Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-29512888-20180103145819/@comment-35405040-20180104001335

CAMERAwMUSTACHE wrote: I don't think this is necessary, especially since most watermarks are small and don't block content. I mean, more than half of the videos on the wiki have a watermark of some kind because YouTubers don't want their stuff plagiarized. Now, obviously, some watermarks are annoying like the giant "JUST DANCE POLSKA" one that was on all the Man Down vids or the giant "EpicMusicGamingKingContent" one on all the PS3 DoB vids. (I also dislike those videos because the color saturation is way off but that's another issue). If a watermark is small and doesn't block anything (like the AverMedia one, Prism Eagle's watermark, etc.) I don't think it's necessary to get a better video solely based on the fact that one has a watermark, one doesn't.

Another issue I want to raise is that a lot of watermarked content here is only available on that one channel (e.g., the PS3 DoB gameplays). Adding this giant maintenance template when they're won't be any suitable replacements will just have the template sit there forever. And to me, that's more of an issue than watermarked videos.

Basically what I'm saying is, if this was a decision thread I'd say

No offense to whoever came up with the template, it looks very nice and the Love Ward reference is clever. Agreed. Again, not to sound ignorant, but I don't really know why it would matter with most videos to make someone get rid of videos with watermarks on them. What if a video with actual HD footage and non high pitched or sped up music but it had a watermark? AVS would be the answer to that, but unfortunately, Ubi might take away his channel, so we don't really know what to do with that.