I was pondering the same thing.

I just made a change (that I won't publish anywhere unless it becomes really necessary because it's so complicated to explain), so if you want to view a dupeof'd video, bypassing the redirect, you can add "noredirect" to the query string of the URL. For example:
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Slip-n-Slide-made-out-of-Asians?noredirect

This is the only good thing I could think of because it's more important that incoming links land on live content than we natives easily see killed posts. If anyone has any better solutions I'd love to hear them.

I posted this in Dags latest blog post, but it might have been missed by other so post it here as well:

>> ^lucky760:
Made it so when a dupeof'd video detail page is loaded you are redirected to the live video instead.


That's nice Lucky, but what if we need to look at the killed video? I can see someone wanting to see the comment thread or to verify that was duped correctly... Also I'd like to see a siftbot comment left in the original video documenting the dupeof so that we have a proper trail and have knowledge of the event.

>> ^lucky760:
Made it so when a dupeof'd video detail page is loaded you are redirected to the live video instead.


That's nice Lucky, but what if we need to look at the killed video? I can see someone wanting to see the comment thread or to verify that was duped correctly... Also I'd like to see a siftbot comment left in the original video documenting the dupeof so that we have a proper trail and have knowledge of the event.

We can do this but not with Apache. I can just make the requested page do the forward.

The only complication is detecting where the "correct" video is, and I imagine I'll do it by scanning siftbot's comments in the post.

Will add today.

[edit]
Added!

In reply to this comment by dag:
Could we do this as an Apache redirect?
In reply to this comment by dag:
Oh bummer, you're right! We need to have an auto-redirect on dupeofed posts.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

http://blog.videosift.com/dag/Dave-Barry-Likes-Asian-Slip-n-Slides

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

http://blog.videosift.com/dag/Dave-Barry-Likes-Asian-Slip-n-Slides

>> ^Duckman33:
Sorry, think this is a dupe of mine that got only 3 votes. Now how does that happen?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Japanese-Slip-Slide
Can someone check it and invoke if necessary?


*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Japanese-Slip-Slide

Thanks for the promote

In reply to this comment by MycroftHomlz:
*promote

>> ^rottenseed:
>> ^SSIops:
aw man, this video begs for audio! I keep imagining that funny sound effect that's used for slip/falling in those old Hannah-Barbara cartoons.

Oh how about this?


That, good sir, is freaking awesome.

>> ^SSIops:
aw man, this video begs for audio! I keep imagining that funny sound effect that's used for slip/falling in those old Hannah-Barbara cartoons.

Oh how about this?

>> ^furrycloud:
I love the look afterwards "you may have won the battle...but I'll win the next one!"


Actually, it was more like, "How the hell did that puny human knock me down??? HE IS JEDI!!!"

1. You should have known this was a bad idea.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Fire-In-The-Hole
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bellydancer-accident-and-a-funny-one-at-that
http://www.videosift.com/video/Slip-n-slide-of-fire
http://www.videosift.com/video/Always-set-your-ebrake-or-else
http://www.videosift.com/video/Do-Not-Drink-Then-Drive-Or-Else

2. Bad ideas in retrospect.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Caravan-problem
http://www.videosift.com/video/Boogie-Boarder-plants-his-head-in-the-sand
http://www.videosift.com/video/UF-Student-tasered-at-John-Kerry-Speech
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-is-what-happens-if-you-talk-on-your-phone-at-a-concert
http://www.videosift.com/video/pwned-by-a-water-ride
http://www.videosift.com/video/slideplayaccident
http://www.videosift.com/video/Didnt-go-exactly-as-planned-Ouch

3. Potential bad idea

http://www.videosift.com/video/A-message-for-those-who-want-war-with-Iran
http://www.videosift.com/video/You-will-be-the-hit-at-any-party-when-you-bring-a-lion

4. Knowing what your doing is a bad idea

http://www.videosift.com/video/Old-Man-Goes-Nuts-In-Car-Wash

5. Looks like a bad idea

http://www.videosift.com/video/Jump-in-the-waters-great
http://www.videosift.com/video/Low-Budget-Tattoo-Removal
http://www.videosift.com/video/Redneck-Carnival-Ride

Tags for this video have been changed from '40, foot, slip n slide, slip, slide, stop, motion' to '40, foot, slip n slide, slip, slide, stop, motion, noodle time, wolf parade' - edited by calvados

dupe radar pinged. dunno if i'll find it

edit, got it. dupe

http://www.videosift.com/video/Slip-And-Slide-Taken-To-The-Next-Level

edit again. only semi dupe. same place, looks like different video of different event though.

Your comment was perfect. Made me laugh.

In reply to this comment by MINK:
oh. my. god.