You have to speak up; I can't hear you over the block.

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^I'm blocking your comments, effective immediately.

I think this is the highest complement ive been paid on VS

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
^I'm blocking your comments, effective immediately.

I think this is the highest complement ive been paid on VS

I remember how in my early lurking/sifting days I kept finding all these wonderful eclectic videos you posted (and this co-inspired me to post on VideoSift and sift what I like) and I still have to see quite a few of them. I already know I could almost instantly upvote your whole catalogue:) (but I stick to the VS-principle of first having to see the video before upvoting: this also leaves me some treasure left to explore on an almost daily basis..)
So keep expanding your catalogue: feed the obscure, to complement the more common, your voice is heard and will be heard (even though the sift's growing).
Cheers/mille grazie!

^That's one of the best complements a video can get

The sport is young enough that people are still figuring out where the boundaries are of what you can do in a fight that has almost no rules.

Yes, it's still the same as 3 months ago..
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Video-tag-cloud-a-quantitativequalitative-reseach
Only we now do have some new tags:
edit:
New tags in the cloud:
obama, 00s, death, dancing, election, president, race
These disappeared:
canada, of, standup, soccer, hiphop, christmas, ?

PS1: did someone eliminate the soccer tag by replacing it with football?
PS2: the disappearance of standup, canada, hiphop is a good thing as these words are covered by channels.
PS3: so is the disappearance of "of". "The" remains still..
PS4: christmas will return in the cloud, just check here:
http://www.isitchristmas.com/
PS5: clearly a lot of presidential candidate videos lately
PS6: "death" complements "live"
PS7: we need a * dance channel, also because we're tagging videos with both dancing and dance

In looking a the comments on the YouTube page for this video, I see a comment by a DanielAdoff that is thanking a commentor for a complement. I would assume that DanielAdoff (YouTube screen name) = Dadoff (VideoSift screen name)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwE2TXkGuIU

DanielAdoff has no videos on his YouTube page:

http://www.youtube.com/user/DanielAdoff

The channel this video comes from has the following description of its ensemble comic group:

"Set in San Luis Obispo, California, a group of friends met in high school and instantly hit their comedic puberty with their satiric, yet profound movies dealing with such teenage problems as betrayal, murder, justice, time machines, the women who boldly love them, and the demons that dwell within their very own souls. Get ready to laugh...maybe."

http://www.youtube.com/Improvtopia

I'll let the rest of you continue the sleuthing. It's late . . . %)

oh, and now we're at it,
-a "short" (under 30 seconds) box to complement "long" (over 10 minutes)
-Personal Top Channels and Overal Top Channels should display more than 10 channels as we now have many more channels..

I best tread carefully, lest my words be transmuted into obscure porn references.

But a *short would be good to complement the *long (not that the size infers anything about the quality, ladies).

I like the short (below 30 seconds?) idea, to complement long. It should be a standard box, like long, that one can tick in case of shortness. Not a short channel, that would be inconsistent.

I appreciate the complement. I hope the guy makes some more videos.

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Possibly the best video I've ever seen here.

yeah, i was just going to complement you.
the way your title frames this issue, was incredibly open-minded.

Barack Obama vs. Pennsylvania

can't wait to see which of them wins!

>> ^thesnipe:
Since you've all seemed to sit back and roll a joint as the roast is winding down, I'll post my semisedated response, although you poor saps were hoping I smoked some (mycroftholmz), it's one of the few things that makes me sick, nice try to fill out the whole hippy vibe but everyone know what happens when you assume....
Wow where do I begin. So much material and information overload. I guess first off, does everyone in this roast have ADD? I can't process what goes through those small small minds but it must be "ooooo blue link click bahaha snipe has long hair" and somehow that's about it. I can't say I'm surprised when at the moment the video at the top this week is a gamers review series that's been going on for months.
I started to get shrills when blankfist posted something about how I use dungeons and dragons, something with a cup and a warlock in which I had no idea what in the hell he was saying. Of course it goes to reflect upon the rest of the roast team that blankfist's comment was highest voted of this roast so far.
Gorgonheap really hit it on the head though, with one scary misperception, he mentioned Hannah Montana, which shows me which music circle is he's floating in nowadays.
Jonny, you commented about how I'd like to fuck anyone that moves, I'm not sure if I should laugh or burst your bubble and reject your advances now. Sorry mate but I don't think anyone would attempt that experience.
Zeph barely hit home on the anime subject but plowed the way to a very strange and disturbing level when other posted a face of me on the wii chicks body, complementing Inuyasha with my head on kagome's face. It seems as if schmawy and a couple others have a bit too much time staring at my pictures via photoshop.
Speaking of photoshop, MG, you may want to see that military shrink after all. Granted the mastery of photoshop to make me really look like I have boobs is one thing, but it carries all kinda of baggage that may be best confined to a place with padded walls. As blankfist mentioned I also think you may want to consider a bit of help when it comes to finding colonoscopy videos.
I do work part time and as inspired by what CaptWillard told me, these comments come from a collection of crew cut wearing 9-5ers who lack the experience of anything more thrilling than "hey did you read the latest Dilbert parody?". That must make your day.
All in all I laughed my ass of for the past two days. kudos for choggie, swampy and dotdude for keeping it hilarious and anyone else I missed. Many thanks for Captwillard for MCing this affair. It was a hell of a roast, and fortunately for you roasters you won't have to strain those peabrains of yours until the next roast when I can join back on the other roasting end.

