So I can share other people’s hard work, but not my own. No offense, but it seems a little too restrictive. I answered 19 threads this morning…my own time, my own dime…just trying to help out. On a couple of them that were related to menus, I shared a link to a video that I just made this morning on my own time that will probably net me 1 or 2 bucks on YouTube over the next 500 years..lol. But since it’s my YouTube video, I can’t share it…but if it was someone else’s video, I could share it no problem.
I’m not trying to cause a problem, but clearly this is not cool.
If you’re worried about abuse, I can respect that, but it would be just as easy for someone to do the same thing, under a different wp alias and promote their own site to get traffic or whatever, whereas, I didn’t hide that it was my site at all. I’m periodically active on wp helping people when I have downtime and now I feel like I’m getting lumped into a category I don’t belong in, simply because I shared my own tutorial instead of someone else’s. Why would I share someone else’s tutorial when I have my own? I’d have to watch their tut and read their content to make sure it was relevant and not malicious, whereas with my own, I can simply say “hey this will help, here’s a link the video will explain everything”. It saves time for me and helps the user faster…which I think is priority #1.
When I first started out with WP, I was directed to many tuts within forum threads and a lot of times those tuts were by the person who posted the link. When I saw a member who was answering questions a lot and they would share a link to a tutorial they wrote or screencasted, I was always stoked about it because I knew this person knows their stuff and can help me out.
I’m just trying to help out & give back on .org support and share the resources that I share with my own clients to help them out when relevant. That’s all I’m trying to do. But now instead, I’m having a conversation with not one, but two moderators about why sharing a link to my video tutorial with a wp user that needs help is not acceptable….kinda silly. The two of you could be helping another wp user and I could be playing Call of Duty: Ghosts right now or we all could be playing CoD together bombing on some campers…lol.
