Where is the Vision for UGC?

Broken Kid wrote:
I'll just speak to this issue: Three videos were posted in response today and approved within 1/2 hour of posting. Things were slow when the site relaunched, but now the vids are approved multiple times per day.

immortal1 wrote:
That's great! But I should have been more specific. My view numbers always skewed higher on YT over revver and on YT they were higher obviously the earlier the response was approved. It's more important to have them approved quickly on YT then here.

I've used a lot of question marks in my last 2 posts- I'd like to see it all addressed. There's no "give it to me in a nutshell." But "the question" is the question that encompasses all other questions: What is the vision? What is the plan? The TOS is about legality and ownership. What I'm talking about is motivation.

What motivates people to make videos?
1) Fun! It's not fun when no one watches. At some point each UGC producer has to ask themselves how many subscribers or views do I need to make the time, effort and sometimes money worth it? In the C's overall vision for UGC how will they help promote UGC to gain views/subscribers?
2) Money. I don't know how much money really can be made but in the C's overal vision for UGC what opportunities are there for monetization? (this one has been touched upon in the TOS obviously because ownership is a factor)
3) Prestige. Maybe someone wants to make an in character cameo ala Jerry or have their name mentioned as a crazy code cracker does C's overall vision for UGC provide such opportunities and how?
4) You want to be a pro! You have an original series and you want to stake your claim in the internet world. How does the C's overall vision for UGC help makes this happen beyond just providing another place to host videos?

I'm sure there is more but my mind is racing from this energy drink. You get the idea. If you look at ARG like interaction it's clear what role it plays because there was a process. They integrated OpAphid, it didn't work out, they hire writers with ARG backgrounds and write puzzles elements into the story rather than having an ongoing game. There's been no process for UGC. We've been operating under the same mandate since the Nov 24th post.

ETA:
I sort have been developing this HBO analogy in an IM sidebar.

Right now the lonelygirl15 YT acct. is dormant. That's 100,000 subscribers sitting and waiting. They have to do something with that right? I mean I don't think the fans would accept anyone else posting under Bree's screename.

Seems the logical thing to do would be to turn the acct. into a lonelygirl15 productions acct. I mean on this site all the lonelygirl15 videos are on the same vid stream. All character interaction is done on the forum. Each character has their own MySpace. Why have multiple charactet YT accts?

They could post all the lonelygirl15 vids on one acct, plus all the KM videos. I'm pretty sure Spencer vids would get more views than he does now.

And if they were to come into an arrangement with an original user generated non lg15 related series posting to the lonelygirl15 productions acct would be where they could help most.

Just throwing it out there.

Ok now I'm done...
for today...
maybe.

A full discussion of TOS issues including several more posts from immortal1