You have omitted the largest tag in the tag cloud "funny."

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Well, I'm open for discussion on that, but I sort of think funny is almost too general, plus too subjective.

I'd say that videos that are posted with the intention of making people laugh (whether they actually succeed or not) would fit quite nicely under a "funny" category.

Daily Show and the Colbert Report can be filed under politics.videosift.com, wouldn't you say?

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Yeah, definitely we could just leave it at that. But we get so much Stewart/Colbert and I think there was even a request for Daily Show/ Colbert Report category.

One suggestion I have is to setup a general purpose CNAME alias for *.videosift.com. The benefit being you can then manage all of the subdomains with PHP -- not Apache.

Maybe the Daily Show/Colbert Report videos would be better put into politics.videosift.com and tv.videosift.com, depending on which is more relevant.

I personally think it should be done by tags, so old ones, get included, but I suppose you could write a little script to update the dB based on existing tags. I also think the tags should be edittable by others to throw extra or correct ones on. This seems to be the default behavior on most sites.

As far as categories, what about "tv" and "ads". There seems to be a lot of commercials submitted, and tv could be for any tv show content, whether colbert clips, fam guy, etc. Also there are documentaries and shorts (animation might be too general)

Can I have a profile option to enable all NSFW so I don't get any warnings?

I didn't understand the first part of your idea, joedirt. Are you suggesting that tags become categories or that tags become the subdomain?

In a manner of speaking, tags are already categories. The difference is that tags are free-flowing and specific whereas the categories currently under discussion are static and general. I should also point out that DNS naming is much more restrictive than tags in terms of legal characters. In other words, we can't create BONSAI_KITTENS!!!.videosift.com.

You mention something else that is interesting. Could a video submission be associated with more than one category? For example, can an amusing TV advertisement be associated with both ads.videosift.com and tv.videosift.com?

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Yes, I wanted to do it so that a video could fall into multiple categories. I also agree that tv.videosift is too general. I really think that funny.videosift is too general as well, though I'm hearing that you don't.

We would try to retroactively categorize based on tags and the title as much as possible.

I don't think a separate category is needed for "ads" and "tv", just put them all under "tv"
If "tv" is too general, perhaps "classictv" and "moderntv" would work

and just to toss out some others:

"movies" "sports" "videogames" "nature" "9/11" and "comedy" (instead of funny)

HAM,
I meant that the pages displaying "music" would use the tag for display inclusion. From what I take from initial description, they are going to add checkboxes to Submit New Video. If you click music, then it will add a field in the dB to be displayed there.

You may avoid the whole DNS issue all together by adding tabs like fark has on the main page. All, Music, whatever tabs at the top of the page. (but more work maybe)

I thought the remark abou the "funny" tag was meant to be... well, funny...

a tv-type tag would definitely have to be more specific to be useful. above mentioned suggestions work.

I think a lot of this is for the PHP and interface engineers to figure out, joedirt. In some ways, it makes sense to separate categories from tags by putting them in another table. The user then has more room for (hopefully) useful tags. I would not qualify DNS as being an issue -- irregardless of what part of the request indicates display inclusion (a query parameter or a DNS alias), the PHP must still have awareness over 1. the category requested and 2. the videos which have been associated with that category.

Instead of funny.videosift.com, may I humbly suggest adopting a tiered approach? For example:

lol.videosift.com
rofl.videosift.com
roflmao.videosift.com
tnroflmao.videosift.com (thermo-nuclear roflmao)

- Hammy Davis Jr.

I love it.

This would, of course, necessitate a seperate sifiting mechanism for level of LMAO

I am serious about addressing humor as some kind of category on here. "Funny" and "comedy" stood out when I looked at the tag cloud. I realize "funny" is a broad relative tag. Just as some folks gravitate to music or politics, there are others that gravitate to humor. Some suggestions have been made.

Ok, sorry for my less than serious "tiered" suggestion. "Comedy" reflects more a genre than "funny" and "humor", IMHO.

You shouldn't apologize Hamfist, I was the one who misinterpreted dotdude.

Hamfist, your line is still great.

dag, the idea of the 'sift' for NSFW sifts as an option check on our profiles... not a bad idea