Resubmit hopper just links to regular hopper.

All links on the user profile just link back to the user profile itself.

Hi pms. Who are you? How are you doing?
Thanks for fixing the site.

Oh, PMS, have you fixed the no new user thing? We've got several people on the Facebook page report that they haven't been able to register for years. Are you aware of this problem?

Also, I hate how we are a stratified society and some people can just submit shit without going through the hopper. Can that be something we earn if we submit enough videos with a high enough rating or whatever?

We have a facebook page?!

We'll look into fixing the old broken things -- we're really just concerned right now with newly-broken things.

I started an FB group last year to coordinate if this site were to suddenly go down and for various social arrangements and engagements.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/309452562438606/

the-hopper is fixed now. Try it and see

We won't see anything on Facebook so we can't help there. If there are folks who can't sign up we'll take a look at it.

Just posted a top-level comment about it, but forget it was discussed here, so reposting - Nobody's been able to register for some time now. A discussion about registration being broken can be found here - http://poetv.com/video.php?vid=121040

Did I get ip banned or something? Can't connect from home computer

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=168320 is not showing for me, it's one of my videos if that makes any difference

casualcollapse could use a timeout for spamming the hopper and front page with garbage. In short, 7 of 8 videos he's posting are just fucking clickbait garbage and I think it's possible that he's using sockpuppets to get them through the hopper.

I will volunteer to take a time out for as long as he gets, just to let you know how bad I think the problem is. I am not the only one that he's bothering with this shit.

You wish I was using sock puppet accounts.. it's easily provable that I am not by the length of time of of ownership of the accounts that are voting them out of the hopper

That sounds oddly specific, that defense.
You said 'the accounts' but you didn't name who.

Almost all of the submissions that were submitted and visible on the last 7 days list before things froze up are gone now but other than that it seems to be OK so far.

Oh, also the "subitted videos" and "Recent activity" and other links on profiles just reload the main profile page now.

Also I wasn't logged in when I made the previous two posts.

Said missing videos aren't even in the "Past 7 Days" view.

Is it possible to just put those videos back in the hopper with new IDs, and people will vote 'em out? That might be the easiest way to get them back, if you have a couple minutes.

Try resubmitting, yes. There may be some database drift.

We probably need more crawler bots.

This should work now

You can. Click on the Amazon banner when you need to shop for whatnots.

I'm having the same problem.

Try this now

Works for me, thanks!

It's done that for me for years, if I click "submit" it usually fixes it.

I'm having a similar problem when voting on clips. I'll be logged in on the hopper page, and not logged in when on the voting screen for a video.

This should show your username.

As in, it should work now. Let us know if it doesn't

Yes. We are like the stick insects on Ball's Pyramid, all living on a single bush and only one storm away from complete annihilation:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-leg ged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years

nice analogy, but I've always rather thought of myself as the last yeti in nepal

This is the last train to Clarksville.

Try it now

Hurdle cleared! But then when I go to vote the resubmit up or down, it tells me I need to register first.

Also fixed now, thanks!

Wopps, here's what happened on an "Update Dead Link":

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=128810

It got a new vid number, I think.

try it now

SPILL GIRL

My understanding is that poeTV is the last remaining official POE thing. Official might be overstating the case.

For unofficial, there's bo-ne.ws, 54evil.com, and a Facebook group. And the caltrops.com forum is still around, if you're a real OG.

caltrops forum: "The synth 80s score [of Drive] is a shout out to Michael Mann and the consummate professional protagonists of his films."

http://www.caltrops.com/pointy.php?action=viewPost&pid=141431< br />
thank you syd, this is amazing... i have heard some shit in my time but whoa

I forgot about Caltrops!

This place has had temporary forums before. Once when it launched and a couple times when we had something like this happen. While useful, it kind of detracted from the important job we all do here: generating snarky commentary on Internet videos.

I remember the PoeTV forums. I think the problem was that it was PoE style with a separate post for each video, and most people didn't know it was there, so conversation was so scattered that it wasn't worth Support's time. Plus they were probably dreading the inevitable flame wars that would develop.

