I wish you could, too.
The reason you don't see down-votes around here scud in my estimation is that historically on this site, balls don't drop until there's something passionate to hide behind while three or more distracted members of the same camp wail like mourners at a funeral in Istanbul. The whole while missing forests for toothpick sculptures of famous landmarks.

He got an NPR exec fired and made ACORN eat their own shit. Good guy. So he takes license with and spins stories the way his particular illusions play-out. SO does every editorializing clueless monkey in journalism.

As I say with any news or any opinion of current world affairs. Half the facts means you know dick.

Now I feel like MacGuyver. Add in a paperclip and a toothpick and we'll have an explosive device!

I think I may have gotten it to work on the toothpick one but I can't be sure. There is a new "feature" where all comments on a killed video vanish. Someone made a talk thread about it and I posted to that thread as well.

Hello. I was going to help test out the new ability for a submitter to mark their own video *dupeof= however I ran into a new "feature" while testing.

In my dupe video you asked me to try again, but now that the video is killed all the comments have vanished. See here http://videosift.com/video/Kinetic-toothpick-sculpture-of-San-Francisco-took-35-years?noredirect

There is a talk thread about comments vanishing on killed videos http://videosift.com/talk/No-longer-able-to-view-comments-on-killed-videos-2


Secondly I tried to run the *isdupe on another of my videos and got the error from siftbot that I am not privileged. See here http://videosift.com/video/Beyonces-Single-Ladies-Dance-by-7-year-olds

Thank you for trying to get these changes in place. It may not seem like much but at least for me as a regular user I would feel a little less powerless

I can confirm this is broken

There was a discussion going on a dupe video, where I was going to help troubleshoot if the changes to allow a submitter mark a video as a duplicate and now I cant see the comments!
http://videosift.com/video/Kinetic-toothpick-sculpture-of-San-Francisco-took-35-years?noredirect

15 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.

This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by braschlosan.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/35-yrs-constructing-San-Francisco-replica-out-of-toothpicks

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/35-yrs-constructing-San-Francisco-replica-out-of-toothpicks

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by deathcow. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

Maybe it won't allow a dupeof because this embed is already a backup on the original?

http://videosift.com/video/100-000-toothpicks-over-the-course-of-35-years-equals-this?noredirect

It's actually just a siftbot glitch that allowed you to post this in the first place.

@lucky760 why did siftbot allow this duplicate embed? Do you want to know when this happens?

Oh I thought since I am not privileged it wouldnt allow those invocations

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/35-yrs-constructing-San-Francisco-replica-out-of-toothpicks

As the submitter, you can do that yourself and it doesn't need to be seconded.

Just do:

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/35-yrs-constructing-San-Francisco-replica-out-of-toothpicks

Crap. This is a dupe of an already sifted video from youtube. Can someone dupe it and instead add it as a backup to this - http://videosift.com/video/35-yrs-constructing-San-Francisco-replica-out-of-toothpicks

Card tricks and magic, toothpick sculptures and other intense time-burners: the domain of the incarcerated. Upvote.