Transferring my comment from the dupe:

I'm not saying torture hasn't happened there. But let me get this guy's story straight. The big confession .. the revelation of torture that lands him on Rachel Maddow ..

A prisoner (alleged terrorist) was ordered several times through an interpreter to stop moving, and he did, but when your partner goes to unlock his cuffs the prisoner lunges at you and you face plant him. That's torture? I'd call that healthy human instinct. Who here wouldn't do that? What would you do? Let the prisoner lunge at you and hope for the best? He had some some scratches and bruises the next day? Well, that's to be expected when you lunge at a guard and get tackled to the ground.

Let's move on to the other "torture". A medic was making his rounds to provide care and feed Ensure to the prisoners who were malnourished. Of course this is a travesty and not in keeping with the usual rusty blade to saw off your head treatment and then the dragging of your dead body through town that our guys get .. but hey .. that's the U.S.A. for ya.

So the medic is trying to feed this ungrateful prick but instead it winds up spilling everywhere because this scumbag won't drink it. So he "struck him one time in the side of face". Wow. Well that is just awful.
Was it wrong? Sure .. but not quite "torture".

Maybe if he was water boarded with Ensure there would be something to talk about.

I'm not saying torture hasn't happened there. But let me get this guy's story straight. The big confession .. the revelation of torture that lands him on Rachel Maddow ..

A prisoner (alleged terrorist) was ordered several times through an interpreter to stop moving, and he did, but when your partner goes to unlock his cuffs the prisoner lunges at you and you face plant him. That's torture? I'd call that healthy human instinct. Who here wouldn't do that? What would you do? Let the prisoner lunge at you and hope for the best? He had some some scratches and bruises the next day? Well, that's to be expected when you lunge at a guard and get tackled to the ground.

Let's move on to the other "torture". A medic was making his rounds to provide care and feed Ensure to the prisoners who were malnourished. Of course this is a travesty and not in keeping with the usual rusty blade to saw off your head treatment and then the dragging of your dead body through town that our guys get .. but hey .. that's the U.S.A. for ya.

So the medic is trying to feed this ungrateful prick but instead it winds up spilling everywhere because this scumbag won't drink it. So he "struck him one time in the side of face". Wow. Well that is just awful.
Was it wrong? Sure .. but not quite "torture".

Maybe if he was water boarded with Ensure there would be something to talk about.

>> ^MINK:
The underlying problem is that people sift stuff for popularity, rather than from their love of sharing video. The incentive system here is not conducive to "good" sifting. We've all posted crap we wouldn't normally post but we know it's going to get upvotes, and we've all suppressed good stuff that isn't worth sifting because it's so obscure, or been disheartened when something super interesting is buried under a pile of lolcats. Do people really love lolcats this much? or is it partly because we made a biased reward scheme specifically for short videos that make you smile?


What incentive system would work better? I'm struggling to think of one that doesn't have inherent flaws.

I enjoy seeing the best videos in catsanddogs to take a populist channel but inevitably we accept they are going to crowd out obscure music videos for example. At this point it depends on your tastes as to whether that is a problem or not. Some would say you're getting the best of all kinds of video content and Videosift is just doing fine.

But if the site is too populist it must come down to the channels that are allowed. Those are the primary filters and encourage certain kind of content. If Videosift actively discouraged submissions of cats and people face-planting then I'm sure the place would look alot different. That not being the case you can start to use your downvote as Farhad says but this feels like playing whack-a-mole.

My only suggestion is that there could be a place (something better than Beggar's Canyon) that bridges the gap between the obscurity of personal queues and the promotion of videos back to the unsifted listing. How about a Recommended Gems page where channel owners can put stuff on a weekly basis? I don't know how such content would be organised exactly but it should be trivial to switch between channels and perhaps it would be less confusing if the page *didn't* load up the channel subdomain.

FS U IDoit camra man how can you not film the face during a face plant

Aw man, I was looking forward to some quality face plants, this just bummed the shit out of me.

There should be no consequences for anything!

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by Krupo.

Correct Lurch, *dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Icy-Face-Plant

Tags for this video have been changed from 'pond, ice, face, plant, ouch' to 'pond, ice, face, plant, ouch, Russia, Russian, polar bear club, ice, schadenfreude' - edited by Krupo

Dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Icy-Face-Plant

This is so so bad...he has really done himself in, real serious injuries!

*terrible idea, what, what was he thinking?! *dark

I will hold my vote on this one though...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Ridiculous-Face-plant-off-a-vending-machine
This one is...is that the same guy?

John, John Lemming?!

Dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Icy-Face-Plant

I had to pause it right after the first crash because I was laughing so hard it hurt. omg the way he just gets flattened! LOL ugh and the great crash sound too.
"Through a system of leverage advantage" I will now face plant into the ground for your amusement.

I'm doing my best to get a bit high culture through the sift gates! If only I could find a cat playing the violin and then face-planting

In reply to this comment by maatc:
Thanks!

In reply to this comment by Deano:
*promote

Tags for this video have been changed from 'ouch, blooper, accident, face plant, montage' to 'ouch, blooper, accident, face plant, montage, Rockin Robbin' - edited by MarineGunrock

Tags for this video have been changed from 'ouch, blooper, accident, face plant' to 'ouch, blooper, accident, face plant, montage' - edited by Deano