After seeing Batman VR, I decided that after years of slumber, it was time to make a return!

Since I've been back, I've discovered a few things have changed during my absence. Such as how my "Dead" sprees can be seen in the "newest comments" and how the "embed code" replace had gone somewhere that I could only guess is reserved for the "Deadpool."

That said though, I do want to try my luck again here on videosift and see if I can catch up on old times. So fair forewarning to anyone ranked 1-69 (I'm shocked I'm at Rank 70 after all this time), if I start to get bored one of these days, you might get a couple of emails from Siftbot saying how a good chunk of your videos had died.

I like to think that I "Inspired" the "Grim Reaper" badge. But yeah... It is time to see if I can crack Top 50 and get to a rating over 1000!

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!

I don't get a notice when thumbnails are fixed, I do get a notice when times are fixed.

Thanks for cleaning up my pqueue. Maybe I'll get some of these sifted now, once I fix the vids!


In reply to this comment by ReverendTed:
Thanks!
I happen to be going through your Pqueue, so you might get a few deads in your feed. I ran through Zifnab's Zero Punctuation playlist a few days ago, and had a go at some of ant's videos yesterday.
Your Pqueue isn't as fun, though - most videos have times and thumbnails already.
(Just curious, do you get any sort of notification when someone adds a time or a thumbnail to one of your videos, or is it only when they're marked dead?)
In reply to this comment by bareboards2:
Glad to help you with your Grim Reaper badge.... most of those were mine!

Glad to help you with your Grim Reaper badge.... most of those were mine!

Thanks for the info. And congrats on the 99-level Grim Reaper badge!>> ^jonny:

I meant that the owner/submitter of a vid can use the dupeof command effectively no matter what - if it's killed, discarded, already had dupeof invoked on it, etc. I think that's the case anyway.
Recent Comments is a fun place to browse if you feel like reading more than watching.
[edit] - except when I'm on a dead spree. (I'd love to have a way to filter simple command comments like dead and length from the recent comment stream.)
In reply to this comment by messenger:
You had already "dupeofed" it. I could have "isduped" it, but killed it without thinking.
Also, curious: how did you find my comment an another user's profile about yet another user's video? I can't imagine you browse everyone's profile pages. Is there some kind of linkbank thing you followed?
In reply to this comment by jonny:
I think you can use "dupeof" on your own videos at any time, even if it's killed. Worth a shot anyway.
In reply to this comment by messenger:
Hey, I just accdientally killed my dupe Apache crash video before the votes could be transferred to the original one posted by marinara.
You wanna go upvote his?
http://videosift.com/video/AH-64-Apache-helicopter-crash-in-Sha
rana-Afghanistan
Thanks!

@CrushBug...

with a name like that, I am surprised you didn't get your Grim Reaper badge sooner.

Congrats!

Congratulations!

@Sarzy on your Level 1 Grim Reaper Badge.

2:07, who shows up but a low rent Grim Reaper....

Lilithia, Level 3 Grim Reaper badge for you. (Hope it is okay to use this vid for my unofficial badge awards.)

@critical_d, what a deadly Sifter you are. In the last couple of days .... levels 51-56. That is a buttload of dead videos, guy!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'grim reaper badge, congratulations' to 'grim reaper badge, congratulations, supershort' - edited by gwiz665

@ant, I know it has been three weeks, but congrats on your Grim Reaper badge....

Just a thought about the Dead command based Grim Reaper badge:

Granted, I don't have any working knowledge about how things are set up behind the scenes, but it seems as though the * dead command usually gets nullified either because the video never made it to 10 votes, or after someone fixes an embed and uses the * notdead command, more often than a video will actually go into the Dead Pool, even though the video was correctly identified as being dead at the time. Here's a personal example:

http://videosift.com/video/Compulsive-Whoreders-An-Intervention

So it seems as though there needs to be a distinction between whether a video was erroneously declared dead, as with "notdead" and when it was correctly identified as dead so as to give the potential Grim Reaper some credit. Perhaps a * fixed or something that would then allow both the Reaper and the fixer/Necromancer some credit.

If I understand things correctly (and admittedly I may not), as a Silver Star, I can declare things dead, but I can't actually do anything to fix it myself until it does go into the Dead Pool, which it probably won't even do. It's a game balance issue, but if there are going to be gaming elements, which I am whole heartedly in support of, it will need to be balanced.