This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by alien_concept. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Ernie-jacks-off-Bert

@alien_concept upvoted both of them, and might now make the dupeof invocation official since I'm not privileged.

Invocations (dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Ernie-jacks-off-Bert) cannot be called by messenger because messenger is not privileged - sorry.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'cat, balloon, birthday, bert' to 'cat, balloon, birthday, bert, killed mah ballewn' - edited by calvados

Thanks for the quality doublepromote

In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
*doublepromote *quality

Good for you, bert. I hope you're having a blast in the big apple.

Thanks for the advice and suggestions..I've thought about this..and it would be nice to start my own channel. I just haven't really felt too much compulsion to join the video rat race..but perhaps I will take your advice and get my bronze star. I don't think I'll be able to compete with anyone here though for the latest and greatest..i'll probably have to content myself with cat videos.

>> ^shuac:
Regarding the selection of which videos to attempt to sift: I too find that the videos I'm most passionate about (which are usually scenes from my favorite movies) do just as abysmally, upvote-wise, as the ones you seem to feel passionate about. We all have our own passions and one man's treasure and all that...
In order to get your star level up (and more importantly, earn the right to downvote) you may need to do what the rest of us did in our early Videosift days: do the monkey dance. By that, I mean you may need to sift videos you might not otherwise have thought to sift. Cat/dog/animal videos are generally pretty popular and they're virtually a guaranteed sift. Any kind of comedic presentation by Cracked or College Humor and the like are also popular. The Daily Show/Colbert Report are quite siftable too.
More subtly, unusual / comedic titles can be used to pique curiosity or emphasize the comedy. Here's a great example: http://videosift.com/video/Ernie-and-Bert-go-BALLISTIC
In short: play the percentages. Once you get your bronze star, it's all downhill from there.

Regarding the selection of which videos to attempt to sift: I too find that the videos I'm most passionate about (which are usually scenes from my favorite movies) do just as abysmally, upvote-wise, as the ones you seem to feel passionate about. We all have our own passions and one man's treasure and all that...

In order to get your star level up (and more importantly, earn the right to downvote) you may need to do what the rest of us did in our early Videosift days: do the monkey dance. By that, I mean you may need to sift videos you might not otherwise have thought to sift. Cat/dog/animal videos are generally pretty popular and they're virtually a guaranteed sift. Any kind of comedic presentation by Cracked or College Humor and the like are also popular. The Daily Show/Colbert Report are quite siftable too.

More subtly, unusual / comedic titles can be used to pique curiosity or emphasize the comedy. Here's a great example: http://videosift.com/video/Ernie-and-Bert-go-BALLISTIC

In short: play the percentages. Once you get your bronze star, it's all downhill from there.

Think Eric Bert had anything to do with this vid?

Sounds like Q*bert did the intro.

I understand this problem, but I think the solution is a poor one. Just saying "you won't get anything for this" makes me go "fuck that then". And that's a bad thing, because if it makes me do that, it makes others do that, and then the whole idea of dead fixes is undermined or at least slowed a great deal.

I would be better to just get like 20 % of a power point, represented as a bar on your profile. Every time you hit 100 %, you get a new power point. If you really, really want to limit them, to can change the the fraction you get every time, so the first 2-3 points in a day is easy, but it gets harder and harder. And reset it once a day or something.
>> ^kronosposeidon:

I think the logic behind the current functionality is this: If any gold star member or above can earn three power points just by fixing dead videos, then there would be a lot more frontpaged Sift Talks and blog posts. In other words they made it deliberately difficult, so that there wouldn't be a procession of one frontpaged post after another. I understand that decision, but I do agree that we should put bert's post on the frontpage.

man,i cant even imagine what it must be like.
glad your ok bert..stay that way my friend and keep us posted.

I think the logic behind the current functionality is this: If any gold star member or above can earn three power points just by fixing dead videos, then there would be a lot more frontpaged Sift Talks and blog posts. In other words they made it deliberately difficult, so that there wouldn't be a procession of one frontpaged post after another. I understand that decision, but I do agree that we should put bert's post on the frontpage.

It takes 3 power points to frontpage a Sift Talk or blog post, which I don't have. However I will *promote it, and throw in a *quality for good measure.

I hope you and your friends and family are safe, bert. Take care. >> ^berticus:

why can't i frontpage.. is that a two point trick? DAMN IT

>> ^lantern53:

'launched from Q-Bert'?
wha...


Ah yes, the start of the dreaded Q-bert Wars. I took that class.