*dead

It's always been like that. Yeah, it sucks on a promote. And maybe message the user? Ya know, talk to them?

Yeah, I've never quite understood why unsifted/PQed videos can't be declared dead. Seems like a pretty obvious change for the next sift upgrade, unless there's some obvious reason that I'm just not thinking of.

Time to bring @dag and @lucky760 about this issue.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I think the idea is that a post shouldn't be marked "dead" if it's not yet "live" as a published post - ie it's still in a state where if it doesn't work, it won't get published and the submitter should just edit it to fix it.

Clearly the solution is a *limbo invocation.

>> ^dag:

I think the idea is that a post shouldn't be marked "dead" if it's not yet "live" as a published post - ie it's still in a state where if it doesn't work, it won't get published and the submitter should just edit it to fix it.


Dag knows all. I'd listen to him.

>> ^dag:

I think the idea is that a post shouldn't be marked "dead" if it's not yet "live" as a published post - ie it's still in a state where if it doesn't work, it won't get published and the submitter should just edit it to fix it.


That makes sense for videos that have just been submitted, but for PQed videos (which are essentially like sifted videos with less votes, since they come up in searches), you really should be able to declare them *dead -- especially since with older PQed videos, the original submitter may not still be active on the site.

You can dead PQ videos. This was a request I asked for a while back and it was implemented. I use it quite often. This video is a good example: http://videosift.com/video/Earthquake-at-the-MLB-station

Never made it up to sifted status, and I marked it dead three times so far.

>> ^Sarzy:

>> ^dag:
I think the idea is that a post shouldn't be marked "dead" if it's not yet "live" as a published post - ie it's still in a state where if it doesn't work, it won't get published and the submitter should just edit it to fix it.

That makes sense for videos that have just been submitted, but for PQed videos (which are essentially like sifted videos with less votes, since they come up in searches), you really should be able to declare them dead -- especially since with older PQed videos, the original submitter may not still be active on the site.

>> ^Stingray:

You can dead PQ videos. This was a request I asked for a while back and it was implemented. I use it quite often. This video is a good example: http://videosift.com/video/Earthquake-at-the-MLB-station
Never made it up to sifted status, and I marked it dead three times so far.
>> ^Sarzy:
>> ^dag:
I think the idea is that a post shouldn't be marked "dead" if it's not yet "live" as a published post - ie it's still in a state where if it doesn't work, it won't get published and the submitter should just edit it to fix it.

That makes sense for videos that have just been submitted, but for PQed videos (which are essentially like sifted videos with less votes, since they come up in searches), you really should be able to declare them dead -- especially since with older PQed videos, the original submitter may not still be active on the site.



Weird, I wonder why Siftbot denies me with "Only published or personal queue videos may be flagged dead - ignoring dead request by ant."

Videos that are still in unsifted status (not personal queue) receive that message. Same goes for a PQ video that gets promoted... it goes back to unsifted status.

>> ^ant:

>> ^Stingray:
You can dead PQ videos. This was a request I asked for a while back and it was implemented. I use it quite often. This video is a good example: http://videosift.com/video/Earthquake-at-the-MLB-station
Never made it up to sifted status, and I marked it dead three times so far.
>> ^Sarzy:
>> ^dag:
I think the idea is that a post shouldn't be marked "dead" if it's not yet "live" as a published post - ie it's still in a state where if it doesn't work, it won't get published and the submitter should just edit it to fix it.

That makes sense for videos that have just been submitted, but for PQed videos (which are essentially like sifted videos with less votes, since they come up in searches), you really should be able to declare them dead -- especially since with older PQed videos, the original submitter may not still be active on the site.


Weird, I wonder why Siftbot denies me with "Only published or personal queue videos may be flagged dead - ignoring dead request by ant."