Dear Mr. or Mrs. Oatmeal, My name is MAS8705 and I was wondering if your still on the sift or not... I have noticed that you have been MIA for the last few months and wasn't sure if you still wanted to hold the Videogame Channel or not... In case you do want the channel still, please respond so that I can claim another channel, or that if its ok with you, I could check with a Videosift higher up so that I can take over the channel... thank you for your time...

You must upvote all of my videos to manage the video games channel. By the way, "managing" a channel is so easy you can be MIA for three years and still have the same impact you would if you were here everyday. They run themselves.

Here’s gorgonheap’s Channel Roll Call post from about a month ago. Quite a few MIAs on there; the only new owner I know of is jimnms taking over the Religion channel.
But yeah, if more Gold 100s want to take over one, I think that would be helpful.

I'm certainly not MIA but I life and work means I can't spend the hours on VS that I used to. I still dip in and leave a comment but I'm unlikely to submit new videos.
I haven't been actively managing Bravo but perhaps I can be disciplined and put an hour per week to cleaning it up etc. At this point in time I don't wish to give up Bravo.

(updated July 4 2008)

After some thinking I created this (2b further tweaked) categorization based on joedirt's post. Most channels could fall into one (sub)category yet some were more vague in their description or channel name, which creates categorization problems which need to be attended. Here we go:

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Time
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80s: dag, active
future: jwray, active
vintage: swampgirl, active

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Geography
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asia: Lucky760, active
british: Zifnab, active
canada: Calvados, active
downunder: maatc, active

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Educational
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(general)
philosophy: bluecliff, MIA
science: rembar, active

(spirituality)
religion: jimnms, active
--> islam: Gwaan, MIA
cult: therealblankman, active

(natural world)
nature: Arvana, active
engineering: oxdottir, active
geek: gorgonheap, active
military: darksun, MIA
spacy: lunkwill, active

(social world)
history: rickegee, MIA
humanitarian: bl968, MIA
politics: Open
--> election 08: joedirt, active
--> war on terror: raven, MIA
--> world affairs: histnerd, active

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Identities/lifestyles
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catsanddogs: youdiejoe, active
drugs: rottenseed, active
geek: gorgonheap, active
kids: James Roe, active
sexuality: persephone, active
--> femme: intangiblemeg, MIA
--> gay: Open
travel: silvercord, ?


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Arts and Entertainment
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art: plastiquemonkey, active
animation: thesnipe, active
--> woo hoo: Krupo, active
bravo (italian): Deano, MIA
cinema: pigeon, ?
cooking: djsunkid, active
music: Open
--> hiphop: benjee, MIA
--> jazz/blues/soul: choggie, active
--> rocknroll: MLX, ?
--> livemusic: deathcow, active
shortfilms: Sarzy, active
sports: michie, MIA
videogames: Oatmeal, active

(a&e genres)
actionpack: wildmanbill, MIA
comedy: Open
--> stand up: winkler1, active
--> parody: dotdude, active
drugs: rottenseed, active
grindhouse: dw117, active
horror show: pyrex, MIA
mystery: grspec, MIA
scifi: Firefly, active
spacy: lunkwill, active
wild west show: Open

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Format
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1sttube: Grimm, active
books: kronosposeidon, active
bravo (italian): Deano, MIA
commercial: Looris, MIA
documentaries: Fedquip, active
howto: maudlin, MIA
latenight: eric3579, active
meme: MarineGunrock, active
shortfilms: Sarzy, active
viral: Open

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Opinions/Emotions
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cute: Open
dark: dystopianfututretoday, active
eia (stupid): karaidl, MIA
fear: blankfist, active
happy: Issykitty, active
lies: Fjnbk, active
obscure (underground): Farhad2000, active
terrible: sometimes, active
wtf: Spiff, ?


Mentioned twice:
-bravo (italian): Deano, MIA
-drugs: rottenseed, active
-geek: gorgonheap, active
-spacy: lunkwill, active

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Cultural
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80s: dag, active
asia: Lucky760, active
bravo (italian): Deano, MIA
british: Zifnab, active
canada: Calvados, active
downunder: maatc, active
kids: James Roe, active
geek: gorgonheap, active

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Entertainment
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1sttube: Grimm, active
vintage: swampgirl, active
animation: thesnipe, active
--> woo hoo: Krupo, active
latenight: eric3579, active

commercial: Looris, MIA
viral: Open
--> meme: MarineGunrock, active

comedy: Open
--> stand up: winkler1, active
--> parody: dotdude, active

music: Open
--> hiphop: benjee, MIA
--> jazz: choggie, active
--> rocknroll: MLX, ?
--> livemusic: deathcow, active

cinema: pigeon, ?
--> shortfilms: Sarzy, active
--> grindhouse: dw117, active

actionpack: wildmanbill, MIA
dark: dystopianfututretoday, active
horror show: pyrex, MIA
mystery: grspec, MIA
wild west show: Open
scifi: Firefly, active

documentaries: Fedquip, active

sports: michie, MIA

videogames: Oatmeal, active

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Educational
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art: plastiquemonkey, active
books: kronosposeidon, active
science: rembar, active
engineering: oxdottir, active
nature: Arvana, active
catsanddogs: youdiejoe, active
cooking: djsunkid, active
history: rickegee, MIA
military: darksun, MIA
spacey: lunkwill, active
travel: silvercord, ?
howto: maudlin, MIA

politics: Open
--> election 08: joedirt, active
--> war on terror: raven, MIA
--> world affairs: histnerd, active

religion: LadyBug, MIA
--> cult: therealblankman, active
--> islam: Gwann, MIA

humanitarian: bl968, MIA
philosophy: bluecliff, MIA

sexuality: persephone, active
--> femme: intangiblemeg, MIA
--> gay: Open




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Other
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cute: Open
--> happy: Issykitty, active
obscure: Farhad2000, active
terrible: sometimes, active
eia: karaidl, MIA
fear: blankfist, active
lies: Fjnbk, active
wtf: Spiff, ?

So far 22 out of 65 channel owners are MIA or questionable as to their activity. 7 channels have no owners. Now the question is what, if anything, should we do with the unattended channels?

Kids, but i have been mia for sure.

This nice cover of Nina Simone's original was covered very well by Santa Esmeralda in the 1970s.

Speaking of Fletch, to where has he gone? Another great Sifter found MIA.

>> ^gorgonheap:
Now the "Newest Channel Talk Posts" is MIA.


He didn't say how it was fixed. Maybe that WAS the fix!

Now the "Newest Channel Talk Posts" is MIA.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

If a mistake is made, the correct embed code should be sent to the original submitter to fix. If they are MIA, send it to an admin.

Yes he does. He's definitely among my favorite artists. Nice sifts, by the way.

In reply to this comment by dmaze:
Ted Leo rules. FYI this song is about eating disorders.

Good to have you back, I swear you've been MIA for a couple months.

In reply to this comment by firefly:
congrats (again!)
wow, was it really a year ago I posted that?!

This looks really familiar... It was on the sift a while ago but is MIA now. Darn Americans, stealing Olympic gold medals from North Korea because of a vastly larger population to draw from.