Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25927581-20150710083601/@comment-25927581-20150914230558

First off to clear things up, it wasn't really a rule, but the old admin had a preference for them and so they were like unspoken standards. I remember once i wanted to change Tei In's sample video to one that linked to their channel instead of a reprint, but Bluemask wanted it to stay the video that sparked their popularity.

Second, going back and reading my post, I realize I worded it a bit weirdly.

As a dancer/artist myself, I know that many people's artistic flair evolves as time goes on. I don't mean we should change the icons often, but we definitely should try to keep the icons updated to how they usually look like. Although that's not really as important I guess. What I really was trying to get across is that some odorites (like Miume, Melochin, KimaPuri, Kozue..) started out dancing in their rooms with LQ videos and they all had one specific video that sparked their popularity. Now, they post HQ covers of them in studios, and still with iconic choreo. I think for those drastic changes, we should try to keep them updated instead of using that one old video that sparked their popularity because they still make iconic choreo now and we already link to those beginning iconic dances in the description. Since the videos are already linked and mentioned in their bios, the sample video is relieved a bit and may include a more recent iconic choreo. Like Jadelee's suggestion about updating Melochin's Happy Synthesizer to ELECT. And perhaps Kimapuri's Heart Beats to his remake (or something more recent with his new hair if he has anything solo and iconic). That way, people discovering new odorites aren't misled about the quality or professionalism of the odorite's videos. I like the idea to keep sample videos original choreo whenever possible.

I can try to see if I can code a template for NND videos, although it's true you'll need an account to view them so I'm not sure if the embed will actually work once the code is running.

I'm not sure about the blank video vs. collab video. I suppose we should first see how often run into that problem before addressing it.