He is the Campion, my friends!
And he'll keep on posting to the end.
He is the Campion! He is the Campion!
No time for dra-ma, cause he is da Campion.....of the Siiiiiiiiiift!

Congrats on the ruby! Joo are da mang, mang!

forza fabio, campione del sift! thanks for all your great sifts, scripts & that wonderful 4.0 design.

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Totally subjective. I still roll with classic - not to belittle Campion's great design, because it's fab - but black websites say "WoW Forum" to me.

oh dear lord, campion.

They way I figure it, the average tax-paying American owes ($65,000,000,000,000/150,000,000) = $43,333 on top of whatever private debt they already have; which for many many people, who own a house, is somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,0000. When you have a nation full of people in debt somewhere between $43,333-$193,333+, in what sense can the average American be said to have nothing to do with this mess?

>> ^rougy:
I don't want to rag on you, Campion, because you make some good points, but the "average American" had nothing to do with this mess.

I don't want to rag on you, Campion, because you make some good points, but the "average American" had nothing to do with this mess.

These were boardroom swindles. They knew Bush and the SEC would look the other way and they took all that they could while the getting was good.

This crisis is not about Americans living beyond their means: it's about the bankers, the sellers, and the speculators robbing us blind because they knew that the fox was guarding the henhouse.

Campion, "voice of descent"? Is that humor or ...? (cause here in America it's spelled "dissent")

BTW everyone, how's this for American:

You know what pisses me off more than the bailout? Comedy Central's completely F-ing ridiculous video player. This player is the biggest piece of crap on the internet. I can't pause it and let the whole thing buffer so I usually just get about 15 seconds of good video, then the rest comes in two second increments, then the whole thing craps out.

If I could just work my dehumanizing but still overpaying job and go home and watch the Daily Show in peace, then I wouldn't have to care about anything. Now I have to pay attention to the world's problems.

The comments under discussion here are public, not private, despite having been left on thepinky's profile. I and many others visit the "Recent Comments" page as much or more than any other page on the site. Last night, I happened to be tracking multiple discussions that way. And so I and others were forced to see the final blows between them unfold.

When I saw UsesProzac's comment, I was repulsed, even before clicking on the image link. Yes, I saw what the filename was in my status bar, but I clicked anyway because I half expected it to be something humorous - foolish me. But even leaving the image aside, much of the rest of the comment was a clear violation of the commenting guidelines. That UsesProzac would be unlikely to be able to carry out such a threat is irrelevant - the threat of physical violence is there nonetheless. I'm not going to play semantic games defining "wish", "will", etc. The intent of the comment is clear.

No doubt many people have written some pretty nasty things around here, myself included. Generally, though, such outbursts are followed by a redaction, an apology, or at least some admission that it was out of line (and possibly alcohol inspired). That's why I thought calling for this Siftquistion last night was hasty. Now that UsesProzac has responded and shown zero remorse for such statements, even defends them, I am inclined to change my vote. And I never vote for bans.



On the more general theme about free speech and monitoring of peoples' comments. Free speech has limits. You are not free to threaten others with physical violence, or try to intimidate and harass them. And if you don't want your comments monitored, what are you doing posting comments on a public internet forum? Seriously, monitoring others' comments is the only mechanism for keeping track of ongoing discussions.

When I first joined VS, calling someone out like this in public was pretty seriously frowned upon. It now seems encouraged. This is a very bad trend that will only lead to more strife. I think campion was right dag - this is the sort of thing that could be handled far more effectively with a little, you guessed it, authoritarianism. It's a great experiment you've got going here, but if you let it get out of control, the experiment will fail (cf. Stanford Prison experiment).

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Campion, How have we established that democracy doesn't work? Whatever the final vote turns out to be - I think we will have established that democracy does work. I am not going to ban/suspend her.

campion, i don't expect americans to even know where russia is on the map, which is why i will always point out a few facts whenever the opportunity comes along. just to maybe combat 0.00000001% of the retardation in the world.

i just don't like russians being used as "the people it's ok to make fun of", replacing niggers and faggots in the sad history of human ignorance.

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Holy smokes, VideoSift dark is hot - I have to admit. We just need to fix the jaggies on the logo.

You do great work Campion!

@K0M: You'd better believe I'm ashamed to call myself a Californian right now.
@campion: Nope, SF county is 99% reporting last I checked.

There can be only one
There can be only one
Well there can be only one
There can be only one

Campione, campione, ole, ole, ole!

Most importantly, can you perform the final scene of "I, Robot" without making the screeching metal on metal sound?

Also campion, what percentage of people do YOU think lost more than one hand out of stupidity? Whoops, i just chainsawed a hand off accidentally whilst trying to balance it on my index finger. Perhaps i can do it with my other hand WHOOPS there goes another.

This can't be anything other than a vast minority, surely. I'd bet my arse that 99.9% of people who need a bionic arm are all equally deserving of the possibility

If you class a neglectful work injury as a "foolish" act, then you have to do the same for a soldier who doesn't follow SOP and gets limbs blown off.

(Just standing up for equality amongst people without limbs here)