[IxDA Discuss] Comments for our new video player

[Eugene Kim]

> anyway, everything seems to be there. i personally 
> would have liked to see related videos and ratings 
> integrated into the player and some of the social/virtual 
> feature icons a bit larger.  

The playlist is actually the related videos (in this example, more
videos for the Smash Bros. Brawl game).  I remember talking about the
name change with PM, but it was never implemented before launch.

Ratings are on their way, although our stakeholders can't decide
between thumbs up/down vs. 5 stars vs. 10-point scale.  Currently we
use all three depending on the content.  Most of our games and
entertainment objects have used the 10-point scale for many years,
thumbs are used for articles, and stars are only used for movies.
Most stakeholders prefer thumbs because they want to preserve what
little consistency we have (meaning they don't want to widely
introduce another rating system beyond movies), but one of the
stakeholders and our design group think we should use stars.  Stars
are commonly used for other video/movie sites and I feel they are
fairly easy to understand.

> i do find it a bit odd that the email video function 
> requires registration, however.  

The purpose was to prevent being a spam engine.  I feel it definitely
discourages sharing.  I inquired about CAPTCHA and dev told me they
haven't gotten around to installing it yet.  But perhaps there's a
temporary solution you can suggest?


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