First of all, this isn’t an original idea. Some sifter already mentioned this idea a little while ago, and though I thought it was a brilliant idea, I don’t remember who originally came up with it. My apologies in advance.

Moving along, I love the embed *backup feature. I kind of went nuts with it on some of my videos about a week ago, and I do it now with all my new videos if possible. However I believe there is a better way of backing up embeds when they are your own videos. You do it during the submission process, and you can always go back and add backup embeds later, just like any other modification. It involves giving us backup embed boxes on both the ‘Submit New Video’ and ‘Modify Video Details’ pages. I envision it looking something like this:




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As you can see, each box is clearly marked with an explanation to avoid confusion, and as it says, the SECONDARY and TERTIARY codes would be optional. So no one has to use them, but they are there if you want them.

This is not to suggest that we abandon the *backup invocation. It’s still useful if you want to add even more backups to your own videos, and you can still use it on other people’s videos to. I’m simply suggesting this modification for two simple reasons:

1. It’s quicker and easier to add backup embeds to your own videos this way, and
2. It will reduce comment clutter. I think we’d all like to see fewer invocation and siftbot response comments in the comments sections.

So what do you all think? Is it a good idea, or is it a good idea?