Post some links that you found here and i will do what needs to be done.

we have been looking at reworking the dead system, i think letting bronze star and above members have dead powers is probably coming. We have also been talking about a dead queue, it is certainly becoming more of an issue as the site gets larger.

Well I'm glad to hear that your aware of it. It seems a shame to let some good videos go but with all the Colberts and Daily Shows being pulled from every single video hosting site it's left a signifigant body count on the sift. Gotta start digging graves sometime.

Thank god that the last two listed have decided to play the money game...the shits funny once, boring twice, and 3 times a clog on the server....good riddance!!!

*quality

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

So here are just a few of the links to vids that are dead. darksun I appreciate your willinges to help. If any other gold members are readig this please feel free to help clean out the sift. I would hope we could fix most of these but I realized that not all of them can be.

http://www.videosift.com/video/stephen-colbert-swallows-a-banana-and-totally-loses-it

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Daily-Show-Medias-use-of-the-question-mark

http://www.videosift.com/video/Simpsons-on-Conan

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-US-Defense-Budget-Explained-with-OREO-Cookies

http://www.videosift.com/video/Daily-Show-CNN-the-network-of-fearmongers

http://www.videosift.com/video/Jon-Stewart-desperate-soundbites-something-peculiar-about-Dubyas-behaviour-at-recent-press-conference

http://www.videosift.com/video/the-middle-east-its-not-a-crisis-its-an-opportunity

http://www.videosift.com/video/fungi-parasite-takes-over-the-minds-of-ants

I've deaded the above

nice ..bring out your dead. probably got a few skeletons in my own closet

Here is round 2.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Stephen-Colbert-gets-shot-by-Conan-OBrian

http://www.videosift.com/video/Jon-Stewart-on-the-Factor-Take-that-Oreilly

http://www.videosift.com/video/Daily-Show-John-Kerry-Losing-Elections-Hes-Not-Even-In

http://www.videosift.com/video/Best-Daily-Show-clip-ever-GW-Bush-Because-He-Says-So

http://www.videosift.com/video/Swearing-Celebrities

deaded

And a few more
http://www.videosift.com/video/Awesome-Mime-Routine

http://www.videosift.com/video/Who-would-be-dumb-enough-to-fall-for-the-Trojan-Horse-today

http://www.videosift.com/video/Day-old-Mandarin-Ducklings-Take-Their-1st-Jump

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Worlds-Most-Dangerous-Improv-Game

http://www.videosift.com/video/Daily-Show-John-Kerry-Losing-Elections-Hes-Not-Even-In

There's no programmatic way to detect deadness? Has anyone tried? (Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a PHP developer!)

Siftbot polling for deadness would be ideal.. prevent bit rot by detecting it quickly. Of course I have no idea how to do this.

Well I don't know how James has the site setup or how Siftbot works. So I'm going to make up some crap about maybe Siftbot could run checks on URL links every so often to see if they are still valid. So if I stumbled upon something brilliant then kuddos to me. If your more confused after reading this... Then I have no clue what I just said.

those vids are * deaded now, except the mime one which seems to be undead. grrr... i hate that mime routine..