I'm fairly new around here and I need some enlightenment.

I don't care about the fight from another thread spilling over here, but doesn't the mere mention of the Illuminati invoke one of the biggest conspiracy theories of all time? I see your point about this being a parody of conspiracy people, but by that parody they are talking about the theory (I don't buy it BTW).

They're making fun of a real conspiracy theory. Should The Daily Show be included in the "news" channel? I say yes--but conspiracy is your channel, so it's your call.

Thanks

In reply to this comment by Duckman33:
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

If you have something to say about @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/marbles" title="member since May 7th, 2011" class="profilelink">marbles, at least have the courtesy to do so in his presence. Calling him out in a thread where he has not yet uttered a word is unsporting.


He/she/it is just being a douche to the nth degree because he/she/it thinks there are no such things as conspiracies and that anyone who thinks there are is an idiot. Yes ponc we all know our government would NEVER lie to us, the American people, EVER, right? I'm so glad they found those WMD's in Iraq. Or else that would mean they lied to get us into an unnecessary war.

Sorry but this doesn't qualify for my channel, it's comedy not a conspiracy *nochannel *spacy *lies *comedy

>> ^Duckman33:

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
If you have something to say about @marbles, at least have the courtesy to do so in his presence. Calling him out in a thread where he has not yet uttered a word is unsporting.

He/she/it is just being a douche to the nth degree because he/she/it thinks there are no such things as conspiracies and that anyone who thinks there are is an idiot. Yes ponc we all know our government would NEVER lie to us, the American people, EVER, right? I'm so glad they found those WMD's in Iraq. Or else that would mean they lied to get us into an unnecessary war.
Sorry but this doesn't qualify for my channel, it's comedy not a conspiracy nochannel spacy lies comedy


As for there being no conspiracies, duckman, you have me in error. I am absolutely the first to say that the government CAN lie to us. The lack of WMD was a real travesty and showed how a few people could blow bad intelligence into an excuse for going to war. That said, there is a VERY big difference between the quite provable WMD incident and the Building 7 thing which it seems like there can't be any amount of logic or evidence to convince the truthers.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

If you have something to say about @marbles, at least have the courtesy to do so in his presence. Calling him out in a thread where he has not yet uttered a word is unsporting.


He/she/it is just being a douche to the nth degree because he/she/it thinks there are no such things as conspiracies and that anyone who thinks there are is an idiot. Yes ponc we all know our government would NEVER lie to us, the American people, EVER, right? I'm so glad they found those WMD's in Iraq. Or else that would mean they lied to get us into an unnecessary war.

Sorry but this doesn't qualify for my channel, it's comedy not a conspiracy *nochannel *spacy *lies *comedy

Thanks, ponce!!

In reply to this comment by ponceleon:
Man, that other bird anticipates every fucking move I make!

*quality

*quality

Allow me, ponce. I tried to sift this recently and found it already here.

>> ^ponceleon:

Need to requality this later when I have a point... AAAAAHHHH the French!

>> ^ponceleon:

Why do people keep saying he was an amateur? He was a police officer. He was anything but an amateur.


ponc, im saying he's an amateur, my above comment will give that context

hes as much an amateur as the dumbfuck dea agent who shot himself giving a weapon safety class http://videosift.com/video/DEA-Officer-Shoots-Self-in-Foot-while-giving-demo-on-gun-safety

Thought we had laws or something...ponce informs me that we don't, we're just teams competing with eachother.

Thank you Ponce!

In reply to this comment by ponceleon:
*quality

Agree with Ponce above ^. I agree with Jesse that religion is the root of all evil, he's spot on. But he really starts denting his credibility with all the conspiracy theories.

Congrats ponce!

I was really amazed at the episode a week or two ago where Conrad turned out to be Inspector #5 and had let Bender go through the assembly line despite being defective because he had pity on him... that was really unexpected. Nearly had me in tears. Yes, Ponce is sometimes totally a pussy.

>> ^thinker247:

Ponce, did you really change the tag to "makup?" At least spell it right.
Oh, and the "spirit of the Sift" is a cat fart and a bunch of dudes jacking it to any uncovered female skin. I ruined nothing.


Sorry Thinker but I disagree with what you did. Let me recap for those who didn't see: You marked this with all sorts of channels which had nothing to do with what she is talking about such as middle east, politics, religion, waronterror, etc.

If she had actually talked about those things, and been the total idiot she is, that would be one thing, but she does not have anything to do with those channels and has nothing to do with them. It is one thing to title it the way that you did, that much is fine, but to claim that the video contains content it doesn't is just going to encourage the inaccuracy of searches on the sift. If I am looking for a video on something involving those topics and I'm led to this, I'd be pretty pissed. It is the EXACT same thing as putting a bunch of irrelevant tags on the now famous "Rickrioll" video in an effort to get people to watch something they don't want to.

Now, Thinker, I like you a lot, your sifts are usually quality. In fact, I'll go as far as to say that you have a real find here in terms of discovering one of the internet's newest sensations as far as vapid wastes of space. But I think it has been established that joke channelling isn't really right. I'll also go on to say that you caught me at a really testy time yesterday. I was pissed about a lot of stuff and this bitch really just pushed my buttons. SOOOO! In the effort not to be acting as the judge here, why don't we:

*discuss

Ponce, did you really change the tag to "makup?" At least spell it right.

Oh, and the "spirit of the Sift" is a cat fart and a bunch of dudes jacking it to any uncovered female skin. I ruined nothing.

A poem by Ponce,

Fuck tiger woods
Fuck tiger woods' swedish nanny wife
Fuck tiger woods' kids
Fuck tiger woods' mistresses
Fuck tiger woods' dead father
Fuck tiger woods' golf talent
Fuck tiger woods' products that he wants me to buy

"Banned Doritos Commercial" is the title that he put on the video here. No one changed that title (just look at the URL). But, if you pause the video and look on the top left, or if you go to the video at youtube, you can see the actual title of the video. Anyway, sorry you don't agree, it's clearly a self link to me, and like I said in that post, he was admin banned. I'm all for second chances, he can create a new account. Hopefully one where he'll read the huge pop-up that warns you before submitting not to self link.

In reply to this comment by Shepppard:
That's not a lot to really go on for deciding a self link. The guy may have just named himself that because he thought it was funny, we've got users named Marinara and Direpickle, both could also be used as names for chip flavours. The "Thanks for your support" could have been from him thanking people for voting for his first video.

However, by the time I had got there, the name of the video was changed to "Banned doritos commercial" so I didn't know the name was the same. Although, that's still not really grounds for a self link.

The spam in his description however is a more suitable reason for banning.

Sorry, but I'm just a bit touchy on the subject right now, because a few weeks ago someone posted a self link without reading the guidelines, and enough of us downvoted the video so it would be discarded and he wouldn't get banned. An hour or two later, I sent him the quote about posting guidelines, and he sent me a private message back appologising and asking "So, I can post videos about other things not submitted by me, things I like, right?"

and before I could message him back, he was banned by someone, which is unfortunate because there's people like ponce and kulpims that got a second chance, but for whatever reason they weren't given one.

Not blaming you, its just that since then I've been a bit.. touchy, on the issue.
In reply to this comment by burdturgler:
It's a doritos contest submission where the title of the video is the same as the username here. How is it anything other than a self link. The fuck? Look, I take banning pretty seriously, I didn't call out a self link ban because it "may or may not be one". It's a self link.