No I think they are very competent at keeping us in the dark.

No serial numbers on the guns so we can't find out that we sold them to our enemies. Barrels of oil don't have identification. And money doesn't have to be bills, we could've just shuffled out credit, the most untraceable form of currency yet.

And I hate it when people tell me that I'm unpatriotic for hating Bush.

I think that should change as well...

...The current self promotion rule is a bad idea with the best of intentions. In the world of free email services such as Yahoo or Gmail you can easily establish multiple untraceable video hosting accounts and then submit them using another identity on the sift. I have suspected self promotion more than once on sifted videos, but had no way to prove a link. So as it is currently situated the rule rewards less than honest people, while penalizing honest ones.

The sift already has the tools and the user base to deal with crappy videos. If they are not siftworthy, we can down vote them. If the video is over bounds of acceptability we can discard it. Why not allow the community to decide.

When the sift bans someone for whatever reason, it's a lost member, someone who could have subscribed, and/or submitted sift worthy content in the future. It is also lost advertising revenue...