Why is this link going through hedonistica?

June 23, 2006 4:09 PM

Why is this link going through hedonistica? I guess I'm just suspicious when someone makes a first post after quickly making 5 content-less comments...
posted by vacapinta to Etiquette/Policy at 4:09 PM (22 comments total)

As to the contentless comments, my random guess, seeing as most of them are made today, is he suddenly wanted to post that video, realized he had to make a few more comments and did it quick like.

I may be proven wrong, and it may be nefarious, but need some more proof.
posted by edgeways at 4:25 PM on June 23, 2006

A lot of people link to youtube framing pages. It actually takes a lot of work to get a youtube URL from an embedded page (you have to either share it with yourself via email, or view the page source, extract the ID and then reconstruct the URL. Not easy).

If someone finds a framed Youtube video, the easiest way to share it is to just link to the page URL, rather then trying to figure out the original youtube URL.
posted by delmoi at 4:32 PM on June 23, 2006

In this case, though, the youtube url is passed right through in the hedonistica url. There was no need to link to that page.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 4:36 PM on June 23, 2006

Researching "lilbrudder" is non trivial given the Homestar Runner connection. The lack of profile info is also a bit of a roadblock. Googling yielded no common instances of (whois record admin name) "karl wang" or substrings there of with "lilbrudder", though, which is something.

This may well be an innocent case of the mehs.
posted by cortex at 4:36 PM on June 23, 2006

Although apperantly you can link directly to the swf if you view source. example(http://www.youtube.com/v/KsDrbnl_WHI). Otherwise you can append the UID (KsDrbnl_WHI) to "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" (example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsDrbnl_WHI)

Both of those were from the hedonistica page.
posted by delmoi at 4:38 PM on June 23, 2006

Click inside the video to get to the Youtube page, and the sharing URL is on the right.
posted by cillit bang at 4:38 PM on June 23, 2006

For quite some time I couldn't play the external youtube videos in my browser. I would either have to pass on the video or just go to youtube and search from a description. Searching almost always worked just fine for me, but descriptionless videos stymied me. Just saying that searching on youtube can quickly find the correct video instead of going through a framing page.
posted by Phantomx at 4:39 PM on June 23, 2006

1. Go to hedonistica
2. Right click on video
3. "Copy link location".

Quick, lazy.
posted by cortex at 4:39 PM on June 23, 2006

Click inside the video to get to the Youtube page, and the sharing URL is on the right.

Huh, you're right. Maybe I didn't notice that before because I had popups turned off? *shrug*.
posted by delmoi at 4:45 PM on June 23, 2006

1. Go to hedonistica
2. Right click on video
3. "Copy link location".

That dosn't work. You get the macromedia flash settings menu.
posted by delmoi at 4:46 PM on June 23, 2006

No no no! Do this while at the hedonistica homepage. Or at the permalink for the article.
posted by cortex at 4:49 PM on June 23, 2006

Right, in this particular case you can get the URL to swf by editing the URL directly, but that does not work in general.
posted by delmoi at 4:54 PM on June 23, 2006

Ah, I see what you mean. I was referring specifically to this instance, and the question of librudder. Apologies for the confusion.
posted by cortex at 4:59 PM on June 23, 2006

Could be because the poster saw the clip on Hedonistica first, like I did.
posted by jonson at 5:23 PM on June 23, 2006

Precisely, jonson.
posted by cortex at 5:28 PM on June 23, 2006

Well, it's OldPepsiBlueYouTube. Shouldn't that matter too? It's a lame FPP.
posted by ninjew at 5:32 PM on June 23, 2006

He'll still be quarterback...someday.
posted by mullacc at 5:38 PM on June 23, 2006

If you open the passed-thru URL directly, you get a full screen Flash player which is kind of neat due to the pretty scaled controls.
posted by smackfu at 5:39 PM on June 23, 2006

Ok...never mind. I've never heard of hedonistica but if its a popular weblog then so be it...
posted by vacapinta at 6:22 PM on June 23, 2006

I just changed the URL to the real one.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:36 PM on June 23, 2006

So, this whole conversation is even more inscrutable now, no?
posted by yhbc at 6:39 PM on June 23, 2006

I figured with a name like "hedonistica" it had to be Miguel's site.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:42 PM on June 23, 2006