73 what?

Yeah, I'm getting this problem too. Tried to submit but it said "Error picking artist" after hitting the button.

Try this now.

Still getting it, I'm afraid :(

Try it once again.

It works, but the artist is stuck as "unknown"- any attempt to fix it returns the same "error picking artist" message. Not a huge deal, though, and thanks for putting in the time at all, mystery benefactor(s?).

You sure about that?

http://www.73q.com/video.php?vid=128887

Seemed to work okay.

You can edit now, too. I think that was the issue as well.

Yes I noticed the same thing on my end. pms I love you for restoring our beloved site but it's essential that I have the ability to downvote anime submissions!

Try it now. Give a URL if it doesn't work.

It is still fucked. Tried upvoting this turd.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=128703&what=VOTING

...and it remains unmoved.

There's a lot of stuff in the hopper that prolly already got voted out. What happens to the database when that stuff is pooped back into the bowl? Guru meditation!

Try now

OK it worked for me now.

Working. Thanks!

That's what the Amazon links and the store are for, Speaking of, that store needs....more.

I don't shop on amazon, but I'm guessing I'm about the only one around here. If a donate button does show up I'll be sure to throw some money at it.

This site has given me so much over the years, I'm glad it's not going any time soon. Thanks for your work pms.

If you can get a copy of "Mindfuckers: A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America, Including Material on Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Victor Baranco, and Their Followers" by David Felton, Robin Green and David Dalton in the store I will buy it for .

Someone had suggested a sort of hopper-like system for the store, where we could submit stuff that we think poetv people might want to buy. That would be cool. Not sure if feasible.

There needs to at least be the Baleen Category and the Old Zircon Category, for all those awesome weird rare movies they share. At least the ones still in print. At least put up MST3K.

Actually, why not just set it up so that if a user wants to buy something, we can get ahold of you, and you can link it in the store?

I know I'd be down for helping out PoETV that way, if I could.

pms why dont you just put some ads on the site? Ads are everywhere they are just like a background.

I'll keep a list of suggestions. Keep them coming.

Clicking links helps.

mst3k links are in the Store now.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE AMAZON STORE:

TV

Kids in the Hall

The Found Footage Festival volumes

That Mitchell and Webb Look

BOOKS

A Confederacy of Dunces (it's a favorite book of many posters here)

the works of Kurt Vonnegut (Welcome to the Monkey House, Galapagos, Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano would all be good choices)

the Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide

The Aquariums of Pyongyang

the Project: Censored series of yearly journalism stories buried by the mainstream press

DOCUMENTARIES

The Weight of the Nation (HBO)

Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky

Frontline: Inside the Meltdown

Frontline: The Warning

pretty much anything else from FRONTLINE

Paradise Lost (all three parts) which tells the story of innocent men in prison proven to be innocent.

Jesus Camp

Marjoe

Friends of God

MOVIES

Margin Call

Network

the works of Uwe Boll, but especially Postal

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

UHF

Primer

******


I will post more as I think of them but I think these represent the spirit of POETV pretty well.

MORE RECOMMENDATIONS:

Silent Night, Deadly Night 2

Troll 2

the collective works of John Waters but especially his early work, including "Polyester", "Female Trouble", and "Desperate Living".

Trekkies

Hausu (House) - surreal Japanese horror film

Brazil (Terry Gilliam)

Funky Forest: The First Contact (one of the weirdest movies ever made)

A suggestion for the store: add a category for sources of popular POEtv videos so people can buy them.

Hell, don't stop at popular. Simply well-rated ones too.

We've added a bunch and will work on this down the road.

I want more wolf urine.

I am very happy that we have pms.

poeTV would be boring and forgotten without pms.

True... It'd be nice if pms came around more than once a month, though.

Take it to pms guys.

you are so cool let me hang out with you and smoke

Pf, k. Sure.

