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Awarding dotdude with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by choggie.

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

We have this in the upper sidebar:

Sift Talk is a discussion area for our members. Feel free to post and respond to issues about VideoSift, our community, or online videos in the news.

But you are right - it says what to post, not what not to.

So then, my post from a few days ago, the one where flagging inappropriate would have been the route to take instead of discarding it(http://www.videosift.com/talk/A-Q-for-Those-Preoccupied-With-The-Illusion-of-Democracy#comment-207824)
has been ignored because of some confrontation issue? The combination of some past strained-rapport, combined with a sacred subject, seasoned with expletives?

Tenacity is the wet-nurse, of enlightenment.

Using the Sift Talk forums for general discussion concerning VS or related topics is fine, but your post choogie was more like a blog/rant. I found it inappropriate. I think Theo did the right thing by calling a discard.

It was a post submitted to initiate discussion. Had I used verbiage, that did not illicit a reaction to the expletives used, instead of the semantics of the observation, it would probably still be there, with an intelligent stream below......(by the way, another sifter poited out, that the history of presidents in this country, reads like a who's who, at a family reunion).

This was a case, of people reacting to a set of arranged words, that at least one sifter, in his/her emotional and perception bound, symbol-addicted state, who impulsively acted, unilaterally, to stroke their own cuke.

My point? Well, the point was to discuss the bullshit that is, politics in the USA, as I see it. The effect, was to bring the knee-jerked out in the open, and perhaps in doing so, we have all learned a bit. That words, are powerful, and monkeys are predictable.

And by the way, uhhhh, isn't the point of assigning specific discussion, regarding a channel, to that channel's discussion forum, a way to keep the main sift talk page, for, as you stated above gorgonheap, "general discussion concerning VS or related topics?"

Then there's joedirt's little sacred cow, election 2008, which I for one, wish would be that last of this exercise in a nation's circle-jerking, ineffectual, business SNAFU'ed as usual.

But, who has the time to reform a completely fucked government, when there are all these toys to buy, and all these distractions to keep our jellied, aspic shrouded minds, busy?

Choggie, how about a "Rants", "Soapbox", "Anything Goes", or "None of the Above" channel?

Dag, one of my wishes for VS would be a more robust discussion forum where SiftTalk would be just one of many topics listed on a single, main comments page. Or, maybe all the channel comments sections listed on a single page with expandable topics under each, or... I don't know. I understand the desire for establishing channels as online communities. I just think more robust discussion areas for each of these communities would encourage that. Currently, it seems overly difficult to track any channel discussions without checking each channel. Then again, wouldn't want a system that diluted any comments/discussions for any particular video. Of course, videos could also be sorted by "most recent comments" or "most comments" or something. Anyway, just thinking out loud (so to speak).

We will probably need some clarification about Channel SiftTalk posts. . . since they are more geared to a "topic" of a channel.

With all the channels we have, would there be some way to have some kind of "Hot Channel SiftTalk" that shows up on this page . . . ones with lots of posts. I'm just tossing that in for discussion.