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Ah, that makes sense of it. From the video it seemed like she was driven by indignation and old lady fearlessness. Which is fine by it's self. But the real story is far more admirable and touching.

Your video, Fearless High-Speed Skateboarder Sets Off Speed Camera, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Fearless for sure - should anything go wrong, they are pretty much dead. Caves are the last place I want to be when scuba diving.

Well, excuse me, but I am offended that my criticism of the promote system is being written off as purely self-interest. I stopped promoting because I didn't want to mess with other Sifters' promotes -- how is that being selfish about my own presentation?

I understand that lucky and dag have a duty to the site as a whole. Which is why I asked the question -- how many complaints were generated about the old system? That was a real question. Those of us on the site a lot can get stuck in our own bubble. If there have been complaints about how the site was working, then we all need to know about them. Something put a burr under dag and lucky's saddle about the way promotes used to work -- but I just don't see it and they aren't helping me to understand.

And -- for whatever was prompting this overhaul of the promote system, lucky's new solution is fine. Meets their interest of minimizing the number of promotes on the front page -- lets Sifters promote without worrying about messing with other Sifters promotes -- promoted videos no longer look like ads and they will have full data without having to click through.

I am beginning to wonder if this whole promote controversy is related to mass number of Sifters finally figuring out that they can work cooperatively to get their vids promoted -- to promote your own costs two power points. If you work cooperatively with someone else, you each get a promoted vid for the cost of one power point. And hence the number of promoted vids went up.

I don't see that as a problem in and of itself. I think that makes for a stronger community, where we work together so all can succeed. It encourages conversation between Sifters, which is all to the good of the community.

I really appreciate dag and lucky and all that they put into this site. I appreciate that my opinion is asked. I am not above begging for my point of view. Bottom line, though, it is dag and lucky's deal and I suspect that they are privy to issues and complaints that we know nothing about.

Thanks, our fearless leaders. I appreciate the opportunity to offer my two cents. And I appreciate that you guys clearly are taking EVERYONE'S two cents into account.

Methinks thou dost protest too much, keep running through my head.

Ms Palmer is an amazing fearless performer. Dang.

Man, I haven't watched a martial arts film in ages.

The thing I always liked about Jackie Chan was the humour and ingenuity of the choreography. The fight scene at the end of Fearless with the 3 segment whip and Katana is probably my favorite though.

Not sure if I hear Dead Weather, they seem to have a more experimental sound... and have Jack White which equals win, though I prefer the singer in Nico Vega, and I think this song fits the game better than Dead Weather. Shamelss self promote of the song: http://videosift.com/video/Nico-Vega-Beast-Live-On-Fearless-Music

>> ^zaust:

Song sounds like a bad Dead Weather song - turns out it's "Nico Vega".
They should have got the Dead Weather.

It's important to let your kids know that they are more capable and fearless than you. Otherwise you aren't doing your job.

Ooh! New 'hope!

Having just listened to the entire thing, I got curious about the ubiquitous "12 Step Programs" and I realized I'd never known what the actual 12 steps were. And since we have this worldwide repository of knowledge humankind has never known before at our fingertips, I found the following official 12 steps (emphasis mine):

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12.Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Wow. Douggie wasn't kidding, was he? So apparently, foxholes and alcoholism have something else in common!

So awesome. And fearless. Dynos (the jump-type moves) on lead climbs are scary! These ladies appear to have no fear, no end to flexibility and strength, and no extra body weight to haul up. The dudes are okay too =P.

As much as I agree with you, our Fearless Leader changed the definition of a dupe and codified it in writing. Emphasis added.

"If a newer submission's video is a clip of content found within an existing post, it will be considered a duplicate unless it meets both these criteria:

The original post is at least 15 minutes in length
The original post is at least 3 times longer than the clip

If a duplicate cannot adequately be considered an exact or reasonable replacement of the original, it should be *discarded."

That last line is to prevent bad back-up embeds.

So this dupe process can't continue without screwing up the backup embed, and so it falls to dft to discard it.

For the record, I think this stinks. We had a Sift Talk with overwhelming support that a dupe is an exact duplicate. This was over-ridden by the Power That Is (Lucky on his own) when someone ignored that Sift Talk vote and called dupe on something that clearly wasn't a dupe.

I understand why Lucky did it, I think -- I think he did it because he was sick to death of all the squabbling over the definition of a dupe, so he just laid down the law.

So, dft, you "have" to discard this video. Or -- start a Sift Talk about it. Or pull this vid into discuss. Which is pretty ironic, given that Lucky wrote those rules just so he wouldn't have to listen to us squabble anymore.

As if the Sift could exist without squabbling.....



>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

^But that video has so many words. Mine only has one. notadupe.org.com

@hpqp
I thought we might have a conversation.
Instead you come-out-of-the-box and imply I'm a coward.

Let me guess--you, an Atheist, are strong and fearless; while Agnostics are cowardly and timid. You bravely stand up and proudly proclaim to the world your strength--while agnostics cower behind in uncertainty and fear. Get over yourself--you do not know my life, or the people I've stood up to over this, during it.

[Edit] You're still one of my favorite sifters

I think Obama's message of unity and equality (gay rights/DADT) was the message of his election campaign. Fiscal policy didn't really make the news until the Wall Street collapse, as Bush's wars and tax cuts heaped layers of fat onto the tub of lard that is the federal debt. I don't think he's gone any further left.

At the same time, I don't think he's gone to the right. As the prospect of unifying the house became more and more unlikely, with Dem's giving up almost every concession the Rep's wanted in the debt bill it's easy to conclude that he's shifted to the right. I don't think it's a matter of him selling out to the Rep's. I think it's the crappy hand he was dealt and forced to play with, while keeping his face fearless and confident for his people.

I think it's a symptom of a broken system, and this is what the OWS movement is all about.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^volumptuous:
Obama's gone further to the left? HAHAHAHAHAH. Who is he, Newt Gingrich?

Yeah, that's a confusing statement. Obama is practically a Republican at this point.