Obsidianfire
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Collapsable profile comments (Geek Talk)
posted by Obsidianfire 1 day 13 hours 48 minutes ago • 37 views
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Sifter's Coffee House
posted by Obsidianfire 3 days 4 hours 29 minutes ago • 96 views
Although the girl that is used as filler on Sifter's Coffee House is attractive, I was wondering if we'll ever get the coffee house back? I wasn't too active on VS when it was up, and now I yearn for a place to just talk. What's the deal?


Okay so here it is. (Howto Talk)
posted by Obsidianfire 4 days 21 hours 27 minutes ago • 152 views
I totally am in love with this site. (Don't tell karkarlee XD)
The problem is, I'm also totally poor. Living as a web designer doesn't rake in the cash when you're freelance and no one knows who the hell you are. So I ask THEE a question.

How else can I help out with this site other then donating? How can I make lucky and dag rich bastards without giving them any of MY money? >.>

Suggestions anyone?







I can't sift this. :( (Rocknroll Talk)
posted by Obsidianfire 1 week 5 days ago • 166 views
I can't sift this. I really want to share it because it's full of awesome, and I don't have a blog, so it's going here...
... more inside ...

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UPDATE -Nine Inch Nails album "The Slip" Available for FREE (Rocknroll Talk)
posted by Obsidianfire 1 month 1 week ago • 183 views
Nine Inch Nails is giving out their new album for free as a thank you for being loyal fans. If you're not a loyal fan, well that's on you, but you can download the entire album in many different formats for free from:
http://theslip.nin.com/

Almost forgot!
Free Nine Inch Nails: Lights in the Sky EP download
http://dl.nin.com/lightsinthesky/signup



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Avatar complaints (Geek Talk)
posted by Obsidianfire 1 month 1 week ago • 274 views
All avatars on this site are turned to a JPEG. If you could allow PNG file format with transparency I would jump for joy. Any transparency turns the entire image black after upload because of the JPEG reformat. Secondly, the increase in JPEG artifacts is like a redneck with a car on his front lawn. It de-beautifies the rest of the site. I move for allowing PNG file format with transparency. It's a smaller filesize and higher quality.

PNG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics
JPEG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg
Comparison: http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/graphics.html

As you can see, PNG is a lossless compression. It's usually smaller than GIF in filesize (and sometimes JPEG), and is patent-free. Rarely will you come across an old enough browser to not support this file format.
Browsers that support PNG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers#Image_format_support

So, benefits..

Smaller file size then GIF, and sometimes even JPEG. Lossless, so the file looks sharper, looks less junky. Supports transparency, so thumbnails look slick (and damn can they look slick). Melts in your mouth, not in your hand.

Yay or nay? Comments? Rebuttals? Support?







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Congratulations!
posted by Obsidianfire 1 month 1 week ago • 233 views
To me! Everyone is making these grats posts for people hitting milestones. Well I finally made bronze star. Took me long enough. Anyway congratulations to me for being so slowly awesome!

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Seems we have a problem.
posted by Obsidianfire 1 month 2 weeks ago • 224 views
Moving this video to <username>'s personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

I'm seeing this way too much recently all over Videosift even on great videos. Comments? Suggestions? Experiences? Reasons as to why so many videos aren't getting the votes they need unless they are * begged/pqueued?</username>



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Error in FAQ regarding Star Power
posted by Obsidianfire 1 month 3 weeks ago • 161 views
Sorry if this has been already brought up but I noticed an error in http://www.videosift.com/starpower which states that you need 2 powerpoints to promote which with the new changes on the site it no longer applies.

Exhibit A: "Probationary Member

* Limited to one video in the queue
* May be banned for breaking VideoSift rules and guidelines
* Self promote1,3 - use *promote (see Gold-100 below) on a post of your own
* *.kill1 - permanently discard your own video
* *.beg2 - send one of your own personal queued videos to Beggar's Corner

1 may be performed by any member on their own post
2 requires 1 Power Point to use
3 requires 2 Power Points to use"

Exhibit B: "The following invocations are still only available to the usual star levels, but now require 1 Power Point for use:

* *.quality
* *.promote"

It doesn't seem like that big of a deal but it caused some confusion when I was trying to figure things out so I figured it would be brought to attention.

(p.s. I'm still a little confused about this)
















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