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Comment posted on Pull a boner by pedanticKarl

This video’s views just keep on ticking. It’s #66 on the Popular page 3 again and has moved to the #5 position on the page 1 of the Most Viewed Comedy category.

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It is now appx eight hours later than my comment below and the above video is wanting to set some kind of record. It is now at position #44 on the Popular board, 27 days after publication and has 1,600,366 views. That video was in position #3 early after its release.

Reason? The power of a title.
Type the word “mistake” or “a mistake” into the YT search and the #1 video is the video above.

Search for “boner” and no HFW seen for three pages, and type the full title, “pull a boner”, again no HFW video for three pages, but that video is the Featured video on the right side of the page search results.

Using Google, searching for “mistake” yields no HFW video, but enter “a mistake” and that video above is the 1st video out of 37 million search results! Wow!!!

That video is the #6 video on page 1 of the Most Viewed – Comedy – This Month honors.

And, the Most Viewed – Comedy – This Month has four HotForWords videos on page 1,
Title — Position No:
A Mistake, #6
In My Pajamas, #10
Plastic Surgery, #11
Spy on me or 5 rules of Twitter, #23
Marina, the video above, called “A Mistake” on YT is on the Popular board again at #53 position, 26 days after it was published on May 17. It was at the #43 position last week and has 1.5 million views with an average of 60K views / day. It is an out of this world hit. Very
Hi Venomrock67, I may see the movie some day. That book was so riveting that the visuals from the book are carved in me forever.
Regarding the Hypertext thing.
When you are entering text into the comment text box, look above the smiley faces and you’ll see the bolded word “Allowed:” To the right is some HTML code. I’m going to repeat it here with square brackets or else if I use the angle brackets they would disappear. For the naggers, yes I know I can use entities, but I’m lazy to use them as it gets messy. I’m out the door.

Look at the code to the right of Allowed: There are two parts. Think of them like left and right book ends.
Part 1: [a href=""] The opening tag
Part 2: [/a] The closing tag

To use the tags, you construct it like this:
1. Add the opening tag: [a href=""]
2. Then type the text people will see that is in blue.
3. Then add the closing tag. [/a]
4. Then go find a URL something like: http://google.com
and put it between the two quotes.

Here is what it looks like when put together:
[a href="http://google.com"] Click me here [/a]

That’s it. Just make sure you use the angle brackets as shown above the smileys.
Hi culleyholt,
The reason that you would want to consider Marina HotForWords is because of her many assets such as:
1. A degree in teaching of Russian Language and World Literature Specializing in Philology
2. A degree in teaching of English Language Specializing in Philology
3. She is extremely Intelligent which is Sexy.
4. She is very personable, kind, giving and caring.
5. She is sizzling hot
6. She is extremely funny
7. She is in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Orlova
8. She is the sexiest geek in the universe.
9. She is very dedicated and energetic.
10. Did I mention that she is extremely hot.

Well, what do you think?
Hello Venomrock67,
Excellent commentary and no you did not pull a boner on that.

I have made two comments in the recent past about the book “Johnny Got his Gun” and highly recommend reading the book. It is a very short book and can be read very quickly. I forget, but I read the book in one sitting as it was extremely captivating and gripping. My personal recommendation is to not see the movie. I have never seen the movie and do not plan on seeing it, other than the scenes in Metallica One.

Ref the HFW Forum: YT Music and Videos
Metallica One was briefly discussed in conjunction in one of the previous video lessons.

The Forum reference started when vic_rattlehead mentioned the song by Metallica, but did not leave any references. I caught up with him on one of the video lessons. Then, he posted the words to Metallica One. Scroll down the page on the Forum.

I left links to there different versions of Metallica One here.

The reason for the My Space link as opposed to YT link is due to the video being blocked in some countries. As you may know, that book was banned many times.

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Greetings noobsaibott,
I welcome you to the HotForWords site, and I hope you get to know the people while you are here.

I’m not known for being laconic, but, this time I’ll make an exception.

You have it very wrong.

Notice, I didn’t say YOU are wrong. I said, you are having a miss-understanding. You are having a projection of your own mind placed upon others, which is tangentially incorrect. A lot of us come here to interact with people like you and Marina is just the icing.

Leonard’s been here since Mar ‘08 and I have been here since June ‘08. Sit down, rest awhile and get to know everyone.
Trust me, the world really does work that way.

I could go on, but I have just blown it.
I’ll never be laconic.
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Damiana,
I answered Rijk over here regarding the question of spam.

I only list a few known items that can cause your comment to be flagged as spam. I can tell you from personal experience that when I post a comment on my own blog as a non-logged in user, all of my comments are flagged as spam and I can only guess that it is either related to my domain or it is related to the username being on a list (black list) from other postings elsewhere. I would have to research the spam filter’s rules to see what’s going on.

In your case, if you created another username such as Damiana1 for example, and if your comments were still being flagged, it would indicate a blacklisting of your domain or cookies. Clear your cookies and see what happens. Of course you will lose your personalizations and you would have to key your username and passwords back in again.

As background information, here is the Wordpress information on the spam filter called Akismet.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam
Tissue + Sneeze
Hi CK,
My reference to accessibility refers more to the idea of usability in terms of browser standards and ability to present a consistent user experience across all platforms and browsers. Handicapped accessibility certainly is one of those elements and comes under a variety of guidelines such as WAI, UAAG, ATAG, ADA and others.

Hearing impaired Closed Captioning is usually done by people with the skillset and technology to create accurate captioning. It is not a trivial task unless a TA has that skillset or the time. Of course you don’t have to be a TA to volunteer to do this kind of work. Anyone with the time and skill set can do it.

All one needs is to get permission from Marina to replicate the video and then to insert the captioning which can be either hard captioned (visible at all times) or Closed Captioned using YouTube’s player technology.

A two minute video would take me about 20 min to an hour or more to transcribe and add the captioning. The reason for the time is that some words require to be looked up, insert corrections as needed and verify the proper transcription. Someone with a transcribing skillset would be able to do it much more quickly than I could. There are tools that can help, such as speech to text converters. I have not tried it on these videos yet.

Many of the hearing impaired institutes hire people to do these kinds of tasks, and I think many of them are very busy. There is always the question of demand and how many hearing impaired users would this help.

I would think that anyone aligned with the hearing impaired community would take the lead in this endeavor in order to create and implement a plan for captioning.
Tissue + Sneeze
Hi Jan,
I added a summary of Marina’s 9th visit to the O’Reilly Factor show in the Forum. You can also see my previous summaries of all of Marina’s visits to O’Reilly.
COP15
Hello Rijk,
I don’t think you meant, “… my super-girl got spammed…”
I think you meant to say that a comment posting by my super-girl was flagged as spam?

I don’t think the number of comments per thread would cause a comment to be flagged.

There are a few things that I am aware of that can cause a comment to be flagged as spam. Some of them are:
1. Repeated editing when trying to apply an illegal HTML code.
For example, lets say that I want to add some HTML code and it didn’t turn out right. Then, I edit the comment again and tweak the code to try to get it right. After a certain number of attempts, that will cause a comment to be flagged.

2. Adding too many links can cause a comment to be flagged as spam.

I’m sure there are others, and I don’t know all of the violations that can cause a comment to be spammed. Another factor could be the domain that she is logged in from. Sometimes the spam filter can falsely flag a user as a spammer due to association with other known spammers in that domain. (ref black lists for example)

All of the above have happened to me on this site and also on my own blog.