How Instructables Builds Community

video How Instructables Builds Community

As part of the 2007 Crunchies, where Instructables was a finalist in the category of best user-generated content, we were asked to submit a short video explaining how we build a great community of users on Instructables.

We had a blast making it -- noahw did all the hard work! -- and hope you enjoy it too.

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Jan 22, 2008. 8:13 PM

robbtoberfest says:

Can I buy stock in instructables yet?

Jan 19, 2010. 3:31 PM

KnexFreek says:

that would be awesome!

Dec 26, 2009. 12:37 PMM4industries says:

Instructables is not a public company. Yes I have done searches in NYSE and found nothing. Not even MAKE: is large enough to go public.

Jan 5, 2010. 2:23 PM

robbtoberfest says:

I know that, I'm just excited about it anyways :)

Jan 5, 2010. 3:52 PMM4industries says:

I would buy enough to be a major shareholder!

Hello Boardmember of Instructables!

Jan 19, 2010. 3:31 PM

KnexFreek says:

AWESOME!

Jan 22, 2008. 4:13 PMjoejoerowley says:

Cool Video! Do you own the tower and do you own the strip? Do you rent it to the mythbusters? Sometime you should make a mythbusters leek video if you do.:)

Jan 22, 2008. 5:52 PM

Weissensteinburg says:

They just rent the tower from the gov't.

Jan 22, 2008. 6:16 PMjoejoerowley says:

thats a shame I guess. Can you blow stuff up on it out there? Or is that damaging government property? It must be pretty awesome having that much space in the bay area.

Dec 26, 2009. 12:38 PMM4industries says:

Tetranitrate has a video of the Mythbusters testing the water heater rocket on the runway.

Jan 22, 2008. 4:00 PM

Kiteman says:

Nice vid, but can anybody please tell me why Americans don't pronounce the l in soldering?

Jul 27, 2009. 1:33 PMwenpherd says:

ing, the last three letters, ing, solder_ing

Jul 27, 2009. 2:33 PM

Kiteman says:

Listen to the video - they pronounce it sodder-ing, instead of the correct form, soul-der-ing.

Nov 29, 2009. 10:42 AMbassclarinet23 says:

I have no idea. Different dialects of English?

Jul 27, 2009. 7:08 PMwenpherd says:

oh, well then i do it both ways.

Sep 22, 2008. 7:26 PM

Steamdnt says:

Apparently the English roots in Australia have Brought that pronunciation, The Australian roots In Me From my father have now brought that pronunciation to CANADA YAY!

May 14, 2008. 6:27 PM

Yerboogieman says:

cause then you'd sound, well, like your from england, no offence

Mar 3, 2008. 12:16 PM

Gjdj3 says:

Wait... do they in other countries?

Jan 23, 2008. 8:39 AMtrebuchet03 says:

Because as soon as you say the "l" - someone is there to correct you :p

Jan 23, 2008. 7:47 AMchalky says:

yep kiteman that has had me wondering for ages it sounds like there saying"sordering" to me?? so come on our good friends across the pond explain it to us? lol:)

Jan 23, 2008. 11:41 PMOhm says:

This reminds me of when my step mom from Australia was applying for her permanent residency here in the US and her and my Dad were at the immigration office filling out forms. They had a question about one of the instructions on the form and went to the desk to ask for clarification. The person on duty started to say "Well I do not see what the problem is, it is written in plain Eng." and caught himself and corrected himself saying it was written in American. We are just a different dialect of the language, for the most part it is very similar but our spelling on many things is different as well as our pronunciation. Also there are many words that are used differently as well, some obvious and some not. Just my $0.02

Jan 22, 2008. 6:48 PM

zoxx says:

for the same reason we don't say the "h" in "herb"...we're just...sigh...just take pity on us. please. However, I must note that the way Brits pronounce "aluminum" is flat-out ridiculous.

Mar 8, 2008. 6:03 AMHeliosphan says:

I'm from the UK, and heres my two PENNIES about aluminum-aluminium Well see here's the thing. Aluminium, broken down into its constituent parts is an -ium word, you Americans too have lots of -ium chemistry words- polonium, uranium etc. pronounced correctly. As far as I'm concerned Aluminum is spoken plain wrong for this reason. Its incorrect but has entered your language as a norm, and is accepted by you. This is fair enough though, theres tonnes of examples in history of word shortening becoming the norm on both sides of the pond, in fact throughout the world. But zoxx thinking that OUR pronunication is wrong is in itself flat-out ridiculous, a complete reversal of the truth that its originally an -ium word!!

Jan 23, 2008. 9:07 AM

Kiteman says:

We don't say aluminum.

We don't have that word in our dictionary.

It even upsets the Firefox spell-checker.

The word we use is aluminium.

Jun 3, 2008. 5:42 PMtheburn7 says:

weird, i never say anything incorrect, but whenever i do say something correct, somebody in the US corrects me. Wateva. Aluminum doesnt upset the firefox dictionary here, weird

Jan 23, 2008. 9:42 AM

zoxx says:

fantastic. keep it up. *_*

Jan 23, 2008. 7:53 AMchalky says:

you say tamato we say tomato lol

Jan 22, 2008. 7:04 PM

killerjackalope says:

in practice it's sounds better than illuminum but the whole word is ridiculous...

Jan 22, 2008. 5:32 PM

zachninme says:

I still can't get over /soddering/ vs /soldering/

Sep 22, 2008. 7:29 PM

Steamdnt says:

i head a better one a couple days ago, he pronounced it Saldering

Jan 22, 2008. 6:21 PMBran says:

Me either - I prefer the latter.

Jan 24, 2008. 1:19 PM

zachninme says:

I just realized I can...
I thought I had a problem, but I *was* saying it right!

Jan 22, 2008. 4:50 PM

ledzeppie says:

cause its silent, just like the k in knife. well at least in Canada and the US. its like saying tom-AY-to vs tom-AH-to <<<

Jan 22, 2008. 4:23 PMGorillazMiko says:

I used to think it was sohlduring. Not spelled that way, but not said as "Solduring", which is the right way.

Jan 22, 2008. 4:21 PM

Tool Using Animal says:

I do, but my friends look at me funny.

Jan 22, 2008. 4:11 PMjoejoerowley says:

Because we are not as cool as you tea drinkers. ( I actually like tea, but don't let the US Government know. They will have me killed) :)

Jan 22, 2008. 4:52 PM

ledzeppie says:

most Americans actually drink tea. i dont know how i know that lol, especially since im Canadian hehe

Jan 22, 2008. 4:54 PMjoejoerowley says:

Not where I live. Where I live old people drink tea and everyone else gets shit faced (drunk) and goes ice fishing. Call me weird. JK (BTW I never gotten shit faced or gone ice fishing) I dont really feel the need to sit on a frozen lake for hours at a time freezing my ass off.

Jul 8, 2008. 7:02 PMSunny124613 says:

GREAT! even though I do not have sound on my computer I love how E will Helm shows the very popular instructables. wonderfully mastered!

Jun 12, 2008. 1:10 PM

drinkmorecoffee says:

Oh and here I was secretly hoping Eric pronounced his name 'Vilhelm' rather than Wilhelm.
I have a lot more fun saying Vvilhelm.
Ah well.
Interesting, I didn't see this here 'till just now. Good job on the video.

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