Bumping due to a recent mention on The Tank Tribune regarding the Playlist update. I'd just like to ask a few questions for @TomFulp or the rest of the NG staff.
1- Unlike the legacy Collection pages, Playlists have a given author. How do you deal with 'ownership' over the following Collections?:
i- Series pages directly associated with a single author.
Examples: Eddsworld (eddsworld), Awesome (Egoraptor), Sick Animation (RomeoJR / Marc M)
ii- Generic Collection pages featuring works from multiple authors
Examples: Various holiday collections, Video game parodies, pop culture, anime, etc,
iii- Collection pages for events hosted by one or more individual authors.
Examples: Madness Day (Krinkels), Live Action Jam (BrandyBuizel),
Multiple hosts: Sketch Collab, Five Shades, (these two changed hands a few times)
iv- Pages for crews like Clock Crew, Lock Legion, etc.
Will you be transferring them to Playlists under the creators' account (such as Henry Stickmin to PuffballsUnited), or some other account? (such as the Newgrounds NG account, or one of the bots).
2- If featured Series/Collection pages are transferred over to the creators as playlists, what if they decide to either delete the list (but keep the submissions), remove undeleted submissions from the list, or fill the list with crappy or irrelevant submissions?
Do you have any form of protection against this kind of abuse if this is the case? (as opposed to regular Playlists)
3- There used to be pages for Flash Portal History that had their own Collection pages. Those moved to a page on the Wiki and given "portalhistory" tags. Is there a possibility of moving them back once they're part of the Playlist system, or if newer years would get their own Portal History?
Examples: 2000, 2006, 2010
I'm aware that a few entries have since been deleted (ie. Bug, MasterAardvark, Xombie, Numa Numa,), and a few others were scrubbed despite keeping the tags.
4- Will submissions still have featured collections on the side of the page?
Example: My game BB-Blade is part of both the Mobile Jam and Clock Day 2022 collections
Now on the topic of "genres" and "tags"
I still noticed a handful of movies without a given genre, such as this Sick Animation (and a few others). It has tags, but not a genre (I think it falls under "Comedy - Original")
Also a few Christmas 2005 stuff that have no genre or tags
IDK what I was supposed to do originally in this thread. There was a lot of reports for stolen or unsuitable submissions, stuff that now goes in the Elite Guard Barracks, and not for discussing submissions without genres or tags.
Post over!