Update News and Tagging Guide

Submitted by CritikalMind on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 08:16

Good news everybody!

Voting on comments no longer freeze the page.

Also there seems to be some confusion about how some of the features on this site work, so I thought I'd take some time dispel some myths and set the record straight.

Comments on the Week are still here, they’re just on the left hand side in your User Account Navigation Box.
You do not get points for voting on comments.
You do get points for voting on videos and other content.
Videos with 15 votes AND a rating of 3 stars and above get promoted to the front page, with the exception of Admin Promoted videos. Admin Promoted videos will be marked in some way as yet undecided.
Promoted videos with 25 votes and a rating of less than 3 will get removed. This does not work for videos whose average became less than 3 after 25 votes. These will be removed manually.
[Disclaimer: This is still a bit buggy, let us know if you catch any vids with 25 votes and less than 3 stars]
The filter bar above is designed to work with the two sets of options provided. For example you may choose Top Rated for this week, month etc etc. Similarly you can select Most Viewed videos for the past month, year, etc etc.
You will find videos that are weeks old in Most Commented, Today because that video received the most comments today.
“Categories” function has been removed, as we believe the tagging system is much more flexible and allows you to specifically mark the content you upload.

Speaking of tagging, many of you have not been using the tagging system properly, so please from now on, follow this guide:
You have uploaded a video about The Fuzzy Bunnies, a documentary on bunny rabbits featuring Sir David Attenborough.

DO:

Use keywords
Use commas to separate keywords, not spaces. Spaces do not count.
Try to capitalise each word (we’ll be changing those already accepted with lower casing, so don’t feel bad if the system doesn’t let you).
Use alternate or related keywords, especially keywords that relate to the content of the video. For example if the documentary was about rabbits eating carrots, then please add “Carrots” to the tag.

Capitalise everything

AVOID:

Using words with three letters or less eg. “to”, “be”, “at”.
Using special characters eg. ! = + \ < ?

Incorrect Tagging:
“THE fuzzy BUNNies a documentary on bunny rabbits SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH”
“The, fuzzy, bunnies, a, documentary, on, bunny, rabbits, David, Attenborough”
“THE, fuzzy bunnies, a, documentary, document, bunny, on, rabbits, rabbit, rabs, Attenborough, David”

Correct Tagging:
“Fuzzy, Bunnies, Documentary, Rabbits, David Attenborough, Carrots”

Following this guide will enable the Related Content to work properly.

I hope this answers some of your questions, if you have any more, please feel free to comment underneath and I, or one of the Devs, will try to get back to you (or post another announcement like this).

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Comments

Yay, Spiked gets better and better each day. Thanks awesome admins.

Submitted by M_aureus on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 14:28.

Nice update, i am just happy to get an answer on the freezing issues.

Submitted by Vanguard34 on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 16:36.

Tested the freezing issue by voting you up. It works!

Submitted by hell_viper1 on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 00:33.

Did Flynn let you use his "own" porno as a test video?

Submitted by Vuarra on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 19:45.

Any word on image galleries?

Submitted by hell_viper1 on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 00:36.

How does the contact feature work? Does it send a note to the other users registered email or what?

Submitted by pEAGER on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 02:17.

Yes, but we're trying to move to our own mail servers. Things are a bit busy right now tho, so it's put on hold.

Submitted by CritikalMind on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 02:18.

Awesome just got more awesome!

Submitted by mgreeny on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 03:23.

I have an issue I hope a moderator could help with. Everytime I go watch a video on any page but the first page when clicking back I am taken back to the first page. For example I am on page 2 and click on a video. When I click page back on my browser or hit the delete button I am taken back to the first page. This happens no matter what page I am in (save for the first page since I am already on that page). Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated cause I would like to catch up on some of the videos you are posting. Thanks in advance.

Submitted by Doncdownes on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 22:50.

Right click and open the video in a new tab, that way you will have your place saved on which page you were on. I believe that will solve your problem. Boom, winning.

Submitted by lawngnome909 on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 23:08.

At least now we won't have to see phuckin' phanff's video's on the front page with 1* ratings and 40+ votes :p Feels good to vote on comments with no delay.

Submitted by Violetninja420 on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 09:56.

SWEET Just a suggestion: Can you guys make it so we can see who posted the video before we click on it?

Submitted by Cheeseschrist on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 15:29.

Been on our to do list for a while. I'll see if we can implement it soonish.

