Pony Request: Metafilter Video Playlist!

February 19, 2011 10:44 AM

Is there a way to get a list of recent linked videos?

Youtube has basically replaced television in my life. This opens up a need that Metafilter nicely fills for curated lists of videos. I don't always have time to check the day's postings for new videos every evening. I'd love it if there was a way to be shown a playlist of recently-posted videos.

More thoughts:

Searching for the SLYT tag works, but leaves out all multi-video posts (like the recent awesome Crooked Still one, for instance), as well as all non-Youtube video links.

As long as I'm wishing for a pony, I'd like it if this list could include all videos referred to in discussions, and not just from original posts. To keep this under control, maybe all videos from discussion posts w/ more than 10 favorites, or some arbitrary number, or a number I could set myself... maybe same thing for FPPs - more than X number of favorites.

posted by Pickman's Next Top Model to Feature Requests at 10:44 AM (16 comments total)

We've considered this in the past and even built some prototypes at one point. Ultimately we decided not to do anything with it because we felt it would encourage even more links to YouTube than we already have. We also felt like having special features for a single external source might take something away from posts that didn't include links to YouTube.

That doesn't mean we wouldn't ever do something like this, but that's where our thinking was a year or two ago.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:58 AM on February 19, 2011

I'm not necessarily seconding the request, but I just commented in the Bjorn thread that I was wishing for a Vimeo animation podcast and a Vimeo curated list would serve a similar purpose. The concern about SLYT and SLV posts is a good reason why this would be a nonstarter, though.
posted by immlass at 11:07 AM on February 19, 2011

pb:

What if, when someone creates a post with a YouTube or Vimeo hyperlink, MeFi automatically asks the poster if he or she wants to add a "video" tag (if they haven't already). It'd be a nudge to make people tag things more accurately.

Then you can browse that tag to your hearts content.

The "video" tag could be anything really. Also, you could do it for other major video sites, too. Perhaps the ones that can be hooked into our profiles?
posted by defenestration at 11:22 AM on February 19, 2011

What if, when someone creates a post with a YouTube or Vimeo hyperlink, MeFi automatically asks the poster if he or she wants to add a "video" tag (if they haven't already). It'd be a nudge to make people tag things more accurately.

This is something we'd be less likely to do only because to start going down that road really pretty much leads to madness. Any sort of "Hey did you want to do ______?" nudging pre-posting other than the basics starts to get onerous really fast.

As much as I enjoy a lot of the YouTube content that gets posted here, I sort of agree with pb that preferencing it over all other sorts of content isn't something that seems really compelling.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:30 AM on February 19, 2011

It'd be a nudge to make people tag things more accurately.

I think anything that encourages one tag over another is kind of a non-starter for me personally. We do it at Ask MetaFilter with the 'resolved' tag, and that tag's use is completely off the charts. Any sort of auto-encouragement will pollute the organic nature of the tagging system, I think. And giving special treatment to a particular tag by creating features around it would hurt the system too.
posted by pb (staff) at 11:31 AM on February 19, 2011

Yeah, but a video file is always a video. That isn't subjective.

I do get jessamyn's point from a usability standpoint, though.
posted by defenestration at 11:32 AM on February 19, 2011

I made a Yahoo Pipes filter for YouTube-linked posts a couple years ago (almost exactly), based on suggestions from AskMe.
posted by scottreynen at 11:37 AM on February 19, 2011 [3 favorites]

Any sort of "Hey did you want to do ______?" nudging pre-posting other than the basics starts to get onerous really fast.

 I noticed you are about to post a grary comment. Would you also like to make an angry meta post?

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posted by special-k at 3:17 PM on February 19, 2011 [2 favorites]

I noticed you are about to post an ascii picture, are you sure it's going to turn out the way you expect?
posted by crossoverman at 5:09 PM on February 19, 2011 [2 favorites]

Kinda looks like a vagina just sayin' is all ya know heh yeah.
posted by two lights above the sea at 9:39 PM on February 19, 2011 [1 favorite]

Looks kinda like a.... a... I dunno.
posted by Askiba at 10:11 PM on February 19, 2011

special-k: "I noticed you are about to post a grary comment."
ugh, how inefficient. Thank god I have a program to address these situations.


C:\>gruntle.exe 863153
Compressing snark...

20% ... 60% ... 99% ... 95% ... 99% ... Done.

                 
  | u mad, lol? |
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C:\>_
posted by boo_radley at 10:55 PM on February 19, 2011 [5 favorites]

Metafilter: Kinda looks like a vagina just sayin' is all ya know heh yeah.
posted by special-k at 10:26 AM on February 20, 2011

Starts with a video pony request and ends discussing the features of ASCII vaginas.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:27 AM on February 20, 2011

Yeah - that-all makes sense. Nice ascii vagina, too.
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model at 1:21 PM on February 20, 2011

Starts with a video pony request and ends discussing the features of ASCII vaginas.

Just another regular day in Metatalk.
posted by special-k at 2:12 PM on February 20, 2011