Incidentally, some folks need to do some research about what "self-linking" is. I've posted many videos where I took a great scene from a classic film, clipped it from the original, encoded it, uploaded it to my YouTube account then posted it to the Sift. Are you suggesting that great movie clips can't be uploaded by fellow sifters, that this is somehow "egregious" self-linking?

Sorry Woland, but I don't understand how I broke the rules. If I see a good video I post it. Then I download a copy and upload it to my YouTube account and eventually update the link to point to a copy I have control of. This isn't self-promotion since I'm *intentionally* hiding my YouTube account. If I'm breaking the rules I'll happily accept the censure -- I haven't read the rules in the past few days -- but I really don't see how this is bad behaviour. Please explain how I've been "called out".

Hi again lilitu, I see you responded again before I posted.

As a new Sifter myself, I think, but can't tell for sure, that there's been some history of self-linking transgressions that have solidified VideoSift's stance on the self-linking rule, and you have self-linked egregiously. You probably didn't intend it, but you did break the self-link rule, and it's pretty clear that the consequence is banning.

Your new tone is going to get you a lot farther in terms of discussing this, and possibly being welcomed back, but I think the rules are pretty clear. Good luck.

> We take our site seriously. A dedicated community is what makes it great. I don't understand why you would have a problem with that.

Karaidl, you're a wonderful sifter and I love you dearly, but some very venemous and slanderous things were said in this thread just because someone did things different than the rest. This smelled a lot more to me like witch-burning than dedication.

You folks should be ashamed. I upload local copies of all my vids to YouTube so that I never have to have links go *dead. I intentionally make the description and tags vague so they can't be found in a search and I won't get a takedown. Hence the low YT views. I'm shocked that this is interpreted as some sort of conspiracy. It's just smart sifting, sorry you all aren't doing it too. Ppl need a new passtime.

*discard

Wonderful. Thanks so much for posting ant, I learned so much from this vid.

Oh ant, keep wishing.

I feel guilty submitting this since a fellow sifter had it expire in the queue only a few days ago, but the original had several minutes of unrelated footage at the end of the video. This was my attempt to make the video shorter and more engaging, I'm only submitting because the original poster didn't re-submit this version.

Well of course it's just for laughs, cops need laughs too.

I don't need luck, I have black arts. Or was it ants? Well, whatever, I've got both.

Some may consider this a dupe since both the Ride of the Valkyries and Napalm clips have already been promoted to the front page, but I think they have to go together. Feel free to downvote if you disagree. Oh, and the other clips have a funky stretched-for-TV aspect ratio. This one is original widescreen.

If this happened to me I would stop my car, drive back and forth over the spot a few times, and yell "let's see you punks play tug-of-war now!".