Zoos, Circuses, Safaris: A Gallery of Captivity

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(06-03-2020, 08:52 PM)peter Wrote: SHADOW

As a general rule, discussions about interactions between captive big cats and bears on forums are dominated by posters guided by preference. One result is sound observations and conclusions often are lacking. Another is most, if not all, debates affect the climate sooner or later. This is the main reason we decided against them. 

If we want to discuss interactions between big cats and bears at Wildfact, severe moderation is the only option. Mods not only need to be capable (able to read and understand body language). They also need to be willing to invest time, as debates on big cats and bears usually draw a crowd. 

We could discuss the options in the mod thread, but I don't think we need an outcome to remove crap videos and posts. Wildfact is about good information and respect. That will never ever change.

Here was now some kind of misunderstanding. I wasn´t writing about bears and big cats. My point was in it, that should we have some kind of idea in it, that what kind of videos here are shared. There are fanboys.... and fanboys, creating more or less edited videos with more or less all kind of explanations. 

To take examples, Adam Jeeves is obvious lion fan and he doesn´t hide it. Not at all. But his videos often have decent length so, that people can see more than 1-2 seconds of some interaction. He too edits time to time off things he doesn´t want people to see, but usally there is quite ok clip and not too much unnecessary propaganda in the middle of video. Then there is for instance this Wang Chooyang (or something like it) who prefers tigers. He likes to talk a lot, but in the middle of his videos there is also a moment, when some incident is there with no talking etc. So people can easily watch only relevant part and pass parts, in which he tells his opinion. My opinion is, that these videos are quite ok to share since propaganda parts are easy to ignore.

Then again there are these posters, who edit really heavily videos with 1-5 second glimpses from here and there if that is needed to make some incident to show what uplader/editor wants to make people to see. This video to which I now reacted is in that category. 

This is a bit a line drawn in the water in some cases, but I would prefer to see more videos, with more clear contain. Not so much "hardcore fan" videos with as much one sided propaganda as there is other content.

Debates are another thing then again. Reply