthe software does not allow us to specify it on a thread-by-thread basis. the granularity is by forum.
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