Marine, you really aren't reading at all before you type, are you?

Look at the freaking post.

So I finally find a video that not only is not on the sift, but not even on YouTube yet, and I think the community will love it. I posted it to my own YouTube account, but Senior Roe has informed me that is bad form to sift something from one's own account. So I'm posting here in the hopes some kind soul will upload it to theirs so I can sift it, or at the very least get some applaud points so I can get this ugly P off my name.

If I was going to self-link, then after uploading the video to my YouTube account, I would have sifted it. I knew that was bad form, and James (whom I've known since we were in high school together) suggested I post it to Sift Talk instead, in case someone was willing to either A) post it to their YouTube account, allowing me to sift it without self linking or B) just get some applaud points.


Seriously, you're tilting at windmills.

Marine: See above. Gorgon does not practice what he preaches, unfortunately. And there are obviously many many people not abiding by the rules set forth in the FAQ (which I have read), hence the necessity for me to defend myself with the same ammunition.

If you are going to make some sort of point here, please do it quickly. If the idea is to apply to rules set forth in that article of the FAQ to members here, you can start with your buddy Gorgonheap.

Cheers.

edit: In case you are wondering why Gorgonheap has a hard-on for me, take a few shots of whiskey and see if you can slog your way all the way through this thread. All shall be revealed.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Jesus-Loves-You-conditionally

A personal attack is never warranted, eh Gorgon?

"I'm sorry you were neglected as a kid or whatever it was that made you so angry about life."- Gorgonheap

What was that awesome little joke you had earlier in this thread?

*cough* hypocrite *cough*

I see what you did there.

Choggie, be nice! We don't want to lose newbies.

Way to welcome the new folks, choggie.

You're right. I must be the only one seeing it.

1. Personal insults and attacks are most certainly warranted when one is attacked first. Again, I challenge you to find a situation in which I have invoked ad hominem without being provoked. Edit: And saying it isn't tolerated is just ludicrous. It's most certainly tolerated, as I've personally experienced, and have responded in kind. /edit

2. Read my post again. This is not, and never was, about self-posting.

3. Outright insults and subtle insults are the same thing. Browbeating less visible users with threats is not the sort of behavior anyone should engage in, I am sure you will agree.

1. Read my post again. I posted here instead of self-posting, because I understood it to be bad form.

2. I respond to other members with the same modicum of respect with which they address me. I challenge you to find an instance in which that is not true.

3. Choggie is a senior troll. I've been here long enough to understand that. When his first foray is to threaten banning for all newbies, and then to troll my music video with nonsense, he gets treated the same he treats others. See number 2.

It's a shame they re-used the music from the FCC song, but still wonderful.

Oh Gorgon, still sore about getting called on making up statistics?

You're right. I'm unfriendly to ignorance, whether that be in the form of religious wingnuts or long-time entrenched trolls (read:choggie) who think they can browbeat people into submission with banning threats and glib dismissals.

If you don't like that attitude, tough. But it's a far sight better than some of the YouTube-y drivel on so many of these videos.

A crotchety and irritable advocate of sensible discourse is an advocate nonetheless. Unless you are intolerant.

Haha, and a downvote. You're such a tool, choggie.

Get bent.

Are you blind?

It's one person, dude. Not a "they".

And your "objective critique" amounted to calling the fan who made the video a "lazy pasty geek".

Why don't you get over yourself for a few seconds and offer something....you know......that makes sense? Or is relevant at all?

more quality from choggie. /yawn

your powers of observation astound as always.

Haha, you have nothing better to do than to troll this post AND the music video I sifted. Wow, dude. You're a special kind of loser. I'm outta here.

Choggie, choggie, choggie....I knew there was a reason I lurked this long. Back to the shell.

Brad Sucks goes by the name frenetic over on MetaFilter. Recently the community was informed of his influence on the author William Gibson and his recent book Spook County in this MetaTalk thread.

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/14846/no-fans-my-ass

I went with the music video route. Metafilter's own frenetic is the talent behind Brad Sucks. Check it out.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Brad-Sucks-Making-Me-Nervous