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The agony and the ecstacy of engineering
by oxdottir

Engineering brings us so many joys and so many problems. This channel is for discussion of the good and the bad of engineering, and even for times when people claim they are using sound engineering arguments and most certainly are not. It is also for discussions of the ethics of the use of engineering and the societal repercussions of engineering decisions.


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Engineering
A motivational poster for Oxdottir
posted by MarineGunrock 14 hours 43 minutes 5 seconds ago • 65 views
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/posters/7c3a/?cpg=ab

You better be wearing that Lady Speedstick.
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Engineering
The "Are You Sure" Dialog For Downvoting Has Disappeared!
posted by Zonbie 3 days 7 hours 51 minutes ago • 153 views
Ok,
Um, today I accidentally downvoted a video, videosift normally warns you you are about to downvote

http://www.videosift.com/video/Beef-and-Go

also

http://www.videosift.com/video/Star-Wars-Clone-Wars-animated-series-trailer

arse. So - I want to know - is this a change to gold star, a change in general, or a videosift "special feature" (or f**k up as it's sometimes known)

It does say "Be careful downvotig as you cannot change your mind" but at least if you accidentally upvote its not as bad as down voting...

Personally I want this back, or at least a profile option "Ask before Downvote" for example. Actually that would be cool

What does every one else thing?

Thanks
Ste
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Engineering
Suggestion: Filter setting for Region-blocking videos?
posted by doogle 4 days 57 minutes ago • 145 views
Perhaps there should be a setting for videos, like NSFW that applies to region-blocked videos.

I suggest:
-Users & uploaders can invoke whether a video is region-blocking (*region)
-The video will show up as unavailable to the user (greyed out?)

I don't know how often I've loaded a video only to think my computer is screwed up or sit through a few commercials to find out it's blocking the content. I'd definitely love to filter these duds out from my list, and would be willing to *tag/categorise them as *region blocking to save others the waste of time.
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Engineering
A few little tweaks I think VideoSift needs...
posted by arvana 5 days 7 hours 2 minutes ago • 242 views
Not sure if or when there's going to be a VideoSift 3.2 or 4.0, but I thought I'd mention a few things that I'd love to see on the site — some minor, others more significant.
  • This is a minor one, but it would sure be nice if there was the option to auto-select the 'Email me when...' checkboxes when submitting a video. I always select those.

  • After submitting a video, the 'Possible duplicates' page shows five existing videos on the site. I think this number needs to be increased now that there are so many videos in the database — it's getting harder to find the dupes.

  • The '< Modify' button on that page takes you back to the Submit page, but all of the previous data is gone (at least in my browser).

  • I'd love to see more done on the site with playlists. It would be great to see which playlists a video is in right in the expanda-playlist box under the video, rather than way down at the bottom of the page. Also maybe a playlist could be featured on the Hot page, based on which has received the highest number of recent votes?

  • It would also be great to have more listing options on the Channels page — I miss the days of being able to see all the channels listed by popularity.

  • The Unsifted Videos 'newest queue date' sorting is still broken.

  • I think the queue time should be shortened down to 2 days again. Videos never get any votes on the 'in between' day after they've dropped off the first few pages of the queue and before they appear in the Top Unsifted Expiring Soon. They just sit there taking up valuable space in our personal queue.

  • I know this has been raised before and shot down, but I think it might be time to reopen the idea of having some more 'social' features on the site. The reality of any large community is that certain personalities gravitate towards one another, while others gravitate in other directions. I think it would be nice to have a way for social groups to form within the site. Not sure exactly what form that would take, but I'd like to reopen the discussion.

Thoughts? Other ideas? Leave your comments here.

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Science
Spacy
Engineering
Magic Door Talk and Video Link ( and embed problems)
posted by iwastheturkey 1 month 1 week ago • 294 views
Bathroom Door Magic from absolutwade on Vimeo



Does anybody recognize this door or this technology? (also, why won't the Sift accept this as a submission?)

Edit: embed problem solved, door found in a CSI epidode.
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Engineering
New Channel: The Agony and the Ecstacy of Engineering
posted by oxdottir 1 month 4 weeks ago • 381 views
My new domain has just been activated: http://engineering.videosift.com/

It is appropriate for everything from cool gadgets to the policy repercussions of engineering. The channel is empty as I write, but I plan to go on a huge dive through old sifts and add them when I can. Please get me some good stuff!

Edit: Plenty stuff in there now (and not all added by me).
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