Yes, users should lose their published posts. Consider this - If they didn't, what's the motivation for repairing dead links?

I think repairing dead link is a motivation for repairing dead links.
But I'm just crazy that way.

Well then you're good and honest, Bluecliff, but what about everyone else?

they should be good and honest too.

If only we could make them...

Speaking of honesty, this wouldn't be such a problem for some users if people would take two damn seconds of their time to tell the user that their video is dead.

you want to engineer people?!
You bastard!
Behind that shallow exterior there obviously lies a small deranged person.

But seriously - yes, that would be polite and good.

You may have had a silver star upon your return, had it not been for the herniated efforts of one,eric3579, look to he, the closet opener, the stalwart with time to burn, for burning bright bronze yer silver star......now, ain't it better that yer star is truly earned and not sleaziliy gained by posteing tripe that will soon die????...Like anything related to Michael Whore's new film, "CRAPPO"??
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Times-up-on-dead-lists
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Dead-Video-play-list

here, perhaps this small thing I can do towards p.pp.p.ppumping up yer ego and monniker....back to silver
*quality

I abuse that term loosely....

Gold Star member choggie has awarded gorgonheap one published post for this quality Sift Talk contribution.

Aw shucks Choogie, Your such a pal. Ok I've been thinking about this a lot. And by that I mean for a couple seconds now. Demoting is probably for the best. Course I was in the middle of India and only checked my e-mail every two weeks but for slackers who up a take off. It's probably the best way for keeping the sift clean and current.

More power to yer India gig, so many things for you perhaps to not dig, about going there, all having to do with it NOT, being on holiday....

What if they can't fix the link because there are no other links to it? That's hardly their fault. By removing their points for events outside of their control, it's tantamount to saying "you never contributed", even though they did. People were still able to watch and enjoy the video while it was active, which should be reflected in the points awarded for their participation.

In reply to your comment:
“Yes, users should lose their published posts. Consider this - If they didn't, what's the motivation for repairing dead links?”

Nice idea, but how do you suppose we'll enforce it? Are people just gonna promise they couldn't find it?

I Dunno, I think the recognition should still be noted. I had some posts that I could have reposted but had no way of doing due to my circumstances. I feel in a way that my contributions are forgotten. But then again there are a lot of people who are into the sift for a couple months then drop it. So I guess what the true question is, is this: What does a star (or Diamond) mean? Is it a way to rank people on their current preformance, or a way to mark their contributions throughout the years?

"What if they can't fix the link because there are no other links to it?"

"I had some posts that I could have reposted but had no way of doing due to my circumstances."

There are just too many exceptions we could make to this rule, so we don't make any. Dead is dead, no matter the reason.

Currently star rankings measure longetivity over anything else, but this will change in VS3, when we'll be able to see our dead videos, so they won't go unnoticed. That way, it will measure both current and past contribution.

This is Internet. Links goes bad. They need to be fixed or else they become useless.

Speaking of honesty, this wouldn't be such a problem for some users if people would take two damn seconds of their time to tell the user that their video is dead.

karaidl, i don't agree with you here.

why?

well, this is a SOFTWARE bug. When somebody calls a *dead, sift sends (or SHOULD send) an email to the poster. if he doesn't, it's either a bug in the sift or in the email provider.

having the *dead-er be requested of also PM-ing the poster would be a waste of time, and it's a stupid thing in the third millenium, when this kind of thing can be (and thus MUST be) automated.

Only published videos may be flagged dead (ignoring request by gold star member looris)

I never get any emails. I think I've only gotten three, and the last one was that the Sports Sift had a new video, like I cared. I always check the boxes asking if I want to receive emails on dead videos, but I never get them. And no, they're not in my spam box.

Karaidl, it's because you have an aol email.... ick, anyway we won't pay their guaranteed email delivery fee because its like 30 cents per email. There have been some other people reporting issues with it. My guess is that they have flagged us as spam mail.

Hmmm... might be time to start using Firefox full time and open up a Gmail. I take it I'm not worth 30 cents per email? Oh, I am SO going to Videobomb.

lol they wants you to pay to deliver mail for THEIR account? rotflmao.

AOL sucks, but I'm used to it. It's hard to break habits.

But it's oh so fun to find new ones. I remember the first time firefox and I meet. It was love at first sight.