>> ^JAPR:
This is supposed to be funny? I didn't get a single laugh out of it.

Dude...what's not to find funny here? People are willing to do just about anything to become "internet famous" these days and it's true that even if a guy cuts off his on junk with pruning shears some idiot that just makes stupid faces is going to be more "internet famous" then him.

US should be guarding its Southern border like Mexico guards its southern border.

With a choice between electing corrupt Republicans or taxocrat marxists, it's still better to keep the weeds out before pruning.

>> ^djsunkid:
Another issue- region blocking makes pruning the sift for dead videos that much more difficult for those outside the states.

Actually...because these hosts are the legal copyright owners of the materiel these videos are far less likely to go dead in the first place.

Most of the deaded videos are that way because the video was killed by the host for violating copyright of the legal owner.

Another issue- region blocking makes pruning the sift for dead videos that much more difficult for those outside the states.

snowman. you do realize that you, yourself, have both an eia and a wtf clip, in your queue, right now? skydiving sift was bitchin' btw.

well, i've seen karaidl pruning many an eia tag away, for overuse. so, np there.

and, yeah. wtf is going to be at least a third of what people watch to watch, and pass around, so...

The house looked like it was in good condition - with pruned shrubs and everything. I wonder why they tore it down?

Jello in an MRE,
sandwich on the floor for free;
one for you one, one-two for meeeeeee......
bacon-garlic prune ice cream!

"A prune-size bit of tissue tucked under the frontal lobes, it controls gut feelings and habits; it's what drives a recovering smoker to yearn for the feel and taste of cigarettes. The "reward circuitry," a network of neurons at the core of the brain, also plays a role. Nicotine boosts the brain's levels of dopamine, the "feel good" neurotransmitter. Another, as yet unknown, chemical in tobacco smoke acts like an antidepressant, blocking an enzyme that breaks down dopamine. So smokers get a double dose of the stuff—and about half end up addicted, essentially, to their own brain chemicals.

Remove the nicotine, though, and the body can't maintain the high dopamine levels on its own. In the brain of a smoker who's trying to quit, receptors start "screaming," says Dr. Norman Edelman of the American Lung Association, "crying out to be satisfied." Smokers often say a cigarette calms them, but by the time they're addicted, the nicotine rush simply halts the first symptoms of withdrawal. "The addiction is why you're nervous in the first place," says Edelman. Longtime smokers also have to end a behavior that's "entrenched in their daily lives," says Corinne Husten, head of the CDC's Office of Smoking and Health. Add in the stresses of, say, running for president, and it's all too easy to slip.

It may seem drastic to call a smoker an "addict" but, says Chris Cartter, who runs QuitNet, the world's largest quit-smoking program, "a lot of doctors view this as on par with overcoming a heroin addiction." The withdrawal isn't as ugly, but it's not pretty, either: shortly after quitting, the typical longtime smoker becomes cranky, has trouble sleeping and making decisions, and gains weight. Usually, the first weeks are the worst, but for some people the symptoms can drag on for a year or more.

That's assuming, however, that the smoker is taking the cold-turkey approach, which there's little reason to do these days. Nicotine gum, approved in 1984, is the oldest anti-smoking aid. (Obama chews it throughout the day.) It's about as effective as the newer patches, inhalers and nasal sprays, all of which placate those screaming receptors without being addictive themselves. Other options include Zyban, which is also marketed as an antidepressant, and Chantix, introduced last year, which eases withdrawal and blocks nicotine's effects."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17193908/site/newsweek/

77 comments??????? WTF!

The problem is the bi-modal distribution of videos. You need to more quickly prune those crappy videos which will never escape, and leave room for good videos to be spread out instead of all them with 8 votes.

I would like to start seeing more statistics on queue videos, ie. Time based (# of submissions / hr), (# of total votes on all queue videos / hr), (% breakdown of queue submissions .. ie. % that get 1,2,3..10 votes after 24 hrs, 36 hrs, 48 hrs)

I have said from day one that scalability of this site will be a problem. You can't limit the number of front page videos per day. The queue just breaks down at some point (200 queued videos to vote on), So you need to firewall the front page with a "hot" videos or a secondary queue. If you consider the Categories page, then the number of new videos isn't overwhleming. Only when you look at ALL.

(BTW, The Channels page needs a Misc. for videos NOT in any category)

<inserts clip, loads and places muzzle onto apewarfares prune like head>

<pulls trigger>

*BANG

Ironically, the Oscars were never meant to be taken seriously - the actors of the old studio days thought it absurd to reward themselves for making millions of dollars ("here's a medal/trophy for being a rich entertainer") - my source on this is the book "Who the Hell's in it", by Peter Bogdanovich.

Of course, it has since spiralled out of control, as have so many things.

Please note that, as I was careful to point out with the first and third paragraphs, the declaration isn't meant to be a dig at you, but a policy for future postings; if anything, it's only a coincidence we chose your posting as the moment to make the announcement. You can, if you so chose, feel honoured at the minor drama of being in the middle of a policy announcement.

Also, please note that people "favorite" posts so they can receive responses by e-mail telling them a new comment has been posted. Do not interpret a "favorite" as a thumbs up nor a thumbs down - the Sifter primarily wants to keep track of the conversation (which they would otherwise forget about unless they bookmark it in some other way).

Favorite means, essentially "bookmark", but it's given a nicer sounding term (which, not completely coincidentally, is identical to the term give for bookmarks in Internet Explorer).

Others have made this mistake in the past, and I'm half-assedly working on an FAQ to keep little bits of trivia and Sift etiquette straight to help newcomers avoid embarassing misunderstandings.

For the record, I favorite many Sift Talk posts, and it's invariably to follow the discussion - when some topics grow obsolete I try to prune my favorites list down to keep it manageable in size. My "personal favs" can be found, however, in this playlist: http://www.videosift.com/playlist/Krupo/All-time-greatest

Reposting video originally submitted but pruned-from-queue by rickegee.

And Viacom keeps pruning all of the serious balls videos.

Having reviewed some of the commenting and ip logs it looks like your previous videos were buoyed from the depths with spurious accounts. We are going to leave the videos up until sometime Monday as an example at which point they will all face an ignominious death. The extra accounts have already been pruned.

lol bam bam is sexual cky ect just funny. but yah its true if he died been a prune then people be like oh well servs him right lolz i guess he just waists all the milions he has but still its funny to watch.