Brief notes cause I still have no decent typing ability...
Re: moderated membership, I think we might be able to start with unmoderated and see how it goes from there? My reasoning is that DW needs invite codes (speaking of which if anyone needs any I can send you one when I get back from holiday) and as a result trolls will have to go to a lot more effort re: finding some if they're not already on DW and it won't be easy to create new accounts to harass us. It depends on if they WILL go to that effort and also if any trolls are already DW people.
Main point I wanted to add was re accessibility - PLEASE have a policy of video descriptions or transcripts. It's not only that autocaptioning doesn't work very well but even with captions some people (*waves*) still can't watch or have a great deal of trouble watching video, so adding on some text only stuff makes it more accessible. And although transcripts are obviously best they can be a lot of effort and honestly speaking for myself having someone plonk down a video and then go "above: funny video of a cat" is MUCH less alienating and frustrating than someone just plonking down a video with no description whatsoever and no way for me to figure out WTF is going on in it - this second is the quintessential "Kazzes not welcome" sign for me, captions or not.
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Re: moderated membership, I think we might be able to start with unmoderated and see how it goes from there? My reasoning is that DW needs invite codes (speaking of which if anyone needs any I can send you one when I get back from holiday) and as a result trolls will have to go to a lot more effort re: finding some if they're not already on DW and it won't be easy to create new accounts to harass us. It depends on if they WILL go to that effort and also if any trolls are already DW people.
Main point I wanted to add was re accessibility - PLEASE have a policy of video descriptions or transcripts. It's not only that autocaptioning doesn't work very well but even with captions some people (*waves*) still can't watch or have a great deal of trouble watching video, so adding on some text only stuff makes it more accessible. And although transcripts are obviously best they can be a lot of effort and honestly speaking for myself having someone plonk down a video and then go "above: funny video of a cat" is MUCH less alienating and frustrating than someone just plonking down a video with no description whatsoever and no way for me to figure out WTF is going on in it - this second is the quintessential "Kazzes not welcome" sign for me, captions or not.