I lost a volcano vid. I'll resubmit it. Life goes on.

Nominal: Try posting it with the 'http' changed to 'https' for a clickable link to the video. Or post the url as 'http://youtu.be/[video code]'. The video code is the string of characters after '?v=' in the usual url. That'll result in an embedded video like normal.

I've got some bad news for you.

...and everything it knows about the outside world it learned from our video submissions.

Now I get "News category return failes32." when I clock "verify" on the submission form.

Let us know if you see it again. We haven't necessarily fixed it, but we can see about getting closer to the issue

Try this now

That's a disturbingly subjective notion

I will fight you for the right to buy poetv.

you will lose

Try it now

that's been broken forever, and is actually the doing of google. I believe there was some beef between poetv and google due to ads

Try now

Fixed on Opera, probably on the others too. Thanks!

Also, can't go to different pages in a person's comment history.

Comment history should work now.

See if editing works. If not, provide the error and the URL

What does "tags get all screwy when I submit" mean?

Well, currently on my latest submission (haven't tried to correct them yet), the tags are "Five, dollar, wrestling,, freight"

Where as, I had them as:
five dollar wrestling
wrestling
freight train
eugene
ben kingsly [sic]

The submission system has fucked up tags like that for a while now, but previously, the submitter could edit their entry and immediately hit submit and they would get fixed.

Anyway, just edited the submission and it worked.

I've had to play the open-in-new-tab-crap-login-back-back-reload game since I've been on poeTV.

Editing should work now.

The login issue should be fixed. If you are seeing trouble, let us know what URL is giving you trouble.

Nevermind, so sorry, I didn't know rating without commenting counted as a comment. I just now discovered that.

If you want to make sure pms sees a post, post it as a direct reply to the video to a reply to one of pms' top-level comments. Otherwise it won't show up on hi userpage.

*post it as a direct reply to the video or as a reply to one of pms' top-level comments.

My bad, your bug report reminder vid description read :

Remember, post bug reports at http://poetv.com/video.php?vid=128798 - as comments, not replies.

Your initial comment was fine. The comment you added to it wouldn't have shown up on his userpage.

Huh, just noticed that replies-to-comments show up on video posters' userpages as long as they're the ones who posted the videos where the disccusions are taking place. Sorry, my bad.

Crap, wasn't mean to be a comment.

*meant

They should try registering now and we'll see what's broken going forward.

Is this Embedded YouTube videos issue in Safari or Chrome?

Embedding doesn't seem to work in the mobile versions of either Safari or Chrome.

Provide a URL of one that doesn't work and we'll investigate further.

Vince McMahon

Fixed

Try it now and check it tomorrow (or after you submit something) and check it again

Fixed.

That video works, so downvote in the Hopper.

Or am I missing something?

When I resub a vid, it looks like the old video still works & the screen my resub is on looks invalid.

That happens to me too. I posted about it and pms hasn't said boo yet.

Try this again next time a dead link needs updating.

It works now, thanks!

everyone else's seem fine, so maybe its only when the user views their own profile.

Fixed it

Yep! Thanks.

Oh, and this one too - http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=128824

And it happened again here - http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=128802 - I don't know whether the glitched entries were submitted before or after the relevant fix, though.

Nevermind, Bort already said it.

Try it now or next time it's called for

Let us know the next time you see a dead link so we can do it

Actually, give it a shot -- this may be fixed.

Okay, the videos still aren't loading on iOS but the "update dead/original" is showing up now

Its showing up when logged in, I guess. Makes sense for the "update dead link" part, but it'd be nice to click through to the original if the embed isn't working, even if not logged in

SECONDED.

actually, how do their videos get past the hopper anyway?

People vote the videos in. That hasn't changed.

Lately, they've been wising up to the obvious channel thief-whores, though.

Where are you searching? The little box at the top of the page? Or are you using the Search by Google?

And what does 'can't find anything' mean? Are you getting no results? An error message?

