Mixed opinions.
On one hand, I want the Newschoolers forums to be about stuff in skiing that people want to talk about. If that is videos, then so be it.
On the other, the forums are a terrible place to watch videos if you ask me. Its great that it gets some exposure, but its not easy to come back to once it falls off the radar.
Solving this issue has been what we put so much work into the video section for. The idea is to give a place that is a really great spot to find and watch new videos. Its not finished yet, and definitely has not accomplished this goal. You're probably still better off to post in ski gabber to get lots of views.
Of course, even if we perfect that... would that mean we should ban videos from SG? I sort of think no... but I'm curious to hear what the rest of you think.
As well, we could look at the idea of doing something crazy like... if you have a video that is dope and you want to share it in the forums, you can click a button out of the gallery and sort of 'move' the discussion into the forums. The video would still stay in the gallery system for easy indexing... but the forum thread would be synced with the comments and everything kept in one place.
The last idea there is based around blending the forum experience with more content. It already is really heavy in content in the forums, but I'm not sure if this would go over the top.
Tell me what you guys think about vids in SG.