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Allow guests to view tutorials

Started by Guest_Xth Cannon_* , Sep 20 2006 02:29 PM

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#1 Guest_Xth Cannon_*

Posted 20 September 2006 - 02:29 PM

This is just a suggestion, as I have seen it work quite well on websites in the past. If you make tutorials able to be viewed by the public (unregistered guests), it will allow the website to submit them in to large tutorial directories on the internet. (An example being good-tutorials.com)

NeoCodex has some top quality tutorials, so if various members did submit them to a lot of directories, the board could be seeing more visitors who come for the tutorials and stay for the community. Right now, I would say over 95% of members join up for the programs, which is a shame seeing as though that is not all NeoCodex is about.

If it is successful we might get some new members with new expertise in different areas etc. Just a thought.

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#2 the_hitman

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 02:41 PM

It's a good idea but members from other sites might come and steal the tuts and post them on their website saying they made it.

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#3 Shin

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 02:44 PM

QUOTE(the_hitman @ Sep 20 2006, 06:41 PM)

It's a good idea but members from other sites might come and steal the tuts and post them on their website saying they made it.

Yeah, I think it would lead to a lot of ripping, too.

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#4 Mr. Hobo

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 02:57 PM

If you kept that state of mind open source projects wouldn't exist. I'm for it

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#5 Shin

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 03:03 PM

QUOTE(Mr. Hobo @ Sep 20 2006, 06:57 PM)

If you kept that state of mind open source projects wouldn't exist. I'm for it

Do you mean open source projects for the public or open source projects among the codex programmers? I have no problem if there is a project for programmers only - I would consider all the programmers here pretty trustworthy, so I would feel comfortable sharing code. But it's different if suddenly that information were to be released to anybody.

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#6 Sweeney

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 03:04 PM

A lot of the GFX tutorials are watermarked.

And besides, all the public tutorials are just as easily ripped by a malicious user registering and thieving...

I think this has more upsides than downsides...

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#7 Freddy

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 03:28 PM

I agree because that way we won't have as many leechers. I don't like leechers.

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#8 cx323

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 05:54 PM

i think they should be viewable by everyone, it's not exactly difficult to sign up to rip a tutoiral, and by letting anyone view them we may get new members

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#9 Nick

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 07:21 PM

QUOTE(Joe @ Sep 20 2006, 07:04 PM)

A lot of the GFX tutorials are watermarked.

And besides, all the public tutorials are just as easily ripped by a malicious user registering and thieving...

I think this has more upsides than downsides...

It's quite easy to remove watermarks.

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#10 Silk

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Posted 21 September 2006 - 09:33 AM

I agree with this idea proposal.

Like Joe said, if someone was going to rip tutorials, i'm sure registering an account wouldn't be much of a barrier in their way.

It'd certainely help bring in different traffic to this site, and i'm all for it.

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#11 sarah.

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Posted 21 September 2006 - 09:35 AM

I like the idea, might give people a reason to make some more tuts too.

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#12 Noitidart

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Posted 21 September 2006 - 09:50 AM

Hmm me like me think bout it!

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#13 Guest_Xth Cannon_*

Posted 21 September 2006 - 01:03 PM

I don't see why the discussion of ripping came up. Ripping can occur whatever way people wanted. People could just sign up and take the tutorial. I, as a programmer don't care if someone steals my tutorial, for I know that more people are going to credit off my work.

I think most programmers and designers who submit their tutorials would be for this, seeing as though, if it goes successfully there will be a large audience for their hard work.

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#14 ShadowLink64

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Posted 21 September 2006 - 07:08 PM

Ok, well... if you've seen it work at other places before, I guess we can look into it.

* staff discussion being done *

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#15 Guest_Xth Cannon_*

Posted 21 September 2006 - 09:46 PM

QUOTE(ShadowLink64 @ Sep 22 2006, 01:08 PM)

Ok, well... if you've seen it work at other places before, I guess we can look into it.

* staff discussion being done *

Yes, but then you need to get the advertising team or whatever to try and get the tutorials on as many websites as possible

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#16 Waser Lave

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Posted 22 September 2006 - 07:55 AM

You could always just give the programmers an option of whether they want to make it public or not when they post the actual tutorial, then it's the best of both worlds.

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#17 Guest_Xth Cannon_*

Posted 22 September 2006 - 12:19 PM

QUOTE(Laser Wave @ Sep 23 2006, 01:55 AM)

You could always just give the programmers an option of whether they want to make it public or not when they post the actual tutorial, then it's the best of both worlds.

That would be a great option

No room for argument there.

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#18 Freddy

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Posted 22 September 2006 - 02:06 PM

That is an awesome idea.

We could have a selection area where you can choose wheter the tutorial will be Public or Member Only or Higher sections if needed.

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#19 Shin

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Posted 22 September 2006 - 05:10 PM

QUOTE(Laser Wave @ Sep 22 2006, 11:55 AM)

You could always just give the programmers an option of whether they want to make it public or not when they post the actual tutorial, then it's the best of both worlds.

Laser, you're brilliant!

I like that idea.

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