I'll second what kronos said in his first post. I submit mostly music videos and it's becoming harder and harder to find a source without an ad before it. Plus, all the YouTube, commercial-free ones are dropping like flies because of copyright claims.

I hate them as much as you and have looked at every option for an ad-free version, but sometimes it's just not possible. I usually opt for Yahoo over Daily Motion because Yahoo shows a 30-second ad, but only every few times you watch a video, while DM plays a 15-second ad every single time. In the end, a 30- or 15-second ad won't kill you... just mute it, stare at the ceiling, and think about butterflies and lollipops for a while.

Also agree with eric. Downvote if you want to. They shouldn't be taken so seriously and are up to your discretion.

thank you kronos!

I think she is cute... and there is photographic evidence I am better looking than at least Kronos.

Not sure-The louder I scream "shit or get off the pot" the longer they wait to see how I respond to the battery of reactions to my presence. Maybe they all wait for choggie to pop again...s'been 3 weeks 2 days and they gave me an open-ended time period of hobble. New rules? The worst part is that I can't get rid of the graffiti on my store front. No editing powers. I did manage to get rid of my old avatar pic, but can't add a new one. They had left some powers intact upon re-entry and when I mentioned they were there they quickly removed them.
I am the little boy running down a waxed wood floor in socks with a pair of scissors in one hand and a box of matches in the other remember? Oh yeah, and I can't make private comments either. Might offend the devout by entering their sacred temples naked and armed...
In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Thanks, choggie. It's been a crazy trip. When are you losing those cuffs?

In reply to this comment by choggie:
good luck with your film, pardner
In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Kronos sees it every night.

Thanks, choggie. It's been a crazy trip. When are you losing those cuffs?

In reply to this comment by choggie:
good luck with your film, pardner
In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Kronos sees it every night.

good luck with your film, pardner
In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Kronos sees it every night.

Kronos sees it every night.

Oh...yeah, and I had the ability to post a poll as well upon my return in chains that too has been adjusted. I have been told by the admins that for some unknown duration I will be kept in stasis. That's cool-hedging bets(tr-v) on their part between both sides of an abyss, will keep the rabble down, the monkey house warm and quiet for the time being.

Word to the cheap seats: I care not about posting polls, OR creating a new channel. I simply wish to be the fly I had always been...ointment lube and soup garnish, nose-tickler and sting your ass on the beach..

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Glad to see you are back Kronos(don;t ever speak to me again ever)posiden.

It's Lobot from Star Wars. I'm not good with these so this is the one Kronos made when he went on that photoshop binge last year. I would've liked a more relevent character but whatever, beggers can't be choosers right?

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
LOL @ your avatar variation!!! Nice one! Is it a Frankenstein hybrid?

Everything has an effect, whether people take them too seriously is another issue. It seems to me that you are still hounding me for something I did not do and for one stupid comment. I don't appreciate that. Of anyone, you ought to be the one to rise above it as an admin, but that's your deal.

It is unfair to blame me personally if people have a terrible past with choggie - I don't want people like netrunner and kronos to hate ME if he comes back - I'm only one vote, the 38 others carry as much responsibility for that.

If you, dag, are going to cop out and enforce this, even if the scores are relatively even, then I would just *discard if I could that on my own poll and keep my nose out of this whole fertid mess.

In fact, anyone with the power to do so, has my blessing - then you can make your own poll at some point and I can ignore it.



>> ^dag:
Sorry, no cop-outs Gwiz. We've made it clear that we'll take the results of polls seriously. I'll make the decision (as your democratically appointed dictator) but I'll certainly take this into consideration as "the will of the community".
If there's one achievement I'd like for this site- it would be a collective recognition among the community that your actions count for something here. This isn't fucking Digg where you get the feeling you are pissing into the wind.
Along with that collective recognition- I would hope that someday soon you personally, Gwiz would recognise that the things you do on here effect real human beings in the community and outside of it.
>> ^gwiz665:
I want to make this abundantly clear - whatever the outcome of this poll, this is only an indicator. Whatever the result, it should not necessarily be done "because it's been in a poll".
I don't want to cause bad blood between myself and any of you other fine sifters because I made this poll, so to dag and lucky, do please only use this as data for your consideration instead of merely caving in to majority. If choggie himself comes and asks to be reinstated, or allowed to be here under a new guise, then you can take this into account. It seems that he's caused a lot of damage and if he hasn't I think he ought to apologize to you for it before he's allowed to stay.




Fair enough, kp. I apologize for reading too much into your actions.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
For the record, gwiz, dag banneed one of choggie's sock puppets:
http://www.videosift.com/member/14151
So if dag banned him on sight 9.5. months ago, then why shouldn't we do the same? Dag's actions clearly indicated that choggie is persona non grata here, so that's why I was justified in instabanning on other occasions. So don't editorialize about blankfist and me being his "personal punishers." He was banned for repeatedly breaking the rules, and blankfist and I were following up on that decision.
I didn't editorialize about your motives, did I? Have a little fuckking respect already.

I would hardly call what I've done here as begging. I do think that his original ban was justified, but I don't think it should be a personal ban rather than a account ban. Why do we ban? To protect the integrity of the sift, would be my answer. We do that by stripping the powers, not by stifling comments.

I think it has been farcical that kronos and blankfist has had to be the personal punishers of choggie, but I suppose there's a lot of bad blood there.

If he cannot behave under a new guise, then I'm all for making it permanent, really permanent, but until then, I don't think his new personas have really broken any rules at all, they've just been banned because it's choggie - I don't like that.

That's it.

>> ^campionidelmondo:
>> ^gwiz665:
The thing is, that if he is allowed to return we will be monitoring him and if he gets any smart ideas we do have hobble available and if it comes to it, we can always ban again and say the experiment failed.

And then a couple of months after banning him again, people can start begging for his return again. And thus, the circle of life continues...

This is my (supposed 1000th vote thanks to the debacle that shall not be named) 1000th vote, so you should feel elated beyond all compare: I only vote for works of art, triumphs of human ingenuity, the epitome of human stupidity--and to what lengths it goes, feats that are near superhuman in nature, movies that wrench your soul, music that feeds your soul, and the feces that monkies throw.

May you shine bright in this engulfment of recognition!

Bravo, sir, bravo....

(it would have made a better tribute if it was not krono, as his star points and ego are near super-critical levels already,)

no, no, kronos. those mtv embeds are only viewable in the US. there are plenty of other embeds around. Hope you don't mind me *deading this, dft.

^ kronos: http://xkcd.com/596/

quality is far more effective. Kronos qualitied this post when it had 103 votes. Now it has 180. With a promote it would maybe have gotten a maximum of 20 more votes.