alien_concept's Sift Talk Posts




Should Sumbitted Videos Have Summaries That Are Unique To The Submitter?

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A total of 50 votes have been cast on this poll.


This is in no way meant to get on anyone's back about how they choose to take part in our wonderful site, nothing personal! But I have always found it quite annoying when you see a video that has been copied and pasted word for word from the original source of the video. If we are striving to be a site that brings the best content of the internet all into one place, should we not attempt to try and make the submission as much our own as we can? Sometimes it feels like the clips aren't even being watched, just get-embed-copy-blurb-press-submit-bish bash bosh. I believe we should be taking pride in what we post and making it our own with some element of effort involved. And now it is time for me to step off my soapbox. Thanks for giving/not giving a shit

What Makes You Sift Through PQueues?

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A total of 28 votes have been cast on this poll.


I'm curious to find out what makes you guys search the pqueues. My motivation for looking is usually because someone has promoted one of my videos, they have made a comment that I've enjoyed somewhere or that I've noticed I've upvoted a lot of their stuff and want to find out if I'm missing something. I think it's important if you've got time to try and delve in a few times a week, I know I've missed TONS of stuff in the time I've been here. On a sidenote, I have never blanket upvoted before, I will only ever watch stuff that catches my eye, on the odd occasion I will vote without watching because I know I'll like it regardless, or it's a theme I support... but seriously, what's the point in voting on stuff you don't even care about, doesn't that defeat the purpose of Videosift?

Change Catsanddogs Channel Name

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A total of 52 votes have been cast on this poll.


It just doesn't make sense and is often overlooked as a channel assignation or removed when you have a video about a monkey.

Playlist Request

I was just wondering if there was any way the playlists could have a feature where the videos were viewed at random rather than in order of when you added them. That is all : )

I can't embed from YouTube, why???

<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zflzBsjNbXQ" frameborder="0"></iframe>

<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LtfQg4KkR88" frameborder="0"></iframe>

<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pc0mxOXbWIU" frameborder="0"></iframe>

These are three separate alleged embed codes from YT, but none of them work, the last vid I posted was a couple of days ago and it was fine then. Does anyone know what's going on??

Please help!!

Dying Vids Affecting Star Ratings?

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, or whether the new VS has got it covered. This nasty virus that's killing so many of our vids and I expect will continue to do so... does this also mean that people are losing their rankings?

If so, I propose that no matter how many sifted videos you have left, it shouldn't affect the achievement that members have already made. It could become very disheartening if people are continually getting busted down the ranks, especially for those who enjoy the aspect of gentle competition here on the sift.

Really, if you've sifted a video, that should be the important thing, you've done what you set out to do, and all this copyright douchebollocks can get to fuck

Power Point Problem

Hello, it's me! I just wanted to bring up the annoying thing about power points, because I keep losing the ones that I have earnt once the others have recharged. Basically what seems to happen is that if you haven't used your PP when you earn another one, it adds it on to the existing amount, but if you gain them before the others have recharged, it seems to bump them off as soon as they do! This has happened to me three times this week, let alone all the other times

Can this be sorted and can I have my PP back please

Irksome Things And Stuff

Thought i'd post an ST to celebrate the new *fail channel. I had the idea to do this every time we gain a new one, but so far haven't got round to it. Maybe I should remedy that.

Anyway, today i'm thinking about the things that annoy me. I know I always go on about people moaning too much and end up contradicting myself by complaining about it relentlessly, but there is nothing like a good old bitch! I just believe there is a time and a place and if possible it shouldn't hurt anyone's feelings. So off the top of my head, here are a few things that I hate or make me antsy (ie they fail )...

Hinters - Those people who want something and won't ask you directly so they proceed to beat around the bush until you grasp what they mean and YOU end up offering THEM something so then they don't have to feel like you've done them a favour! On the flip side of that because of people like that, I hate it when i'm mentioning something and then people think I'M hinting when i'm not (because I never ever would). Gah!

McDonald's pisses me off on every level and now it's open 24 hours around here. Fuck you.

People who never discipline their own kids but get angry when you end up having to do it for them. Grow up.

Censoring swear words so you can still see what they are. Especially on something like a website. Everyone's seen that Louis CK "N-word" vid right? Same fucking thing!

Smoking around non-smokers. It's just rude, they choose not to be a whore to the nicotine. They may be polite enough to say they don't mind, but how dare people presume it's ok. No need to do it at any point, selfish bastards. I'm a smoker. Going along with that, people who smoke round children should be arrested on sight.

Someone making a stupid mistake while they're driving and then seeing it was a woman. Again.