I was using the POE search, not google. And I wasn't getting any results, not an error. The searches were for common two word combinations, that I knew were showing up just a few weeks ago when you first got it working. But, now I think it is back to where you have to put the name of the tag exactly or nothing at all will show up. It's a minor issue really, so don't worry about it if it's difficult. I just like to be able to search for old videos.

Try it again and provide the exact error message.

Thanks.

hmm, today it worked fine! Although I'm pretty sure I copy-pasted the error code in my last post. Thanks!

***NEVER MIND*** it links correctly; it's just the title at the top that says "most views," but that's a small little detail.

We'll take a look

So uh... I have no idea if anything was done on the other side since I whined, but it looks much better lately.

This should work now

For youtube, at least.

Yes I have also been getting passed to the hopper.

Or that may be because I accidentally submitted the youtube link with https

Those two in particular were marked as invalid. If you have other examples, let me know

Try the youtube https thing now. Should work.

Try now

Can't update the artist name on http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=135633, captain!

"News category return failes32c." still happens when I try to submit Blood Ceremony.

It's sort of comforting when even the error messages are a bit wonky.

Pillager, check your keywords.

PMS, thank you.

Hooray, it works! Many thanks.

Need more info on that

on matlock's userpage http://www.poetv.com/users.php?userid=22273
about 30 lines down this vanishing interaction is noted as recent activity:
Replied to Old_Zircon discussing How to Win Friends and Influence People

so there may be some transactional record of what the comment was, somewhere

i've seen it before, but will keep an eye out for it on my own comments, so I could provide more detail on the body of a vanishing comment.
my guess is that the "injected space" bug (also responsible for breaking long URLs and, rarely, bold comments) is somehow messing with the comment posting.

here's another example that just happened:
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=136323
"Accidie replied to Azmo23 discussing Magician cuts himself in half, shambles around town"
no comment showing from accidie though

for both of these examples, there is an entry on the respective user's page for "recent activity" but not in their "comment history"

I think this happens if you hit reply on a message, and then just rate the video instead of commenting.

you're so smart! tested and confirmed that happens
i love solved mysteries

Try it now

i don't have a video right now to test with, but instead of placing the http into the submission, which i'm sure will result in videos being submitted with http://http:// at the beginning, would it be possible to use regular expressions to check for and add the http at the beginning if necessary?

something like:
(i'm sure this won't display properly but here goes)

if ($url !~ m/http/)
{$url =~ s/^/http:\\}

whoops missing the trailing forward slash within the regex replacement bit

meant to be a reply to my previous comment whoops

Try it now

Guess it's just me. False alarm.

Uh, actually it does this for all user profile pages, not just mine. But it works fine if I'm not logged in.

So, clearing my cache/history seemed to fix it.

Try it now -- new submit.

May be related to the "object" embed codes that were deprecated a year and a half ago. Should switch to the iframe code.

I found that I can see videos in FireFox, but not Chrome.

Possible fix, but just for new submissions from YouTube. It seems to work here http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=155063.

As of 9/11/2016, it's still happening. If you try to post a dollar amount -- like dollar-sign-digit-digit-digit -- PHP is trying to do a variable substitution and it makes things go unhappy.

$12 test3

oops I did that but over at
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=98359

This please. I don't think I've ever seen someone trolling the hopper in quite that way before.

And punch him in the dick, please.

I think he just submitted 50 or so more.

Ok so it's working after I reset my router.

Also: I am an idiot.

"10. Do NOT submit videos featuring people receiving serious injuries Including breaking bones, getting hit by trains or cars, etc"

Better get to purging the content of the "Dude, you ok?" tag...

Are you still seeing this issue?

Code doesn't work quite that way.

Old submissions will have this issue, but new ones going forward from........NOW........should recognize https.

Now, of course, this will cause issues with all the old content using http so that will be problematic. If it's too much of a problem I can change it back.

3 separate topics they've now spammed:
http://www.poetv.com/users.php?userid=22026&what=comments

and now the hopper?
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=168659&what=VOTING

Bring back EH.