Dupes should be discarded regardless if they have made the front page or not. I am right about this? Someone back me up .

i wish there was a *mergevote or some other invocation, to merge the new votes that the dupes get with the older already established video, before the discard.

I always search before I post, but even then I sometimes miss the duplicate if the naming or description is too different and I didn't search on it. There won't ever be a perfect system so we just have to deal with the dupes when they happen.

My "Caught masturbating" video turned out to be a dupe, but I left it. In my defense, my title was a hell of a lot better, and the other member is MIA. Although I won't argue if someone else decides to discard it.

I always do a search for a couple of reasons: 1) I didn't want to look like a total idiot when making a P post. 2) I'd rather do all the work of searching before doing all the submit video stuff like thinking up titles or text or whatever. But I'm lazy that way. 3) If a video languished in the queue from a starred member, it sure as heck isn't going to make it out from a P-member.

@karaidl

So... Sometimes pointed it out as a dupe, and your excuse for not discarding it yourself (a gold star) is that the other poster isn't active enough, and that your title is better?

I have a question. Can/should gold status be revoked for shit like this?

You know what you need to do. Quit being a putz and discard it. This has been covered before.

I have a question. Can/should gold status be revoked for shit like this?

No, but in VS3 it might be revoked for any insulting comments that you like to spread around. Watch yourself, you said to me before that sarcasm and smarminess get the best of you. Why don't you take that glimmer of good sense you showed before and not be such a hothead? It's not your most redeeming trait and you haven't been making friends with quite a few people around here recently. (Gwaan and Krupo come to mind.)

Yes, that IS my excuse, but if you haven't noticed, I'm not the only gold star around here. Please, if you want to discard it, go right ahead. I figured that at least I'll be around to keep the link active, not to mention you can actually FIND my video.

Dupes need to be discarded.

I killed your dupe karaidl, I edited the tags on the other one to make it easier to find. Silvercord is right, dupes need to be discarded.

Cool, fine by me. Thank you for being civil.

What about dead or discarded dupes? Foe example I just posted "Kenny Rogers Host Jackass" Because whoever had posted it before. (And I remember it being posted.) Was MIA and to top it off I couldn't even find the vid. So I simply reposed because it was nowhere to be found. Oh and one more thing, how come I'm still stuck with a bronze star? I've even got my posts above 25 again so what's siftbots deal?

I don't agree with the searching before posting.

If the original poster put in the correct tags, and the new poster does too, the video WILL show up.

If the original poster did a bad work, why should I waste my time for it? I go on posting and if it's a dupe someone will notice.

searching before posting should be a standard practice. OR the possible-dupe-list should show more than 5.

search for a kitten vid... see if you get 'em all in the dupe list... go ahead...

that being said, i DO wholly believe in proper tagging. 1 or 2 targeted searches should find the dupe, if it exists. going beyond that shouldn't be required.

community tagging never works reliably, good titles and crediting the people who made or appear in the video is more useful. also maybe some way to automatically include the title as written in youtube etc and check against that?