Segment markers set in first ~0.5 seconds of the video should be recorded as exactly 0

[jack-webb]

I've noticed users submitting segments for the beginnings of videos, but not setting the marker to exactly the start, rather, a few milliseconds away. This ends up in a pretty jarring jump after half a word of a sponsor slot, for example. It's not a super widespread problem, but I've seen it enough to warrant a report, and I don't think it'd be much work to implement.

Of course, this all applies to the ends of videos too, but this is less common owing to the definite end screen.

If a marker is placed within half a second or so of the start of the video, the marker should be treated as if it were set at the start of the video. I don't think any meaningful content could appear in a half second segment at the start of the video, so it seems like a good way of weeding out any slightly off submissions.

Finally, thanks for building and hosting this project. It's made viewing so much nicer.

Edit: I looked at the server, and maybe this is better on the server side, particularly to handle users who don't have an updated extension. Not gonna open a duplicate issue, but might as well mention it. Editing it on the server to modify existing client behaviour is probably not a good practice in hindsight..

[eldorel]

I'm going to add an example to this as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67C5vb3OYI

The linked video had a segment that missed the first 150ms, and the initial sound of the intro is VERY loud.

I created a new segment that doesn't have the issue, but I still had to manually edit the segment to remove the 0.8s blip at the start even though I stopped the video and jumped back three times to try and hit the very start.

I honestly can't think of any reason why a segment should ever be allowed to cut that close the the start or end of a video.

[dmitrybatyuk]

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcx5lZAJhAk

Feature request: "Edit like" option - like but ask to add or remove some milliseconds on start and end

Maybe it's good to make option "ok, I liked this filter but maybe it's better to drop additional 200-500-1000 ms before start". If there are ~5 of such "edit likes" - give both options to users. If first option gets new "edit likes" and second only clean likes - modify filter to second option.

[jack-webb]

Feature request: "Edit like" option - like but ask to add or remove some milliseconds on start and end

This is covered as part of https://sb.ltn.fi/ - you can vote on segments there. Most videos that have the near-miss segments relevant here have corrected segments on sb.ltn.fi, just that they are not the highest rated, so aren't shown.

Because this is a different feature request, it would be good if you opened an issue, so we can follow it separately.

[mirror176]

Instead of just an autocorrect feature (which I prefer be an option if it is brought in) we have a few things helping right now:

• Sponsorblock does have the 'start' button to alter a marking to be at the beginning of a video or with more clicks the time can be manually edited by putting in a 0 if that was the intent.
• Previewing a segment before submission should have shown the user the error that was made.
• At least on Firefox if you don't have autoplay enabled then starting a segment before you hit play or seek should also start it at the 0 mark.