Wetlook World Forum

>Youtube videos can not be crawled automatically, because the keywords of youtube do not work very well.

Very true, we were the first ones to created a Youtube collection site 4 years ago for wet & messy fans, and when EuroWAM TEAM and I created theWambank site 4 years ago, we created a special section on theWambank for automatically imported Youtube videos, so we created such a site for importing wet and messy Youtube vids 4 years ago, but as Jurgen said, automatically importing wetlook videos from Youtube based on keywords does not well at all. In theory....it is dead easy to create a site to import Youtubes, cos all you need to do is set up a simple blog site or create your own site, and then subscribe to the RSS feeds section on Youtube, then Youtube will automatically feed all "authorized" videos based upon the keywords you set up in your RSS feeds subscriber settings. By "authorized feeds" I mean...all Youtube users have their own profile, and Youtube users have an option in their profile to "allow your video to be fed to external sites...yes or no"...and by default the answer is "yes"...so unless a Youtube user changes it to "no"...then defacto Youtube has permission to feed those vids to any external site that wants to display it. All good in theory....but the reality was, when EuroWAM TEAM and I set up these feeds, we got bombarded with hundreds of videos per day from Youtube....90% of which were not relevant to wetlook (cos the word "wet" brings you all kinds of mainstream crap that are not wetlook)...and EuroWAM TEAM and I only have 2 other moderators (Waterspaniel and AnthonyX) and our site was being flooded with incoming garbage from Youtube every day...and no time to moderate it all and sort out the 5% of good stuff from the 95% that was garbage.

So basically....we ended up getting 200,000 Youtubes on our Wambank site....and most of it was pure junk.

So...last year...EuroWAM TEAM and I decided to re-design the Youtube section of theWambank site.....so we deleted all the 200,000 Youtubes that were fed automatically...and redesigned the Youtube section to make it a manual "suggest a youtube" button.....cos folks post Youtube links every day to Nigel's forum...so we created a new system where folks can now suggest their favorite Youtube links and store them on thewambank instead.....so now we have a new "suggest a Youtube" section....with only 884 vids at present....but now they are all relevant and not garbage....see here...

http://www.thewambank.com/onlinevideos.php

So....we have such a site and feature for youtube collectors now available at theWambank.....but to be honest....not many people are using it, cos most folks still prefer to post their Youtube links here on Nigel's forum instead........so you can't change people's habits....all we can do is offer people an option and it is up to them whether they wish to use it or not.

As for the other thing Jurgen mentions

>It looks like people only want to support pictures and videos in this forum here and not in any other modern technique system.

Well....thats true for us too, cos EuroWAM TEAM and I have created lots of amazing features at the Wambank (30,000+ free pics in our Celebrity Picture Galleries, thousand of free videos, a free website blogging system) and our website design is state of the art, but most folks just prefer the very simple tree structure format of this forum instead. We had hoped that if enough people supported our wambank site and our traffic was high, that this would attract advertisers, and then if we received ad revenue support, then we could do what Youtube does....i.e. Youtube gets ad revenue support, which is how it can provide all videos for free, cos it has ad sponsors that pay for it's servers and overhead etc. But sadly that has not happened, and whereas there are dozens of banner ad sponsors who support this forum and the UMD forum, we have very little support to cover the costs for our servers and bandwidth hosting....so we get support from some fans who buy credits on our site, which is much appreciated, cos that is what keeps theWambank going, plus the many great video contributors who upload stuff etc.

Thats the irony, most wet fans just prefer something simple and not something sophisticated that is state of the art design.....so we have learned not to try and design fancy things that the fans may not want....and now we just listen to the fans...and try to  make new sites that give the fans what they are looking for.

MK