Stark
02-09-2009, 12:29 PM
Hi all,
First of all, it was great to see that so many Users actually care about Apacheclips, I have received a lot of good and very valuable mails, one thing that became very apparent was that a lot
Of you fellas have some very strong feeling what this page should be.
The problem is of course that you cannot please everybody but I will give it my best shot anyways.
The question was: Should we here at Apacheclips allow Jihadist movies (movies that show IED’s, attacks from the Insurgent side etc.)
We had many arguments that spoke clearly against these movies, as in:
They are propaganda from the enemy and or I feel personally hurt and distressed seeing American and Coalition soldiers hurt or even killed, the jihadi pages don’t show “our” movies as well and many more.
On the other hand we had also a lot of very plausible Argument to show these clips as in:
No censorship on Apacheclips the name is not without any reason uncompromising military clips, it is hypocritical to celebrate the death of enemy soldiers but feel all chocked up about our own casualties.
War has many faces and we have to show them all here.
If people do not want to view the movies than why do they click on them?
As I have said before it is not possible to please everybody and like any community I have to pretty much go by my gut feeling and whatever the overall community wants.
The page poll has also shown without a doubt that the overall majority of members don’t mind or want to see these movies, however I have a feeling that most of the members not necessarily want to
See these clips but are more concerned about the aspect of censorship, as another member rightly pointed out, if we go ahead and disallow movies from the Insurgents side what is next? Should we also
Disallow movies from WW2, North Korea and or Vietnam?
So what are we going to do?
In order to please everybody I have come to the conclusion that the best thing for this page would be to give every member the option to block the insurgent Category, this will work pretty much as the filter any movies that are categorize as Mature Content, you as the member will have the option to turn this option ON and will than not see the thumbnails and movie clips in the Insurgent category.
I still don’t fully understand why people cannot just choose NOT to view these movies if they don’t want to, but hey I’m not here to judge.
This code change (like any other mod) will cost me money, not much but trust me things are adding up, the server alone cost me a lot of money every month but hey I am not complain, If you want to contribute to this mod, or future mods (as the option to edit your own comments, this is going to come up pretty soon) feel free to use the PayPal Donation button on the front page.
This mod will probably be ready early or middle next month, so in the mean time can I ask everybody who feels strongly about these clips NOT to view them?
That is all
Stark
First of all, it was great to see that so many Users actually care about Apacheclips, I have received a lot of good and very valuable mails, one thing that became very apparent was that a lot
Of you fellas have some very strong feeling what this page should be.
The problem is of course that you cannot please everybody but I will give it my best shot anyways.
The question was: Should we here at Apacheclips allow Jihadist movies (movies that show IED’s, attacks from the Insurgent side etc.)
We had many arguments that spoke clearly against these movies, as in:
They are propaganda from the enemy and or I feel personally hurt and distressed seeing American and Coalition soldiers hurt or even killed, the jihadi pages don’t show “our” movies as well and many more.
On the other hand we had also a lot of very plausible Argument to show these clips as in:
No censorship on Apacheclips the name is not without any reason uncompromising military clips, it is hypocritical to celebrate the death of enemy soldiers but feel all chocked up about our own casualties.
War has many faces and we have to show them all here.
If people do not want to view the movies than why do they click on them?
As I have said before it is not possible to please everybody and like any community I have to pretty much go by my gut feeling and whatever the overall community wants.
The page poll has also shown without a doubt that the overall majority of members don’t mind or want to see these movies, however I have a feeling that most of the members not necessarily want to
See these clips but are more concerned about the aspect of censorship, as another member rightly pointed out, if we go ahead and disallow movies from the Insurgents side what is next? Should we also
Disallow movies from WW2, North Korea and or Vietnam?
So what are we going to do?
In order to please everybody I have come to the conclusion that the best thing for this page would be to give every member the option to block the insurgent Category, this will work pretty much as the filter any movies that are categorize as Mature Content, you as the member will have the option to turn this option ON and will than not see the thumbnails and movie clips in the Insurgent category.
I still don’t fully understand why people cannot just choose NOT to view these movies if they don’t want to, but hey I’m not here to judge.
This code change (like any other mod) will cost me money, not much but trust me things are adding up, the server alone cost me a lot of money every month but hey I am not complain, If you want to contribute to this mod, or future mods (as the option to edit your own comments, this is going to come up pretty soon) feel free to use the PayPal Donation button on the front page.
This mod will probably be ready early or middle next month, so in the mean time can I ask everybody who feels strongly about these clips NOT to view them?
That is all
Stark