Noah, this is a library.* I'm archiving.* The items I'm archiving are from a service called Vine. I don't expect the service to be around forever and part of the Internet Archive's mission is not just to archive movies that have gone into public domain or Grateful Dead, but all aspects of culture. The Internet is disappearing before our eyes.* I've been online since 1989 and I've watched my own words and items just disappear.* I've seen significant sites just *poof*, gone, vanished, never to be seen again. In response to your comment on one of my videos, yes, I'm working alone.* It's just me.* I spent many hours preparing these Vines for upload, converting the descriptions and keywords, dates, into a form that the Internet Archive would find acceptable.* It took a lot of work to prepare. Initially, I was doing them manually, retyping, one at a time.* But they have easier ways now.* I learned how to prepare ahead of time.* I set my little laptop to upload on my slow DSL and they uploaded all night long, on through to this morning. Then today, I had them batch process.* That's why you saw them all at once. They're a part of a collection called "Kenneth Udut".* They're exactly where they belong on the Internet Archive. Yes, it's not full length classic films from the 40s. It's stuff from recent history.* Little bits of cultural history.* A window into a slice of the Internet that will be gone someday, as many bits of the Internet are disappearing. It's not exciting and I'm sorry if my contribution was painful for you.* But I can't save the Internet.* I can only do a little part. If you like, you can give my Collection a 1-star and a bad review if you like.* You don't have to like it.* But I'm not trying to give you a bad time here. Thanks for listening. Kenneth Udut ===== The originals (under the mp4) are better quality than the shrunken previews you see. They're designed to loop around and around. As far as typing them, I typed them each individually over a 2.5 year period of time. For example, a Vine I made on 3/8/2015 had this filename: Every #building has a #strange #path that leads to a #mysterious #unmarked #door. #Mystery-OEdvWAThbjF.mp4 That filename is *also* the description I used when I made the Vine, which was about a year ago. I converted the hashtag (#) into subjects in Microsoft Excel and Notepad++ and lots of search/replace trickery. I prepared them all ahead of time. IA offers the ability to transfer your files *and* their descriptions at the same time (via XML text files), through FTP. So, in short: I typed the words a LONG time ago and never have to type them again. I just had to convert them into a format that IA can accept. Once they were prepared, I submitted them all. That's the wave of incoming that you ran into today. I had already prepared them from my ugly yellow chair on my back lanai in my Naples, FL home the night before. === My responses to this guy, Noah 8-) Poster: Noah 8-? Date: Feb 7, 2016 10:12am Forum: [1]movies Subject: Enough is ENOUGH - THOUSANDS of worthless uploads Enough is ENOUGH - THOUSANDS of worthless uploads Kenneth Udut ! Almost 90 PAGES of 6 second episodes of poo. . . . . . between him and the Brit - - - Lessee - - - 90 pages at an average of 50 uploads per page is ohhhh. . . . . .( = ) 4,500 uploads of only a few seconds worth (each) of out of focus *stuff* ! ! ! Talk about slamming the site with worthless uploads ! ! ! It takes longer to write/type the descriptions - - - this uploader CAN*T be working alone. Isn*t there some way to discourage abusers like this? Noah 8-? === Enough is ENOUGH ! ! ! A search of Kenneth Udut and Lo and Behold Almost SIX Thousand uploads of 6 or so seconds each ? ! ? ! Results: 5,902 through 5,950 of 5,949 (0.015 secs) You searched for: mediatype:movies AND subject:"KennethUdut" In one day - - - A THOUSAND uploads? What*s wrong with this picture? Noah 8-? ==== 5 or 6 second vignettes ! ? ! ? and most out of focus shots of YOUR face? Thousands of them ! ? ! ? That isn*t archiving - - - that*s slamming. There*s no humanly way possible that you are uploading these * these - whatever you want to call them* individually - - - and I hardly think that you could possibly be doing this by yourself. It takes longer to type the text than it takes to the view the contribution. And Almost Six THOUSAND uploads? What for? Why are you sending these to IA if not to keep anyone else*s contribution from being noticed among your flood? News broadcasts are one thing * YouTube contributions are another. YouTube broadcasts are archived on their own massive banks.- - - but your hundreds + daily ? ? ? Really now, As for this participant - - - I would rather share than impose - - - YOUR contributions are an imposition to anyone else that tries to upload something that could be of value to the rest of the world. IMHO FIVE THOUSAND several second spots ain*t it. Noah 8-? References Visible links 1. https://archive.org/details/movies#forum