As a regular of the Guides area, I've noticed that recently more and more guide-writers are just posting a video as their guide.

 

While I don't find it as helpful on a forum as a text-based guide, I understand that people do learn this way, but something about it just makes it different from our major guides.

 

I'd like to see a new subforum added to the Archive of Wisdom specifically for video-based guides. This would include basically the guides where someone plugs their Youtube video and there is no other information in the guide post. The author may spend time giving feedback, but the original post remains as a video. I think it would be more organized and helpful to have the video-only guides and the more text-based guides separated, as some people find videos much more helpful than text, and vice-versa.

 

Thoughts? :^_^:

+1

Agreed. I find it disappointing when i open a guide and only see a video embedded =\

I've noticed this lately a bit too, I don't think it should be too much trouble to create a separate subforum for Video Guides and it would be useful for organizational purposes. Either that or perhaps making it mandatory to have [Video] in the title of threads that are video only guides.

I actually like this idea.

 

In order for it to be a full guide, it can include videos but it must have a primarily text component with the video supporting it (for AoW etc).

I actually like this idea.

 

In order for it to be a full guide, it can include videos but it must have a primarily text component with the video supporting it (for AoW etc).

 

 

Yes, there are some really good guides that make use of both video and text (the Tormented Demon guide in AoW being a good example), and that's perfectly fine. If it's just a video though, a sub-section would be nice. :D