Some suggestions: Youtube embedded on forum & new emoticons

[Immenseman]

agreed with dave. i've always said no to new emoticons but to be honest, i'm going to go crazy and say i want new ones D:

[Martin]

Voted yes, as I think it would be quite a cool feature. However I strongly agree with David that they certainly shouldn't be autoplay, shouldn't be in signatures, and an option to disable them (if it's possible) would be cool too I guess.

I don't think it would cause any lag, and as mentioned would be a great addition in the music and spam forums, where a lot of links are posted. Loads of forums make use of youtube embedding and it would be nice I guess.


If ever this did happen, the videos would probably have to be quite closely moderated incase of bad content, but hopefully the Moderation team would be up for this.

[kk.]

i also agree with David.

Youtube moderates the content anyway, and im not sure but any graphic content and it wont allow you to play it unless you are signed into an account on youtube thats 18+. im not sure on that but i think thats right.

[Black_Apalachi]

I said No to the thread's poll for the same reasons that are said every other time this question is asked; primarily, it will become annoying when everyone is basically abusing the feature. However I would have voted Yes to the poll quoted below because I think that it is a nice idea to allow it in certain forums.

... Question:
Should youtube embedding be available in the music and spam forum?

Answers:
Yes
No

I'm not against revamping the smilies, but I am against just robbing them off MSN. I much prefer unique emoticons such as the ones we currently have (at least they're unique to me as I haven't seen them anywhere else). I also would prefer them to be a set, like the current ones, rather than a random mix and match.

[kk.]

I've been contacted about trying to make a unique set off emoticons. Just quickly copied some msn one I had, as well as ones posted in this thread, cleaned them up and made them match. They look quite alright.

I do plan on making a unique set as well though, if I can lol

[Seatherny]

YouTube idea has been suggested several times before, always been said no to and I agree, it shouldnt be added.

I like the current emoticons. However, if they were to change, please dont make them all kiddish. Keep them plain and simple, yet good (like the current ones).

[Jamesy]

Interesting suggestions

I personally like the youtube one however I think General Management have reasons behind not wanting this to be implemented (I may be wrong, but that was the decision made last time).

They're a bit out of luck with the youtube seeing as it comes as standard in vB4 and I'm not entirely sure you can disable it.

[Seatherny]

They're a bit out of luck with the youtube seeing as it comes as standard in vB4 and I'm not entirely sure you can disable it.

Just remove it from the coding. Shouldn't be too hard.

[Barmi]

Voted yes, as I think it would be quite a cool feature. However I strongly agree with David that they certainly shouldn't be autoplay, shouldn't be in signatures, and an option to disable them (if it's possible) would be cool too I guess.

I don't think it would cause any lag, and as mentioned would be a great addition in the music and spam forums, where a lot of links are posted. Loads of forums make use of youtube embedding and it would be nice I guess.


If ever this did happen, the videos would probably have to be quite closely moderated incase of bad content, but hopefully the Moderation team would be up for this.

They definitely should not auto-play. For users running a daily bandwidth limit, I'm sure they don't want to open a thread with a whole bunch of YouTube videos auto-playing...

Having YouTube videos embedded is a great thing, because it promotes user choice. Having YouTube videos auto-play is not a great thing, because it reduces user choice.

[Hecktix]

YouTube idea has been suggested several times before, always been said no to and I agree, it shouldnt be added.

I like the current emoticons. However, if they were to change, please dont make them all kiddish. Keep them plain and simple, yet good (like the current ones).

I think any new emoticons would probably be added to what we already have, I'm quite attatched to the basic ones so i'd hate to say goodbye to them

They're a bit out of luck with the youtube seeing as it comes as standard in vB4 and I'm not entirely sure you can disable it.

I like that