This is my first Sift Talk post, so I hope I'm not bring up issues that have already been discussed. These are just a few little things I've always wondered about on videosift:
1. If you are not the creator of the video, but you are the uploader,is it appropriate to submit it to videosift? I recently lost a rare Tom Waits live video to the dreaded dead, and I had the thought that it might be worth it to back up videos to our computers that, if dead, would likely be hard to find again.
This could also be useful if you see something cool on another video site not supported by VideoSift, or a non-flash video, and you wanted to share it on the sift. If this were allowed, you could download the video, re-upload it to your supported video site of choice, and post it to the Sift.
2. A suggestion: the embed code validation button is one of my favorite things about 3.0, but don't you hate it when you think your embed code is valid, but it's actually a dupe? I think it could be cool if every time this happened we could submit that code as a duplicate code, and then the Sift would recognize it as a dupe the next time someone went to submit it. For example, say I want to submit video A. The embed code is valid, but when I go to submit it the possible duplicates page show me that my video is a dupe. If there was a feature that stored alternate embed codes, this wouldn't happen to the next person who comes along and tries to submit video A.
Being able to see a list of alternates would also save us a lot of time *undeading videos, and if there was a "View Alternate Sources" button, we could see other places to find the video if say, youtube was running slowly (when I had dial up, videos used to load faster on Google Video for some reason. Don't know if this is true for anyone else).
3. Just a little one: is it redundant to tag words that're already in the video description the same way it's redundant to tag words already in your title?
Again, I'm sorry if this has been hashed through before. I just wanted to put it out there.
1. If you are not the creator of the video, but you are the uploader,is it appropriate to submit it to videosift? I recently lost a rare Tom Waits live video to the dreaded dead, and I had the thought that it might be worth it to back up videos to our computers that, if dead, would likely be hard to find again.
This could also be useful if you see something cool on another video site not supported by VideoSift, or a non-flash video, and you wanted to share it on the sift. If this were allowed, you could download the video, re-upload it to your supported video site of choice, and post it to the Sift.
2. A suggestion: the embed code validation button is one of my favorite things about 3.0, but don't you hate it when you think your embed code is valid, but it's actually a dupe? I think it could be cool if every time this happened we could submit that code as a duplicate code, and then the Sift would recognize it as a dupe the next time someone went to submit it. For example, say I want to submit video A. The embed code is valid, but when I go to submit it the possible duplicates page show me that my video is a dupe. If there was a feature that stored alternate embed codes, this wouldn't happen to the next person who comes along and tries to submit video A.
Being able to see a list of alternates would also save us a lot of time *undeading videos, and if there was a "View Alternate Sources" button, we could see other places to find the video if say, youtube was running slowly (when I had dial up, videos used to load faster on Google Video for some reason. Don't know if this is true for anyone else).
3. Just a little one: is it redundant to tag words that're already in the video description the same way it's redundant to tag words already in your title?
Again, I'm sorry if this has been hashed through before. I just wanted to put it out there.
2.) I think that it's a great idea to store alternates that we could sort through to fix deads.
So I'm gonna post my question here, hope you guys understand.
Question 4. how long must you wait between each dead video fixes until you are awarded with another star?
I know it's frowned upon, but I know that many of you have abused it in the past to get to your ranks (tee hee!) and I just want to get that dang gold star and get it over with!!
Hint: If you click "Fix embed code" You will see a message on the next page saying "You will not be awarded..." if it's too soon.
2. I think that's a fantastic idea. Duplicates happen to all of us, and having them stored as backup embeds in case of deading would save quite a bit of time and effort.
3. I believe that searches include the description, but I'm not really sure about that one.
#2 is a *quality suggestion - why has no one recognized that yet? I love it.
#3 is correct - try your hardest to use tags that have words other than the title.
Some veteran users still repeat the exact same words in title and tags, though I suspect it's mainly due to laziness when sifting up a vid. I'll often ignore a vid if the title doesn't attract me, so a good title is key - use the tags for the less appealing but equally descriptive words if possible.
Funny karaidl
MUHAHAHAHAHA!!
We have a group on YouTube that all sifters are invited to join to pool their own uploads so others can post it for you.
http://www.youtube.com/group/videosift
and karaidl, that made me laugh.
For example, if after watching Conical Glass Illusion whose tags are "conical, glass, demonstration, trick, experiment" and I wanted to search for "illusion" videos, instead of just clicking the tag, I'd have to either initiate an advanced search or go to my address bar and type http://videosift.com/tag/illusion both of which are enormous wastes of valuable time.
So, everyone, please don't hesitate to put valuable terms in both title and tags. Also, please don't remove redundant terms from the tags of others.
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While we're talking about tags, everyone should be aware they can and should put spaces between words in a single tag. If you don't, two tags like "office, space" for an Office Space video cannot be clicked to find other vids.