Public displays of affection. People who make you feel like a gooseberry. Why do it, whose benefit is it for, what makes you think it's fun for us??!!? Get out.

Ahhh i'm done

BreaksTheEarth Cracks The Gold!

breakstheearth

Again we find ourselves welcoming another sifter into the exciting world of the yellow star and this pleasant fella is most deserving. Not only does he make time to watch and upvote a lot of our vids he posts a very eclectic and most excellent bunch of his own.
This is my favourite:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Uncle-Ken-and-the-Toilets-A-True-Yorkshire-Dialect#comment-755188
This is vastly disturbing:
http://www.videosift.com/video/William-Shatner-Sings-I-Wanna-Sex-You-Up
And for anyone who fancies BreakingTheTV, watch this bastard:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Wife-Swap-Extremely-Stuck-Up-Family-Edition

Not to mention the numerous wonderful QI clips and the fact he's an American who appreciates great Brit comedy. (Always a plus imo )

The PQ is pretty non-existent right now so take some time out to say something encouraging and hopefully not too generic! Yay...

And The Winner Is...

http://history.videosift.com/talk/Dragging-Some-Fun-Back-To-The-Sift-Kickin-and-Bitchin

That was my favourite sift post so far, thanks everyone for joining in! Even if you didn't wanna tell us a story the upvoting of comments was the perfect way to contribute

And so i've made my decision. It was hard because the one I most enjoyed (BreaksTheEarth) hadn't got his applauded. I knew I should have worked another way round that, maybe next time...

Bea's was epic as are all her stories, I could spend weeks around a campfire with her, that's for sure. I expect we now know who the father of her kids is though...
Gwiz, i'm glad you thought of not one but two things to share with us, and I didn't smell a whiff of emo at all
rasch - I'm sorry I simply don't believe a lovely guy such as you could possibly get up to such mischief, you probably cried and called the police - you're disqualified.
schmawy, it's a great relief to know that even though you are potentially the nicest guy on the planet, you're still going to hell
calvados, would it really have been tmi to share the contents of your pants with us after that experience? That's a wicked story and you've raced up the cool-o-meter for most of us i'm sure!
Edeot... Well that explains everything really. Thanks for the insight there. Oh and btw, if you really think your sis isn't saving that up for the best moment possible, then you know nothing about females
Orn you are blatently leaving something out of that story, are you ashamed?
Haldaug, are you sure you weren't smoking that ganja, seriously. Sounds like you were in a Wes Anderson movie, wished I could have been there.

vsbm, thanks for the quality and your very vivid depiction of an all time party-hard-suffer later moment. I was recently somewhere similar myself after downing 3/4 of a bottle of pear vodka in shots. Puked up my kidneys the next day, so your story took me back there good and proper! JAPR you brought a tear to my eye... not really but it was lovely even if you were drunk. Thanks mate and who'd have known you were a filthy bastard irl eh

Thanks everyone else too, I got such a good vibe from this thread, really felt like I should start giving a shit again. So anyway it's kind of between RhesusMonk and NeuralNoise. Thing is I loved the kick-ass content of NN's and the way it was written was really great as well as the conclusion to round it off perfectly. And then Monk's, it's a fucking classic, and I can appreciate more than anything else when people are willing to just spill stuff out and be honest and not give a shit, it's refreshing

So i'm giving you both a promote, you win, you're winners, woohoo!

Please don't quality this anyone, it's just an add on of the other thread

Dragging Some Fun Back To The Sift, Kickin' and Bitchin'!

Alright peeps, how's it hangin? I'm back, I know you all missed me. Don't bother saying you hadn't noticed, it's obvious the huge void i'd left in your lives. But fear not! I bring with me some more pointless yet wonderful sift posts to get all your juices flowing so to speak What now you say? Well...

This time i'd like you all to tell me a story. Something that has happened in your life. It doesn't matter what, it could be the worst, best, scariest, funniest thing to have occured. Highlights, turning points, weepies any life dramas i'd love to hear.

So of course I wouldn't expect you to do this for nowt. Two promotes are up for grabs. Please upvote any story that entertained you in any way. Once those posts get applauded they will be in the running to win, but (teehee) my decision will be final

Enjoy guys!

http://woohoo.videosift.com/talk/And-The-Winner-Is-1

Post Your Top Ever Vid Here!

Alright gang, just as a start to getting the votes back on high rated videos use this thread here to post the #1 video you had pre 3/11. Then please take the time to go through the list of everyone elses and upvote if you did before.

Keep it up everyone, we're doing great!


*Please don't quality this, for clear up purposes only


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