I think you should cast your vote for it

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
"What you think about that?"

It wasn't exactly a solicitation -- more of a prediction. You should try searching comments for it (not easy because search doesn't work well with the short words). You might be surprised.

In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
If this had been youtube then we'd probably see a couple of pages of comments like that. However, unless there's a paradigm shift on the sift, I think it's safe to say we try and hold ourselves to a higher standard.

Some Chuck Heston for ya:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-War-Lord-1965

Hey thanks! That was always one of my favorites.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
*promote

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Auto-play and auto-download embeds are officially frowned upon. (There's yet to be a need for a written rule.)

I tried playing with the embed code, but I can't make it stop auto-playing. Anyone know of a different host with the video or how to make vidilife vids stop auto-playing?


The following code does not appear to auto play:

<embed id='vidilife_movie' name='vidilife_movie' width='445' height='363'
src='http://www.vidiLife.com/flash/flvplayer.swf?xml=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2EvidiLife%2Ecom%2Fmedia%2Fplay%5Fflash%5Fxml%2Ecfm%3Fid%3DE12CA15E%252DC90F%252
D4575%252D808A%252D6%26f%3Dflash8%26embed%3Dtrue' quality='high' bgcolor='white' play='true' loop='false'
allowScriptAccess='sameDomain' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'>

In reply to this comment by reallyboredofcollege:
Hey Twiddles [... really long series of comments]
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Understand that I was not or am not trying to insult you, single you out or require you to explain yourself. I take you at your word for the way you reacted. And I am not personally insulted by the word cunt. Some people are however and I am tired, bored and dismayed at the amount of vulgarities deployed on this site on a daily basis. I could have easily said the same thing in perhaps a dozen other recent threads. My ire is directed at so many people that just click and vote without thinking or providing other view points.

While you may not come here to earn points the system never the less awards them. This sets up a system designed to get people to incorporate shock value or humor where not always appropriate in my view. There have always been people here who've used vulgarities and insults. I may have even let my emotions get the better of me from time to time. Believe me, I am no saint and swear under my breath frequently. But if I have nothing better to say than so-and-so is a cunt, as a personal rule I try to keep my mouth shut.

Cool, we could use more bluegrass.

In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
I'm going to try to fix that one.. in the meantime:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Earl-Scruggs-Doc-Watson-Ole-John-Hardy

In reply to this comment by twiddles:
Oh poor Doc is *dead

Your video http://www.videosift.com/video/Ethics-during-War-Time is dead but a replacement is here: http://www.videosift.com/video/All-American-Boneheads

Well uh, thanks but it would have had a better chance if you would have re-sifted it. If it gets another 10 views and no votes I'm going to toss it again

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
What? Discarded? No! *save!

I just happened to stumble upon the dupe a few minutes before I saw yours. Search is not working so hot. Sometimes to be absolutely thorough I've gone out to google and done a site search.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
crap. did a search and couldn't believe it wasn't here already. thanks for the heads up.

In reply to this comment by twiddles:
Guess what? Dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Luckiest-Man-Alive

Oh just looked at the Top Sifts for all time arranged by date and went back in time to the age of the video in question (page 1242 or there abouts). All videos after that are older (1335 - 1242 = 93 pages of 15 videos each = ~1300 some odd videos).

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
How do you go about finding that?

In reply to this comment by twiddles:
Not saying anyone was right or wrong, but I'd like to point out that according to Top Sifts there were actually over 1300 videos at the time.

I'm just lucky at finding them I suppose. This one happened to be one I was considering for promotion.

In reply to this comment by arvana:
Thanks for being my 'duplicate' police.

Sifty usually catches those, but he seems to be napping sometimes!

Sorry, meant to reply sooner, but forgot o_O

Thanks for the compliment. It's okay with the star, the change was my idea. I only thought I'd make silver, but the dead videos kept coming.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Oh no - they took your gold away?! Lol, they should have let you keep the silver at least. I had a similar idea, just not nearly on as grand a scale. Brilliant try and awesome job fixing all those vids.