Submitted by CritikalMind on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 11:07.

great job guys really i have a suggestion: i was thinking about the old spike drawings and thought to myself how could we ensure a drawing? A: if we were more directly involved think X = server cost and Y = donations and if we were to have a remainder = Z we could use that residual 'Z' towards the drawing of course those who donate have their choice to either donate to the server or the drawing and of course they get points for both maybe even more points for the drawings category also the prizes don't have to be extravagant unless of course we have a generous month maybe we could also vote from a list of prizes just a thought note: this would take place when we get more situated

Submitted by m6sozac on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 13:32.

And donors should get more draws /unbiased opinion

Submitted by hell_viper1 on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 15:38.

Just noticed that long words extend the end of the box rather than auto-formatiing into a pre-determined size box... just a note, not really a problem at all.

Submitted by mgreeny on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 18:23.

Thought I'd let you know: I've seen quite a few videos that have 15 or more votes and a high rating but don't get promoted.

Submitted by Quixotic on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 03:02.

15 or more? Or more than 15? Our current system only calculates whether or not a video makes it to the front page after [exactly] 15 votes (due to the size of our user base). If the system is not promoting a video after exactly 15 votes then we definitely have a problem, I'll be keeping an eye on this from now, but I'm fairly certain it's working the way it should be.

Submitted by CritikalMind on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 10:00.

Here's some of mine, all are more than 15 except for one that is exactly 15. http://www.spikednation.com/content/language-window-human-nature http://www.spikednation.com/evideo/slow-loris-and-tiny-umbrella http://www.spikednation.com/node/1020 http://www.spikednation.com/node/788 All of them except for the exactly 15 one are old though so maybe there was a problem that is fixed now.

Submitted by Quixotic on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 11:28.

I've checked, 2 of the four you have listed there were admin promoted already. I saw the slow loris and the language window vid on the front page a while ago too (nice uploads btw). Don't know why the two older ones weren't promoted, but I've marked them for you now.

Submitted by CritikalMind on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 12:22.

Oh, o.k thanks.

Submitted by Quixotic on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 00:39.

Will we ever get to submit news articles? I like this one http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/14/anal-probe-surgeons-study

Submitted by Paleoclime-no.9 on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 15:13.

I think it might be cool to get more points the higher your upload is rated. maybe even little to no points initially. that would ensure quality over quantity.

Submitted by Champ on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 22:17.

That's a great suggestion. Elegant way to solve uploading shit just for the points.

Submitted by JohnnyRandom on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 19:09.

I would like this. Make it happen. ;)

Submitted by Cheeseschrist on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 20:38.

is anyone else having problems with checking to search if a video has been uploaded prior to you uploading yourself? every time i've tried to the last dozen times or so, i can't. it won't come up for me. :-/

kind of hoping my shit is obscure enough to not be a repost, at this point...

Submitted by gelflingpower on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 17:29.

Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that. I noticed it at like 1am last night when I was doing a search for a video. I'll check with Flynn, see if he knows what's up.

Submitted by Violetninja420 on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 18:08.

thanks! :)

Submitted by gelflingpower on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 18:12.

I was wondering if people on here were just getting smarter or if someone finally taught them the effective way to tag videos...it appears it was the latter.

Submitted by Grothesk on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 06:50.

Thanks..Im not new to the site (spikedhumor was a favorite for years,I was quite quiet there aswell)

I thought id start posting and commenting,Sharing my views and opinions..I hear alot of this >

"Best part is the comments"

And i Agree..

I dont know if this is the propper place for it but if you dont mind awansering something im confused about,I'd be greatful.

Yes I have mental problems I wont go into so lets just say make the awanser "for dummies" Please.. >

My question is "How do I post a pic or gif with out fail..Post these as responces Instead of text??"I really like to know what im doing before I attempt it (rescearcher bug I cought).

p.s. I will apply what Ive read here.. Thanks for the info.

Intently noted*

Submitted by Mr_Jynx on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 16:30.

There are two different ways to I post an image or a GIF. They are as follows:

The easiest way is to simply right click on the image/GIF you want and choose "copy image". Then come into the comment box here and either hold down control and hit "V" or right click inside the comment box and click paste.

The other way to do it is to right click on the image/GIF and choose "copy image URL". You can also find this information by finding the source site where the image comes from. For example, let's use http://www.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vwGWK.jpeg

You then click the "disable rich-text" link at the bottom of the comment box here on SpikedNation.com and then type the following:

<img src="http://www.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vwGWK.jpeg"> which gives you this:

Doing it in this fashion you can then change the sizing of the image. For example, if we wanted this image to be smaller we could type this:

and get this:

Submitted by Grothesk on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 01:50.

That was helpful..Im greatful thank you.

I was rescearching this a bit while awaiting responce here and read something about the bandwidth from the site used to host the pic\gif in question..I dont think its an issue otherwise you would have mentioned it,Im sure you know what im talking about.

Hats Off