Have you ever waited in excited anticipation for a lit firework to work its century old magic only to have it fizzle out a lifeless, soggy, dud?

Thanks for the blueballs...

Since you've all seemed to sit back and roll a joint as the roast is winding down, I'll post my semisedated response, although you poor saps were hoping I smoked some (mycroftholmz), it's one of the few things that makes me sick, nice try to fill out the whole hippy vibe but everyone know what happens when you assume....

Wow where do I begin. So much material and information overload. I guess first off, does everyone in this roast have ADD? I can't process what goes through those small small minds but it must be "ooooo blue link *click* bahaha snipe has long hair" and somehow that's about it. I can't say I'm surprised when at the moment the video at the top this week is a gamers review series that's been going on for months.

I started to get shrills when blankfist posted something about how I use dungeons and dragons, something with a cup and a warlock in which I had no idea what in the hell he was saying. Of course it goes to reflect upon the rest of the roast team that blankfist's comment was highest voted of this roast so far.

Gorgonheap really hit it on the head though, with one scary misperception, he mentioned Hannah Montana, which shows me which music circle is he's floating in nowadays.

Jonny, you commented about how I'd like to fuck anyone that moves, I'm not sure if I should laugh or burst your bubble and reject your advances now. Sorry mate but I don't think anyone would attempt that experience.

Zeph barely hit home on the anime subject but plowed the way to a very strange and disturbing level when other posted a face of me on the wii chicks body, complementing Inuyasha with my head on kagome's face. It seems as if schmawy and a couple others have a bit too much time staring at my pictures via photoshop.

Speaking of photoshop, MG, you may want to see that military shrink after all. Granted the mastery of photoshop to make me really look like I have boobs is one thing, but it carries all kinda of baggage that may be best confined to a place with padded walls. As blankfist mentioned I also think you may want to consider a bit of help when it comes to finding colonoscopy videos.

I do work part time and as inspired by what CaptWillard told me, these comments come from a collection of crew cut wearing 9-5ers who lack the experience of anything more thrilling than "hey did you read the latest Dilbert parody?". That must make your day.

All in all I laughed my ass of for the past two days. kudos for choggie, swampy and dotdude for keeping it hilarious and anyone else I missed. Many thanks for Captwillard for MCing this affair. It was a hell of a roast, and fortunately for you roasters you won't have to strain those peabrains of yours until the next roast when I can join back on the other roasting end.

There's a sort of ridiculous neomccarthyism against acknowledging differences in average traits between different groups of people. One must simply take it on faith that all people are created equal and everything else is inculcated by the environment. It doesn't take anything more than a cursory look at nature to disprove this politically-correct worldview. Environment can affect anything about a person, but so can genes, and genes vary. We are the sum of our biochemical components. Studies of identical twins separated at birth and raised in different environments have found strong correlations for IQ, height, personality, and other characteristics. Differences in average test scores among various groups do not disappear when you control for parental socioeconomic status, but the bell curves are mostly overlapping.

Of course Hitch is a provocateur. But it is a ploy to get you to actually think about taboo subjects instead of riding the politically correct bandwagon with your fingers stuffed firmly in your ears.

To the Jewish person who was offended, Hitch is of jewish descent, and the statement that funny women were generally "jews or dykes or both" was obviously not some kind of swipe at jews or lesbians but an observation. If anything it was a complement to Jews. Sarah Silverman is Jewish and manly. Roseanne is jewish and manly. Ellen is a lesbian. How many other female comedians have/had their own TV show?

G, the dark and trippy channel-ideas fall into my Dreamtrip 2.0 playlist
http://www.videosift.com/playlists/Eklek/Dreamtrip-20
An indie film channel could complement the cinema channel, but indie film is also cinema I think.

(last edit on July 4 2008)
These channels I think are missing on Videosift:
-*homme (to complement femme/sexuality/gay)
-"animals behaving like humans" (and vice versa;) ) channel
-usa, japan(orama), france, spain, italy, germany, russia, china, india, mexico etc. (to complement british/canada)
-*africa, europe, *latin (to complement asia, downunder)
-aquatic
-90s, 00s (to complement vintage/80s/future)
-celebrity/gossip/tabloid/sensational (to complement lies)
-*lectures/presentations/talks
-*energy, agriculture, *health, *education, law
-*dance, fashion, theatre, comics, architecture, design (to complement art/cinema/(live)music/shortfilms/obscure)
-*electronic(a) (for electronic music, to complement rocknroll/wildwestshow/jazzblues/bravo)
-crime, romance (to complement mystery/comedy/horror/wildwestshow/grindhouse)
-mash-up, fan videos (to complement meme)
-*melancholy/drama (to supplement happy/dark/fear)
-pranks (to complement standup/parody)

*=the ones I think are most needed