Let's Remake Let's Play! A discussion on Reforming/Remaking the LP Rules

Those rules look good.

Given that "Screenshot LP" is not defined, is there any particular reason to specifically call out Video LPs? At no point in the rules do you ever make a distinction between them, except for mentioning that there will be a Megathread for video, and a Megathread for screenshot. The inherent assumption is that the medium is irrelevant.

Also, you should probably change the wording for Megathreads. You mention there's only two, but then in the description you talk about a megathread dedicated to a specific game. Given the overall description, this shouldn't ever be the case.

It's mentioned because there were questions about them. And they used to be treated differently. Now the rules are explicit that they are not different.

Clarified the 'two' to 'two dedicated'. The rules state that any megathreads would not be for a single game but for a franchise. We already have these now (Space Quest 1-3, Ben Jordan 1-8, etc.) . I'm just laying out rules for how they work in the future .

Questions were asked about them because there's still a line that calls them out. If the rules are supposed to be agnostic about the medium (which they should be, to prevent this issue in the future), then there's no requirement TO specify any. Especially equating one specific type to one that had not yet been referred to at that point. That's the important point, really.

Basically, I don't see how the term "LP" doesn't inherently cover all mediums. And if you DO want to specifically call out video, then you need to define what you're equating it to first. By not specifying either, though, you inherently mean all forms.


Edit: Also, it's a minor thing, but on the subject of future-proofing, I would recommend at the very least not putting (Falselogic) after every mention of the forum moderator, if not specifying who the moderator is at all. The forum moderator is advertised on the forum, afterall, and in the event that there is a second moderator, or you get replaced, there's no need to edit so many places just to change the name.

It's a specific change for TT LPs. I think it should be explicit, at least at first, that video LPs are treated like screenshot LPs. It's not antagonistic, it's just to make it clear.

But what change? The current rules' only reference to video LPs is about personal megathreads. So the current rules already make video and screenshot LPs the same thing.

And again, even if you DO want to make that distinction, you still need to define screenshot LPs first. It's just proper writing; you can't equate one thing to another without defining the other first.

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Seems like the discussion dropped off, here...

So does that mean we found some sort of consensus?

I'm down. Let's test these out and see what happens.

Yeah, we're going to be moving forward with this.

Though someone jumped the gun a little, I'm looking at you TirMcDohl, I'm going to say that the new rules will be implemented on June 1st. This will coincide with the locking of old video threads, a new NWIOT video LP thread (with links to old video megathreads) and hopefully an index for the current Mini LP thread. There will also be less mention of my name in the final set.

Cool?

Cool

You just jelly over my shorty shorts.

Just kidding, my bad.