Comments for "New things happening around the place" Talk at VideoSift.com

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:16:17 -0700

Explain more how Scrape Up works.

By marinara

marinara (http://lies.videosift.com/member/marinara) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:46:23 -0700

1. it presents the existing feeds that some of the reddit
Fark
Digg
GameTrailers
College Humor
LiveLeak
sites provide in a easy to read webpage.

Those sites provide a protocol for webpage authors like dag to incorporate into new webpages. The protocol consists of new videos.

2. It automates the first step for the submission of new videos to videosift.

By Crosswords

Crosswords (http://lies.videosift.com/member/Crosswords) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:48:09 -0700

So when does VS start selling shares on the stock market ?

By Fjnbk

Fjnbk (http://lies.videosift.com/member/Fjnbk) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:00:12 -0700

Our slow takeover of the world begins...

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:16:21 -0700

ScrapeUp on Mashable:
http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/videosift-scrapeup/

Yay!

By Obsidianfire

Obsidianfire (http://lies.videosift.com/member/Obsidianfire) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:02:00 -0700

Hey dag (or lucky) I was checking the varocms page, and I have an idea. When you do a command to a sift on VS here, you do * whatever. But, you can upvote with a single click. Wouldn't it be easier to make this

Possible *Invocations • more info
discard • sticky • unsticky • promote • quality • nochannel

list of commands here into links, in which it would send a message to ol' siftbot here, and he could reply with "user did this comment, this happened" without us sifties having to actually post a comment when half the time all we are doing is just sending siftbot a command? I think it'd be easier, in my opinion. What do you guys think?

By K0MMIE

K0MMIE (http://lies.videosift.com/member/K0MMIE) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:55:41 -0700

You feel that grime? That's corporate, it doesn't wash off.

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:16:41 -0700

>> ^Obsidianfire:
...without us sifties having to actually post a comment when half the time all we are doing is just sending siftbot a command? I think it'd be easier, in my opinion. What do you guys think?

It's definitely not a bad idea, but working invocations into comments is part of the charm and fun of it. Making it a mechanical operation takes away it's uniqueness and makes it... well, more mechanical.

By K0MMIE

K0MMIE (http://lies.videosift.com/member/K0MMIE) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:03:58 -0700

>> ^lucky760:
>> ^Obsidianfire:
...without us sifties having to actually post a comment when half the time all we are doing is just sending siftbot a command? I think it'd be easier, in my opinion. What do you guys think?

It's definitely not a bad idea, but working invocations into comments is part of the charm and fun of it. Making it a mechanical operation takes away it's uniqueness and makes it... well, more mechanical.

Is it a better idea to go to a video, like it, see there are 10 comments in there? Go "Oh boy discussion" only to find it's 4 beg commands, 4 siftbot retorts, and one actual post?

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://lies.videosift.com/member/gwiz665) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:37:26 -0700

I would love to see multiple *begs rolled into one once the video is finally sifted, like "begged for x times" or some such.

By Obsidianfire

Obsidianfire (http://lies.videosift.com/member/Obsidianfire) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:14:07 -0700

>> ^lucky760:
>> ^Obsidianfire:
...without us sifties having to actually post a comment when half the time all we are doing is just sending siftbot a command? I think it'd be easier, in my opinion. What do you guys think?

It's definitely not a bad idea, but working invocations into comments is part of the charm and fun of it. Making it a mechanical operation takes away it's uniqueness and makes it... well, more mechanical.

I don't feel the same way myself. We can agree to disagree.