# Video post test thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 20, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501 "2024-09-20T01:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/1 "2024-09-20T01:25:10Z")
Testing if I can simply post the URL of a previously posted Youtube video with no problems. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_nhYaJ0Tvx0/hqdefault.jpg "Donny & Marie Osmond - "The Time Warp"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhYaJ0Tvx0) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/2 "2024-09-20T01:38:33Z")
Yep, it worked. I picked a video already posted in a different thread (in [this post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/84)) here and simply cut/pasted it into the post without triggering the error message. (See [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-avoid-the-youtube-posting-bug/1007499/8) thread for the reason.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_tJ9ot-BxNw/maxresdefault.jpg "Youtube link test") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tJ9ot-BxNw) So on my phone, pasting in Youtube URLs does _not_ need any tricks, even if the video has been posted before. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/3 "2024-09-20T01:51:22Z")
Curious. Definitely not true for me: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/DD6wa3E.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/DD6wa3E) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/4 "2024-09-20T01:58:11Z")
Another test: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_nhYaJ0Tvx0/hqdefault.jpg "Donny & Marie Osmond - "The Time Warp"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhYaJ0Tvx0) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/5 "2024-09-20T02:26:45Z")
I _think_ I might know what’s happening. Can you try the same post once more? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/6 "2024-09-20T02:29:21Z")
Sure. (And now it gave the error.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/7 "2024-09-20T02:38:13Z")
Ok, thanks. I think what’s happening is this: the link you picked started with a bare [www.youtube.com](http://www.youtube.com). For whatever reason, one of the links (either yours or the original) actually converted that to [http://www.youtube.com](http://www.youtube.com) behind the scenes. That changed the URL text and let the post through. But on your second post, the URL had then already been stored, giving the error. I suspect it was http that was added because in a test post, I manually added an http:// and it gave the error, even though that version had not been posted explicitly. When I manually added https://, it succeeded. Now, all three versions have been stored and can’t be used again, so some other tweak is required. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/8 "2024-09-20T03:01:08Z")
goodbye cruel video ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/9 "2024-09-21T05:06:55Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/V80MGYrWWaM/maxresdefault.jpg "China rams Philippine ship while 60 Minutes on board; South China Sea tensions could draw U.S. in") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80MGYrWWaM) Test ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/10 "2024-09-21T05:08:09Z")
I used the thread to test posting a video, so not the repost method. Seems to work for this. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/11 "2024-09-21T21:15:01Z")
I never have any luck with Youtube videos so let’s try this &1 thing. [https://www](https://www). [youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE&1](http://youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE&1) (link deliberately broken on edit) Nope, still can’t make it work. What am I doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/12 "2024-09-21T21:16:00Z")
Trying again [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t8tdmaEhMHE/hqdefault.jpg "One Toke Over The Line - Lawrence Welk - WTF! (1971)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/13 "2024-09-21T21:16:32Z")
Okay that’s better. Who needs to edit a post anyway? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/14 "2024-09-21T21:54:26Z")
Test. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IfcQcAPt5vk/maxresdefault.jpg "Feeding a Medieval Outlaw") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfcQcAPt5vk) ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/15 "2024-09-22T16:25:20Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Nope, still can’t make it work. What am I doing wrong? It looks like you got it to work, but for others who don’t read the linked thread: the message preview counts as a view, so if you are composing your message on the desktop with the default preview window on the right, it will fail when you save it. You need to collapse the preview window _before_ you add the URL. This isn’t a problem on mobile because the preview isn’t visible by default. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/16 "2024-09-22T19:52:33Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-post-test-thread/1007501/17 "2024-09-23T00:15:41Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Ok, thanks. I think what’s happening is this: the link you picked started with a bare [www.youtube.com](http://www.youtube.com). For whatever reason, one of the links (either yours or the original) actually converted that to [http://www.youtube.com](http://www.youtube.com) behind the scenes. That changed the URL text and let the post through. > > But on your second post, the URL had then already been stored, giving the error. I suspect it was http that was added because in a test post, I manually added an http:// and it gave the error, even though that version had not been posted explicitly. When I manually added https://, it succeeded. Now, all three versions have been stored and can’t be used again, so some other tweak is required. It just occurred to me another reason I generally have no problem posting links. Doing it from my phone, the links tend to start with [m.youtube.com](http://m.youtube.com), so that’s another URL variant.